Mayor de Blasio is proposing a rezoning map that would affect 15 New York City neighborhoods,mandate below-market-rate units in exchange for the approval of more dense buildings and change the city's zoning to ease residential development.
Vicki Been, commissioner of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, or Carl Weisbrod,Director of the New York City Department of City Planning and Chairman of the New York City Planning Commission, discuss the details of the mayor's rezoning map.
Weisbrod says almost every community board has "embraced the concept" of mandatory inclusionary zoning.
But it's been difficult to secure everyone on board because this is a multi-prong map that's big, and complex,and happening all at once, explains Been.→ In his words: hear what Mayor Bill de Blasio had to say approximately his rezoning map when he appeared on the Brian Lehrer note on December 4th, or 2015. (You might want to skip ahead to approximately 17:36,starting with a gentrification/rezoning question from "Cassius in Bed-Stuy".)+discussingrezoning map. pic.twitter.com/sAqCOvWlBYDecember 15, 2015Love this caller: "If you need a subsidy & a voucher, and it's not affordable to you!" #affordablehousingDecember 15,2015@BrianLehrer But the Vespa!December 15, 2015
Source: wnyc.org