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Monday, March 16, 2015

Please Vote In Lead-Up to Tonight's ULURP Committee Meeting

I think Babs had a good point about there being too many petitions flying around these days. However, since the neighborhood group Concerned Citizens has created one of their own, I propose that readers sign either theirs or mine before the ULURP Committee Meeting where we will discuss the draft to City Planning of a letter designed to finally begin a study, after a year of debate and information gathering.

Kind of an informal poll, if you will:


If you'd like a study to proceed sign this one:
https://www.change.org/p/community-board-9-brooklyn-nyc-begin-a-planning-study-of-cb9-brooklyn-nyc

If you'd prefer that we vote "no" to proceeding, so that the community find a way to conduct its own study prior to any City involvement:
https://www.change.org/p/community-board-9-say-no-to-city-planning-say-yes-to-community-led-rezoning

I'll be sure to bring the tally to tonight's meeting as at least some evidence of community support for or against the revised draft below, which may include some slight revisions by the end of the meeting, depending on committee members input:






7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Have you posted your petition before? I might have signed this before...

Clarkson FlatBed said...

yes. Change.org will prevent you from signing again.

MikeF said...

Developers are playing excavator "music" in the background, as this vote takes place:

http://www.brooklynian.com/discussion/comment/559376#Comment_559376

Anonymous said...

Can we vote in favor of more development? I'd like to see development concentrated where it makes sense on Empire rather than in the middle of residential blocks all over the place. Build tall on Empire!

Unknown said...

forgive my ignorance but can any resident attend the ulurp meeting tonight?

Unknown said...

Robert Roberst, anyone can attend.

Only committee members and, if prior committee meetings are a guide, any non-committee member who is a CB9 board member can also vote.

Anonymous said...

this is pretty interesting, given the post...

http://www.mas.org/urbanplanning/421a/