Normally I reserve this compilation for proposals, u/c, status on developments, but this news important.
Step in the right direction IMO.
What NYC needs is more rezoning to become denser. And really because the housing is needed badly. This rezoning should lead to many more units and many more high rises, as I suspect they will build or modify many of these structures, additions if you will, to add the units. Cheaper than demolishing the whole thing.
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City Council passes Inwood rezoning: The plan seeks to bring 5,000 units of housing to the neighborhood
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Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Inwood rezoning has passed.
The City Council on Wednesday voted through the controversial plan that would allow more development and increase housing in the upper Manhattan neighborhood, Curbed reported.
The council’s subcommittee on zoning and franchises last week approved a modified version of the plan, which excluded the “commercial U” of Broadway, 207th Street and Dyckman Street. It aims to bring 5,000 units of housing to the neighborhood.
Parts of the community have decried the plan, fearing it would cause home values and rents to soar. But local Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez and the administration have argued that the current housing supply faces too much market pressure, which causes the displacement that opponents want to stop. Rodriguez was targeted by marches and a sit-in.
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