tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post375732496815995430..comments2024-02-19T05:18:27.849-05:00Comments on <center>the Q at Parkside</center>: And the beat goes on...Clarkson FlatBedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13463744536115119388noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-63749673597518357862018-03-22T10:49:17.382-04:002018-03-22T10:49:17.382-04:00To maximize the number of apartments built in Broo...To maximize the number of apartments built in Brooklyn, the government has to get out of the way. Once the city begins negotiating the ratio of market-rate units vs "affordable" units, the total number goes down. Everyone loses a little when the government meddles.<br /><br />Even zoning is troubled. The square-footage of land in the city is limited. So, that means the way to go is UP. As is obvious by now, the world did not come to an end when 626 Flatbush rose 26 stories.<br /><br />Furthermore, it's way past time for the city to reacquire Floyd Bennett Field and let builders turn that vast unused space into Floyd Bennett City.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-2424669464901954852018-03-16T13:40:58.405-04:002018-03-16T13:40:58.405-04:00It kinda blows my mind the way people assume polit...It kinda blows my mind the way people assume politicians are just going to greenlight any development project. It's just not true. Even when there's no active demonstration against, they're not heartless (generally) or incompetent (except Eugene.) You can say what you will about them but you can't say across the board that they don't care. I've gotten to know a number of them, and it visibly hurts to get called a traitor, or Uncle Tom or sell-out. But they do become realists (maybe not the Barrons) and recognize that not everything is do-able. A city is a giant organism, and you can't take a neighborhood completely out of the whole.Tim Thomasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-80405184266034546272018-03-16T13:24:41.934-04:002018-03-16T13:24:41.934-04:00not so. Cumbo was always going to negotiate the de...not so. Cumbo was always going to negotiate the deal they finally got. That's the politics. Sadly the whole thing was done before it got started. In fact, the KtD folks gave her the cover, even as they called her out as a traitor. I don't think she anticipated being hated so much by the KtD before she played her hand though. She didn't get to come out a hero. That was all AB & CHTU.<br /><br />They're still crying to Kill the Deal though. There's no compromise going on at CB9 either, ensuring that all these deals get made without community input.Clarkson FlatBedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13463744536115119388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-80316776220324765432018-03-16T11:55:05.009-04:002018-03-16T11:55:05.009-04:00If it weren't for "Kill the Deal," f...If it weren't for "Kill the Deal," far less of those Armory apartments would have been affordable.colin, across the street from the atrocity on linden smhnoreply@blogger.com