After four years of planning and delays, the city will start soliciting bids on Monday to begin building what could become the city's largest development for middle-income residents in 40 years.
The town has one large development for the elderly, Springvale-on-Hudson, which has 600 apartments, but the Supervisor said Springvale draws tenants from all parts of the county, and Cortlandt could fill at least 300 more apartments with its own elderly people.
Although Huntington is the first Long Island town to adopt a law that insures some affordable housing for larger developments, some people would like to see more.
Walk down the elegant Great Pulteney Street, designed by Thomas Baldwin, and part of a larger development planned for that area.
Like the local Community Board, which opposed this development, we are also concerned about moving forward without seeing the city's larger development plan for the entire area.
The fund awards pilot grants to support exploratory and proof-of-concept activities, as well as larger development grants for more established projects.
Either way, the stadium is part of a much larger development plan for the far West Side, which would include an extension of the No. 7 subway line, a major expansion of the Javits Convention Center, a park, a museum, many office buildings and apartment buildings, even a large new boulevard that would run for nine blocks south from Forty-second Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues.
Roger Tanner, of Cardiff Civic Society, told BBC Radio Wales that large developments planned for the north west of Cardiff will add increased pressure on existing traffic problems.
In 1989, the land was turned over to the Starrett Housing Corporation, which planned to use it for a large development of mixed-income housing.
Home builders have been required to set aside 12.5percentt of large new developments for people who earn 65 to 70percentt of the Washington area's median income.
