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August 30, 2007
Attacking Overdevelopment on Several Fronts
Brooklyn Downtown Star
By Shane Miller
City Councilman Bill de Blasio and Congressional Representative Yvette Clarke speak out against overdevelopment (really).
Downzoning? Landmarking? Moratorium on all new construction? Yes, yes, and yes, say residents of Carroll Gardens.
Such was the general consensus at a town hall meeting hosted by Councilman Bill de Blasio, which saw upwards of 100 people pack into Scotto Funeral Home on 1st Place last Thursday evening.
Though the two supporters of Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards, the historically dense ode to overdevelopment, don't see a connection between overdevelopment in Carrol Gardens and the Gowanus Canal area and overdevelopment just a few blocks over in Prospect Heights, the people who live here do:
Marlene Donnelly of Friends and Residents of Greater Gowanus (FROGG), for instance, would rather see the area along the canal restored to a natural wetland state. Donnelly worries that more development, along with the proposed Atlantic Yards project, will only tax the canal further, and that the areas around the Gowanus Canal are being rezoned to facilitate a downzoning of the greater Carroll Gardens area.
Posted by lumi at August 30, 2007 6:59 AM