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January 30, 2008
It came from the Blogosphere...
Curbed, Comment of the Day
So i guess in NY its no longer fashionable to build single, dominating buildings, but entire sections of the city get "developed" in one swoop. WTC, Hudson Yards, Atlantic Yards, East River Waterfront. That sound you hear is Jane Jacobs spinning in her grave like a top.
Found in Brooklyn, Rally for Down Zoning with Bill DeBlasio Tomorrow at 16 Court Street at 11 am.
City Councilmember Bill DeBlasio supports Cobble Hill downzoning, however:
Personally, I can't get past his pro-Atlantic Yards stance and view that an $80,000 income makes one qualify for "affordable" housing.
Pardon Me For Asking, Marty Switching Tactic In Fight Against Rats
Gratuitous link about RATS in Brooklyn Borough Hall, if you could imagine such a thing.
Community Benefits Agreement, Bronx Terminal Market CBA
Another controversial project, another Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) — this one seems to have drawn inspiration from the Atlantic Yards CBA.
The 2006 CBA concerning the Bronx Terminal Market mall development has been criticized (here and here) because the negotiation process did not truly involving any grassroots community organizations. While the agreement does include a number of valuable community benefits, the developer will only be fined $60,000 for failing to comply with the CBA (with a cap of $600,000 on the amount of fines that can ever be assessed), weakening the value of the CBA in the eyes of many stakeholders.
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Like Atlantic Yards, this seems to be another CBA in which real benefits are going to be provided to the community, but the question is whether those are the benefits that the community really wanted.
NoLandGrab: To say that the community might not have wanted promises of jobs and housing doesn't quite describe the main problem with the Atlantic Yards CBA. Rather, there were large groups of stakeholders left out of the process, and their needs and concerns were not addressed.
Curbed, The Morning After: Atlantic Yards Money Woes & Musical
The little Brooklyn project known as Atlantic Yards has heated up again this week with news about new concerns over financing the project.
Posted by lumi at January 30, 2008 5:22 AM