ZQA sees its day in City Council

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Beginning at 9:30 this morning, the City Council Committee on Zoning and Franchises began a hearing on the Department of City Planning and Department of Housing Preservation and Development’s proposal for ZQA, or more formally, Zoning for Quality and...

Preservation Groups Blast Approval of Citywide Rezoning Plans With No Substantive Changes

MIH-Mandatory Inclusionary Housing, Preservation Under Fire, Watch List, ZQA-Zoning for Quality and Affordability

PRESS RELEASE February 3, 2016   PRESERVATION GROUPS BLAST APPROVAL OF CITYWIDE REZONING PLANS WITH NO SUBSTANTIVE CHANGES,  VOW TO BRING FIGHT TO CITY COUNCIL   Contact: Andrew Berman, Exec. Dir., Greenwich Village Society for Historic...

The BIG Deal! [updated]

MIH-Mandatory Inclusionary Housing, Preservation Under Fire, ZQA-Zoning for Quality and Affordability

Challenging de Blasio’s Height-Raising Rezoning Plans Zoning for Quality and Affordability (ZQA) & Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH): THE BIG DEAL  The Mayor’s proposed Zoning for Quality and Affordability (ZQA) and Mandatory...

City Planning shows Stamina, Hopefully ZQA and MIH Won’t!

Dept. of City Planning, MIH-Mandatory Inclusionary Housing, Zoning, ZQA-Zoning for Quality and Affordability

First the Good News: December weather is finally upon us! Now the Bad News: If you were like us, you were stuck freezing outside the City Planning Commission! 48-degree weather (felt like 44-degrees at the foot of Broadway!) greeted a long line of preservation and...

BFJ Comments on Zoning for Quality and Affordability

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LANDMARK WEST! asked BFJ Planning to review Mayor De Blasio’s City Planning proposals “Zoning for Quality and Affordability” and “Mandatory Inclusionary Housing”.  Click here for a copy of their full critique. Below are some of their...