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Brooklyn Rezoning

Close zoning loopholes!

Bloomy in the ’Hood: Bloomberg certainly heard plenty of complaints about the 2005 rezoning that unleashed the wave of high-rise development on the neighborhood. Comment.

October 6, 2007

$weetest deal for Domino lobbyists

Williamsburg Waterfront: Developers who want to line Williamsburg’s shore with nine luxury condo towers lined the pockets of influence peddlers with more than half-million dollars over the past two years to lobby for a city rezoning that will make it possible for them to convert the 11-acre waterfront site into a residential complex. Comments (1).

July 28, 2007

Piece of cake: Dyker downzone is official

Rezoning: Dyker Heights will have its re-zoning, and eat it too. Comment.

July 21, 2007

FG-CH downzone movin’ on up

Rezoning: The city is only one step away from making it more difficult to build towering, out-of-scale buildings in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, like the 18-story building threatening to rise on a residential block of Washington Avenue. Comment.

June 23, 2007

… but downzone’s on the way

Rezoning: Fort Greene and Clinton Hill leaders presented a united front before the City’s Planning Commission on Wednesday — despite some internal squabbling — in a push to get the city to restrict building size in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. Comment.

June 16, 2007

Slim hope for rezoning Carroll Gardens quickly

Rezoning: Tempers flared this week as Carroll Gardens residents argued over how best to control “overdevelopment” in the neighborhood. Comments (1).

April 14, 2007

Dyker downzone moves ahead

Rezoning: A city plan to block over-development in low-rise Dyker Heights moved another step closer to reality this week as a local civic association backed the proposal. Comment.
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