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Sunset Park downzoning floated

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Mayor Bloomberg and Amanda Burden, the city’s planning commissioner, attended a meeting in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, on Tuesday night to discuss a possible downzoning of the neighborhood. Burden said a study would be completed by the end of the year analyzing the possible rezoning, which comes in the wake of community outcry over the proposed construction of tall buildings in the neighborhood. There is speculation that if the downzoning is approved, developers will rush in to construct projects before the new regulations go into effect, as has happened recently in many neighborhoods across the city, such as Park Slope’s Fourth Avenue. more [Gowanus Lounge]

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