City Council bill demands racial disparity study for some rezonings
Certain rezonings may soon require an extra step in the city’s land use review process. The City Council’s land...
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Council speaker proposes overhaul of land use process
For decades, politicians and advocates have tried and failed to take a more comprehensive approach to land use decisions...
Chinatown jail that would replace Rikers is halted by judge
The city’s $8 billion plan to close Rikers Island and replace it with four borough-based jails suffered a setback...
City to resume rezonings, at last
Projects frozen in the city’s stalled land-use process — which Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday called “crucial to all of our lives” — can finally get moving again. The mayor announced that the...
What’s taking so long to restart Ulurp?
City Hall is having technical difficulties. The de Blasio administration is still trying to figure out how to move the city’s land-use review process online, the New York Post reports. Mayor Bill de Blasio...
Councilman: Resume land-use reviews — but just for Rikers
A City Council member thinks it is time for the city to restart its land-use review process for one...
NYC pol aims to curb Amazon-style warehouses
Politicians’ fight against Amazon is not over. The e-commerce giant’s bid to build a Queens campus died a year...
Some builders upset as voters add red tape to projects
Much of the excitement around New York’s election Tuesday centered on the approval of ranked choice voting, but passage...
GFI bringing 330K sf mixed-use project to Fort Greene
UPDATED: 9:10 a.m., Dec. 11: GFI Development filed plans today for a 327,317-square-foot, mixed-used development in Fort Greene, a...
NYT critic gets heat for touting more public review for towers
If city agencies and community groups were granted more authority on air rights transfers for all new skyscrapers, it...