Greenpoint, Burg Zoning Study Complete
At a town hall meeting in Greenpoint last week attended by Mayor Bloomberg and various city commissioners, City Planning chief Amanda Burden announced that her department has completed its contextual zoning study for Greenpoint and Williamsburg. According to Brooklyn 11211’s roundup of the meeting, Burden said that all of Greenpoint is slated to get contextual…
At a town hall meeting in Greenpoint last week attended by Mayor Bloomberg and various city commissioners, City Planning chief Amanda Burden announced that her department has completed its contextual zoning study for Greenpoint and Williamsburg. According to Brooklyn 11211’s roundup of the meeting, Burden said that all of Greenpoint is slated to get contextual zoning, which means no more finger buildings, no more community facility bonuses, and more opportunities for inclusionary (affordable) housing. Community Board 1 has been working with City Planning on the study for more than a year, and official details about the study’s findings will presumably be released soon.
Town Hall [Brooklyn 11211]
Photo by bondidwhat.
The preceding posts fail to take into account how much up-zoning has already taken place in Greenpoint and Williamsburg. Comments like the above should be directed at neighborhoods that have received down-zoning without any corresponding increase in density elsewhere.
Agree with Polemicist. How exactly is downzoning and limiting building heights in every neighborhood in sight a logical response to a housing shortage? Sounds like knee-jerk NIMBYism and “I got mine, F— the rest” response.
Woudn’t the progressive response call for bigger and taller buildings?
What a joke. How is it possible reducing the availability of housing is going to lead to more affordable housing?
We need to take these conservative fools to the supreme court – Zoning laws do NOT exist to keep the less fortunate members of society from having a home. Contextual zoning is nothing more than a scam to ensure that whatever density the market supported 50 years ago remains as it is for all time. That is unfair, and violates the equal protection clause of the constitution. All laws are supposed to protect the people EQUALLY – not the lucky few who happened to buy a home when there was reduced demand.