One critic, Mayor David Kapell of Greenport, said the new rules would discourage developers, did little to create affordable housing and amounted to a sweeping up-zoning that was accomplished without actually changing zoning at all.
The resulting plan was "one of the largest and most ambitious re-zonings we've proposed for Brooklyn," the mayor said in 2007.
ZONING OUT I take a nap, which I love.
(After entering the property's address at the building department Web site, click on "jobs/filings," select the most recent filing, choose the "virtual jobs folder," then select "zoning document-ZD1").
But New Lee's and other factories in the neighborhood were grandfathered in under the very zoning changes that deemed the area residential.
I started the Corner Side Yard (a rather archaic zoning term) in February 2012 to rattle off my opinions about cities in the American Midwest, or what many people here call the Rust Belt.
In a period when Staten Island is facing all the problems of overbuilding, Ms. Hikind would be a far more energetic voice for down-zoning until schools, roads and other needs are ready for more people.
There are roughly four different types of projects working their way through the approval process, some in areas where zoning maps have not changed since the current system was established in 1961.
But for 40 years, the institutions have had more zoning muscle.
The city's sprawling, no-zoning layout makes collection expensive, and there is little public support for the kind of effort it takes to sort glass, paper and plastics.
"It also takes steps to support the business community and the business area in the Jamaica part of Queens, taking steps and in part through a small up-zoning, to make that business district a really thriving business district".
