Although it was widely reported that the the non-renewal of a number of Community Board 6 members’ terms was payback for those members’ opposition to the Atlantic Yards project, the gathering storm of controversy over a proposed rezoning of Gowanus may have been the real issue at hand. Per Gowanus Lounge: “[Community Board 6’s] role in the Gowanus rezoning is largely still to come. It will be a high stakes battle with hundreds of millions of dollars in profits hanging in the balance for developers such as the Toll Brothers, Boymelgreen Developers and others looking for a broad residential rezoning, the highest possible densities and lax environmental cleanup standards and big public subsidies for deeply toxic parcels of land.” more [Gowanus Lounge]
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