At Rally, News of Carroll Gardens Downzoning Progress
About 50 people (and one well-dressed canine) showed at Borough Hall this morning to support the drive to downzone Carroll Gardens. Council Member Bill de Blasio organized the rally, and he had some big news to share: The Department of City Planning has officially committed to studying a downzoning of the neighborhood. The news comes…
About 50 people (and one well-dressed canine) showed at Borough Hall this morning to support the drive to downzone Carroll Gardens. Council Member Bill de Blasio organized the rally, and he had some big news to share: The Department of City Planning has officially committed to studying a downzoning of the neighborhood. The news comes hot on the heels of Planning’s announcement that it would initiate a a zoning text amendment to impose height limitations on 1st through 4th Place. De Blasio is also pushing for the city to impose building height limitations of 50 feet while the downzoning is studied. We want to limit heights until a legal downzoning goes through, de Blasio said at the rally. Representatives of Assemblywoman Nydia Velazquez and Assemblywoman Joan Millman also spoke in support of the downzoning, as did Gary Reilly of the Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association. What attracts people to the neighborhood is its low scale, said Reilly. We want to prevent Carroll Gardens from becoming the next Williamsburg, with developers throwing up buildings willy-nilly. De Blasio noted that downzonings typically take a year to a year and a half to push through, and time is of the essence in terms of downzoning Carroll Gardens since the clock is ticking on the current administration’s term.
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Update on Carroll Gardens Development Issues [Brownstoner]
Polemicist,
Why don’t you take two minutes and email DeBlasio instead of posting on Brownstoner and hoping that one of DeBlasio’s staff will read your posts and inform him of your concerns. It would carry a lot more credibility.
I’m not a rich insular conservative. I’m a professional, creative working person and I happen to like my neighborhood the way it is. Why drag MLK into this? This isn’t a race riot. And no one spent “hours” anywhere. Glad you found these posts, 547, between trolling the porn and autobody sites at your dead-end, pencil pusing job while your supervisor is on break.
Hmm. “NIMBY jihad?” I’m a renter. I was there. You think that building skyscrapers is gonna make the F line any less crowded? What are you talking about. Your granddaughter is NOT going to want to live in Brooklyn or New York by the time she is old enough to rent or buy because NYC will have become a huge, ugly GAP store with no personality.
This is the problem with activist politics. Instead of politics being a rational debate regarding the common good, it becomes a shouting match. Everyone wants to protest like they are MLK, even insular conservative rich folk like we have here.
Who has the time to shout? The rich and unemployed. Sorry, I have a job. I can take 2 minutes to crank out a post, but spending hours picketing in front of Borough Hall is not worth my time.
Brownstoner and sites like it are our method of voicing our opinions. You know DeBlasio reads this site (YEAH, I WON’T VOTE FOR YOU!)
Oh, 3:07? Why don’t you shut up and “go home” or better yet, get back to work instead of spreading hate on a blog about people who care about overdevelopment in nice, Brownstone neighborhoods. Go back to Jersey where you belong.
Well, maybe the people in the community who don’t agree with the supporters of a Carroll Gardens downzoning should contact DeBlasio and Millman especially if they are in the majority as you claim. The detractors can stage their own rally or post on the democracy wall. So far I haven’t seen that happening.
Real people? These are real people? Really? I wonder who everybody else in the city are? Strange?
Nimbys, when will you learn? You have taken a noble idea of preserving vanishing beautiful buildings and perverted the very core of the system so that nothing can grow in this city. Everything changes, it grows, falls apart, and gets built again to serve the community but trying to do what Paris did by making the city a museum is wrong and not the course this city should take.
Nimbys really are the vocal minority. They shout and scream and act like little spoiled children when they don’t get their way. It is really impossible for them to fathom that others in the community don’t agree with them. Quite sad.
Carroll gardens i am very proud.
I know at least one person in that picture is a renter. I can’t tell because the picture is in a profile but I think that might be Mr. Scotto who happens to be quite gainfully employed and I doubt he has any need for Universal Phone Service. And I do believe I spotted an architect in one of the pictures posted on Curbed.
Well said 3:02. These are real people and they don’t take any gruff and see right through any BS. These are the people that make Carroll Gardens what it is.