Who: NYC City Planning Commission
What: Public Hearing on Zoning for Quality & Affordability (ZQA); Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH)
Where: National Museum of the American Indian, One Bowling Green
When: Tomorrow Wednesday, December 16, 9:00 am
Please click here to write Mayor de Blasio and the City Council urging them to listen to NY’s communities and to oppose this plan.
Brief examples of major problems with ZQA:
- It is a wholesale upzoning of the entire city, without consideration to borough, neighborhood, side street or wide street;
- Current height limits are not proven to impede developers’ decisions to participate in inclusionary housing, so why raise them if it will still be optional in ZQA?
- There is no study or proposed solution to preserving existing affordable units – upzoning could incentivize demolition of these units;
- Senior housing will be a fraction of larger market rate residential and not permanent, but the heights will be;
- There is no guarantee that affordable housing will be replaced in-kind by new development;
- Housing will not be affordable to majority of residents of MIH zones, as explored in Comptroller Stringer’s examination of East New York, and;
- There are no requirements for equal access, amenities or finishes in affordable housing (i.e. “poor doors” & “poor floors”).
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