James P. Molinaro, the borough president, said that residents opposed any curbs on development because owners of a building in a landmark district cannot change, renovate or demolish their property without the approval of the Landmarks Preservation Commission.
Prime minister, Narendra Modi, has simultaneously pushed solar power as a way to cut emissions – signing up a global alliance of 120 countries to back the technology – as well as signalling India would not accept curbs on its development.
For Ms. Singer, curbs on outsized development in Brighton Beach are needed if the shorefront neighborhood is to retain any semblance of what it looked like when she arrived there 42 years ago, and what its many elderly residents remember.
China in recent years has begun restoring parts of the wall as well as trying to curb commercial development on or next to the ancient structure.
A coalition of environmental groups, including the Florida Wildlife Federation, Audubon of Florida and the Clean Water Network, said on Thursday that the council should focus on curbing development, not accommodating it.
During his seven-year tenure as chairman, a period of economic boom, Mr. Sturz helped curb development on the East Side of Manhattan while spurring it on the West Side and in downtown Brooklyn.
Then I sat on a curb, dazed.
Others slouched, like jellyfish, on a curb.
They sat together on a curb and cried.
The biggest incident is someone trips on a curb.
