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February 8, 2006
Demapping Planning
Brooklyn Views turns a critical eye to the demapping of streets, a topic discussed at a recent Borough Board meeting:
At the recent Brooklyn Borough Atlantic Yards Committee’s meeting, Winston Von Engel from City Planning was asked what the department’s position on demapping streets is. His initial reply: "I don't think there's one policy for demapping or mapping streets".
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But that doesn’t mean that there is no policy. In fact there is a policy, and we know what it is: agree to demap streets only if doing so supports sound urban design principles. City Planning’s public silence in the wake of the planning failure at Atlantic Yards is uncharacteristically deferential to the developer, at the expense of the public realm.
Who but Brooklyn Views blogger Jonathan Cohn would have information on Downtown Brooklyn street demappings at his disposal?
There the 1,025 square feet at the end of Pearl was already a dead-end, used only for on-street parking. And the 3,395 square foot sliver of Adams was a non-traffic remnant of a 1940’s street widening.
Posted by lumi at February 8, 2006 11:05 PM