After all these months, City Planning has approved the project on February 17th exactly as it had gone into the ULURP process, thereby dismissing virtually every concern raised by the community as well as the recommendations made by our own Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz.
This re-inforces the nagging suspicion of many residents that the process is just for show and that approval for most projects is a foregone conclusion before the ULURP process even gets under way.
The last hurdle for the Toll Brothers' Gowanus Project is the City Council.
Tomorrow, the Zoning and Franchises Subcommittee is holding its Public Hearing on Toll Gowanus.
I urge as many people as possible to attend or to send in a written testimony.
Below is the information:
Zoning & Franchises Subcommittee Public Hearing regarding
Toll Brothers at 363-365 Bond St
City Hall
Committee Room (R to City Hall or A to Chambers St.)
March 4, 2009 9:30am
Written testimony can be sent to Tony Avella,
Chairperson of Zoning & Franchises
avella@council.nyc.ny.us
Toll Brothers at 363-365 Bond St
City Hall
Committee Room (R to City Hall or A to Chambers St.)
March 4, 2009 9:30am
Written testimony can be sent to Tony Avella,
Chairperson of Zoning & Franchises
avella@council.nyc.ny.us
Related Reading:
Apparently City Planning Commission Approved Toll Brothers Gowanus Development On February 17th
Last Day To Comment On Toll Brothers' ULURP Application
CB6 Wants To Make Sure That Toll Brothers Don't Weasel Out Of Gowanus Affordable Housing Component
Toll Brothers Show Up With Usual Crew At City Planning Hearing
Will City Planning Actually Hear Community At Today's Toll Brothers' Gowanus Development Hearing?
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3 comments:
Wake up already and smell the coffee. You are living in denial. Next you will expect that the addition at 333 Carroll street might ever come down in your lifetime. Get real you are on the outside.
The Shadow
If the day should ever come that Scarano's addition at 333 comes down, Carroll Gardeners should throw a hell of a party in the streets.
You know...There are only so many quaint Brownstones to go around. People like yourself have forced rents up to the point where real Brooklynites cannot afford to live there. The vibrant businesses that were once the bedrock of Carroll gardens are gone as well, replaced by fly by night, poorly planned, parentally subsidized distractions.
You move in and show complete disrespect to locals by demanding bike lanes and want stuff changed that doesn't agree with your supposedly liberal worldview (EX: Hipsters trying to do away with the Feast of San Gennaro. Sure, I have a liberal arts degree. Let me clue in the masses..the locals...the great unwashed.
The arrogance of your ilk is mind boggling. Now more of your type wants to move in (granted if I were to house interloping, gentrifying, annoying, nasally, scarf wearing sock puppets I'd put them next to a toxic dump in a building put up by a third rate slop artist).
Now some other urban colonists want to move there little slice of the gritty, urban, bloggable, I-phone documentable experience and fusspots like yourself want to deny them.
I'm sure people felt the same way when the pre-war building you live went up in the 20's or 30's.
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