update:
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is this guy more pro-development than Turkish Delight?
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Lol. The guy who blocked Hudson Yards from being built for years?
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Article’s paywalled. Here’s a bypass link.
Some key highlights about the guy from this article are:
- Declare a state of emergency because of New York City’s housing crisis. Build 50,000 homes on public golf courses. Triple subsidies for affordable housing.
- Many of his plan’s components, like increasing housing subsidies, would be costly. Others, like development on golf courses, are likely to encounter resistance from people living nearby.
- As a City Council member, he helped push through the redevelopment of Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood, where thousands of homes are being built today.
- He said he will convene a “citizens assembly” — a representative group of New York City residents — to quickly come up with ways to make housing development faster and simpler. And Mr. Lander, like several other candidates, is hoping to push a citywide plan for development, instead of individual neighborhood plans.
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Blows my mind the amount of real estate golf courses and graveyards take in this city. Build on all that sh*t
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I don’t think Lander can really be trusted. He is a huge grandstander and very self-righteous. He dragged out the Gowanus rezoning into an absurd eight-year-long odyssey…NYC needed to be doing multiple Gowanus-size rezonings a year to meet the scale of the shortage in the hundreds of thousands of homes. In an emergency you don’t delay things for 8 years to score virtue signaling brownie points. At that pace nothing will even get done by the end of his administration.
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yet no major transit improvements sigh
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Pretty impressive if true! Now just imagine if all the other sport teams were good lol.
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This is major!! This has been a top priority wish for me for years, decades even. Can’t wait to see how much reduction there is of this blight on our streetscape. (
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Council passes legislation to reduce NYC’s 400 miles of scaffolding
Five bills in one:
The legislation requires the Department of Buildings (DOB) to study and recommend new shed designs to the City Council by September 30, 2025. Under the law, more color options for sheds would be allowed, construction fences would be required to match adjacent shed colors, lighting underneath would be increased, and the minimum height would be raised to 12 feet.
Another bill would shorten the time for shed permits for facade repairs from one year to three months, except for demolitions, building alterations, or new construction. The legislation would also establish new penalties for property owners who delay repairs to sheds that occupy the public right-of-way. These penalties would be enforced starting with the second permit renewal, increasing based on the age and size of the shed.
The legislation would require DOB to review the frequency of the Facade Inspection and Safety Program (FISP) and recommend changes to the Council by December 31, 2025. It would also extend the time between inspections from every five years to every six to 12 years and delay the first required inspection of any new building from five to nine years.
Introduction 660-A doubles the required lighting beneath sheds and mandates using LED lights. It would also require lights within 20 feet of windows or glass doors to be adjustable or shielded to avoid disturbing nearby homes and businesses.
Intro 661-A would bolster enforcement of facade repairs by imposing penalties on property owners who fail to submit construction documents to the DOB within five months of completion, do not file proper permit applications within eight months, or fail to complete repairs within two years.
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is the 3rd item the one that would actually reduce the amount of sidewalk sheds? The other rules appear to just be changing the type/quality of the available sheds
The second and fifth items (and maybe the third as well)
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This was helpful, thanks!
This is such a huge rule change. The scaffolding has become synonymous with the city. I’m in my 30s and I can’t remember a time when the city wasn’t covered in green sheds!
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Scaffolding is such a blight on NYC. And it’s uniquely an NYC issue. Go to any other urban city like Chicago, Philly, SF, DC, Boston, or even Toronto or London, you don’t see 1/4 of the scaffolding (that aren’t being used for active construction projects) out in the wild like in New York
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Yes, this is huge! I think it may be the most prominent positive thing that happens in the city this year (along with congestion charge)
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This huge, just imagine the amount of sunlight that’s going to reach sidewalks across the city!
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Here’s my unpopular opinion – these sidewalk sheds are a New York institution and are a godsend on a rainy day. It would be sad if there are fewer of them.
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I dislike sidewalk sheds because they’re a possible sign of an upcoming Local Law 11 mutilation. For some reason, parapet removal seems to only be a thing in NYC despite plenty of other cities also having old buildings.
Hard to believe but sometimes the light and sunshine does get thru. May logic and reason continue to prevail!
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