Thought everyone would be interested in the article below from The Observer.
If you think that placing 3,200 new residents along the shores of the heavily polluted Gowanus is insanity, you may want to sign the Defend Gowanus
( No Love Canal Here) petition.
In Gowanus, City Wants 3,200 New Neighbors for Charming Canal
By Eliot Brown
The Bloomberg administration has released new details about its planned rezoning of the area surrounding the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, currently noted for the unappealing industrial sites that dominate the neighborhood. Per an environmental review document (PDF) that went up on the Department of City Planning’s Web site yesterday, the city projects that a rezoning will bring about 3,200 new apartments over the next decade to the area, rising in place of warehouses, industrial and commercial sites, and parking lots.
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3 comments:
The Defend Gowanus petition is asking for a ccomprehensive plan and rejects spot development. The City has accomodated the request!
Why does the city think so many more people will want to live down in the swamp? Does the city planning document give any clue to this?
I'm a little bit puzzled as to how the infrastructure of our neighborhoods surrounding this are supposed to absorb all that. What about traffic? Scholls? We are stretched to capacity as is. Not to mention: Toxic dump, anyone?
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