Construction-crazy council … and more

1. City Council hearing tomorrow will consider 12 construction-related bills [NYO]
2. The city wants to drop a requirement that the buildings commissioner must be a licensed architect [NYO]
3. Turtle is victim of Williamsburg’s building boom [Curbed]
4. Rendering revealed of the Walentas’ $600 million development on 11th Avenue, between 53rd and 54th streets [NYO]
5. New Queens to Manhattan water taxi starts May 12 [Crain’s]
7. One of Brooklyn’s most unique office spaces is at the old Montauk Club in Park Slope [Brownstoner]
8. Younger, more tech-savvy home buyers are forcing brokers to adapt [Boston Globe]
9. Today’s techie dream house could be tomorrow’s mainstream dream home [WSJ]
10. Gov. Paterson, unlike Eliot Spitzer, wants just one development chief [NYO]