Pardon Me For Asking will try hard to keep the community informed on important meetings or hearings as the proposed Gowanus neighborhood rezoning
I urge everyone to make every effort to attend, since the future of our neighborhood is at stake.
I urge everyone to make every effort to attend, since the future of our neighborhood is at stake.
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The New York City Department of City Planning (DCP) will return to Community Board 6's Land Use Committee tomorrow night, this time to answer questions from committee members regarding the Gowanus Draft Zoning Proposal. You may remember that the previous CB6 Land Use meeting on March 1 was set aside so that the community got to voice their comments to DCP on this matter.
The proposal almost doubles the density of what had been planned for the area in 2008. Despite the participation of local residents in Councilman Brad Lander's Bridging Gowanus visioning process, this re-zoning plan guarantees few of the things that the community really cared about: artists lofts, maker spaces and parks.
How exactly the area will accommodate thousands of new residents when our infrastructure is already at a breaking point remains unclear.
The plan offers no contract with the community that would truly guarantee us new schools, new investments in our sewers, or increased subway service.
It does guarantee years of construction and a radical change to Gowanus and surrounding neighborhoods like Park Slope and Carroll Gardens.
The Community Board will have a huge role in rezoning Gowanus, since its members will vote on supporting it or not.
The members represent all of us and we should remind them of that fact by attending CB6 meetings where the rezoning is discussed.
So please be there tomorrow.
CB6 Landmarks and Land Use Committee Meeting
6pm
P.S. 133
610 Baltic Street (Between 4th& 5th Avenue)
Brooklyn NY 11219
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