At Rally, News of Carroll Gardens Downzoning Progress
About 50 people (and one well-dressed canine) showed at Borough Hall this morning to support the drive to downzone Carroll Gardens. Council Member Bill de Blasio organized the rally, and he had some big news to share: The Department of City Planning has officially committed to studying a downzoning of the neighborhood. The news comes…
About 50 people (and one well-dressed canine) showed at Borough Hall this morning to support the drive to downzone Carroll Gardens. Council Member Bill de Blasio organized the rally, and he had some big news to share: The Department of City Planning has officially committed to studying a downzoning of the neighborhood. The news comes hot on the heels of Planning’s announcement that it would initiate a a zoning text amendment to impose height limitations on 1st through 4th Place. De Blasio is also pushing for the city to impose building height limitations of 50 feet while the downzoning is studied. We want to limit heights until a legal downzoning goes through, de Blasio said at the rally. Representatives of Assemblywoman Nydia Velazquez and Assemblywoman Joan Millman also spoke in support of the downzoning, as did Gary Reilly of the Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association. What attracts people to the neighborhood is its low scale, said Reilly. We want to prevent Carroll Gardens from becoming the next Williamsburg, with developers throwing up buildings willy-nilly. De Blasio noted that downzonings typically take a year to a year and a half to push through, and time is of the essence in terms of downzoning Carroll Gardens since the clock is ticking on the current administration’s term.
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to 3:41 – you should be more worried about how your daughter is going to afford a apartment in a luxury condo hi-rise!
If you are worried about the future then you should be listening better.The idea is not anti -development it is anti- out of context development!
If someone built a 50ft building with affordable housing units in it- that would be a good thing!
I live in this neighborhood and strongly oppose the downzoning. None of these people are renters. I want my daughter to be able to stay in her grandparents neighborhood. All the downzoning will do is drive up rents and drive down property values and tax receipts. Plus, it makes transit less efficient at the same time the same people want more F service. Hopefully City Planning will care enough about the city as a whole to reject this NIMBY jihad.
What a great nabe Carroll Gardens is and good for the people who live there to get this done. Great Job Carroll Gardens.
My it seems like the nimbys are really losing control of this board.
I have to say, the Carroll Gardens people I think have finally awoken the masses to the truth of what anti-development people are all about.
It was only a matter of time honest goals like historical preservation would be perverted by insular conservatives. Now, maybe we’ll have a real building boom 1920s style! Let the city rise UP!!!
I wonder which pols are courageous enough to pander. Besides Councilman de Blah Blah, I see representatives of Yvette Clarke, Marty Markowitz, Martin Connor, and Joan Millman. That’s right guys-hold a rally; you tell big, bad City Planning how it’s gonna be. How many neighborhoods already have requests for down-zoning in the pipeline? Too bad. Carroll Gardens goes to the front of the line. DUMBO was promised that its rezoning would happen at the same time as the recent landmarking. Oh well. They’ve waited over ten years already, so what’s a couple more? The problems in Carroll Gardens are worse than anywhere else. And they’re going to get it done in 18 months too! Fort Greene and Clinton Hill took three years, but that’s only cause those neighborhoods aren’t nearly as special as Carroll Gardens. Yeah, right.
Those people look live losers to me. Did they all take a personal day to attend this? No, they didn’t. They don’t have jobs. They get their meals from welfare, they get their shelter from rent control, they get their phone line through the Universal Service Fund paid by other phone owners. These people are what’s wrong with the city and politicians. The city is catering to the people that do not contribute to the city but at the same time, they harm the people giving the city money and harm the people that are paying for these losers and keeping them alive!
No, they are losers. Better if they just went away. Go home, leave.
Man those don’t look like yuppies to me. They look like REAL PEOPLE!
WOW!! And they look real bound and determined too. I sure don’t see any high end strollers or designer clothes anywhere…..I think these REAL people might be talking about REAL quality of life ISSUES! Could it be? Wonder which POL is courageous enough to listen? The developers have very deep pockets let us never forget. This looks to me like grassroots democracy if I ever saw it myself. Viva la Democracy Wall! Viva Carroll Gardens!
Oh my god 2:07, are you crrraaazy? So, there is a land rush of yuppies storming the streets of Brooklyn looking for housing! Give me a break and shut up!
Oh my god 1:58, are you crrraaazy? So, there is a land rush of yuppies storming the streets of Brooklyn looking for housing? Give me a break and shut up.