Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Please let your voice be heard at City Planning This WED. JUNE 4th 2008

Hello from CORD

IMPORTANT DATE: TOMORROW WEDNESDAY JUNE 4th!

Wednesday June 4th 10 AM

CITY PLANNING COMMISSION

22 Reade Street, Spector Hall

New York, N.Y. 10007

Tomorrow is THE MOST IMPORTANT DAY day for the ZONING TEXT AMENDMENT N080345ZRK! This zoning text amendment is the NEXT STEP in what has become a neighborhood-wide effort over the past year to begin to protect Carroll Gardens from out of scale, out of context development that will forever change our neighborhood as we know it!

Below you will find all the INFO you need about tomorrow's procedure. Remember, if you are too shy to speak, please come along, listen and show your support! Attendance is important.
We would like to fill the room at City Planning.

If you would prefer to submit written testimony you may print the form below off this blog, fill in the information, and mail to the address right above the form. Your written testimony should be submitted within a few days of the hearing.

We need to protect Carroll Gardens ONE STEP AT A TIME and this is the NEXT STEP. Without the Zoning Text Amendment we here in Carroll Gardens are TOTALLY UNPROTECTED from OVER DEVELOPMENT.

This is from the City Planning Website:

GENERAL INFORMATION

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

Signing up to speak:

Anyone wishing to speak on any of the items listed under "Public

Hearing" in this Calendar, is requested to fill out a speaker's slip supplied at the staff desk

outside the hearing chambers on the day of the hearing. Speakers on each item will be

called in the order these slips are submitted, with the exception that public officials will

be allowed to speak first. If a large number of people wish to speak on a particular item,

statements will be taken alternating every 30 minutes between those speaking in support

of the proposal and those speaking in opposition.

Length of Testimony: In order to give others an opportunity to speak, all speakers are

asked to limit their remarks to three minutes.

Written Comments: If you intend to submit a written statement and/or other documents

please submit 20 sets of each.

Anyone wishing to present facts or to inform the Commission of their view on an item in

this calendar, but who cannot or does not wish to speak at the public hearing, may fill out

the form below and return it to the desk outside the hearing chambers or mail their written

comments to:

CITY PLANNING COMMISSION

Calendar Information Office - Room 2E

22 Reade Street, New York, N.Y. 10007

(Extra copies of this form may be obtained in the Calendar Information Office at the

above address.)

Subject _______________________________________________________________

Date of Hearing _________________ Calendar No. _______

Borough _______________ Identification No.: ______________ CB No.: _______

Position: Opposed _______

In Favor _______

Comments:

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

Name: _________________________________________________

Address: ________________________________________________

Organization (if any) _______________________________________

Address _____________________ Title: ____________________

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CITY PLANNING COMMISSION

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22 Reade Street, New York, N.Y. 10007-1216

AMANDA M. BURDEN, FAICP, Chair

KENNETH J. KNUCKLES, Esq., Vice Chairman

ANGELA M. BATTAGLIA

IRWIN G. CANTOR, P.E.

ANGELA R. CAVALUZZI, R.A.

ALFRED C. CERULLO, III

BE TTY Y. CHEN

MARIA M. DEL TORO

RICHARD W. EADDY

NATHAN LEVENTHAL

SHIRLEY A. MCRAE

JOHN MEROLO

KAREN A. PHILLIPS, Commissioners

YVETTE V. GRUEL, Calendar Officer

The regular public meetings of the Commission shall be held twice monthly on Wednesday at

10:00a.m. in Spector Hall, 22 Reade Street, Manhattan, unless otherwise ordered.

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CORD HISTORY:

With the "Protect Our Homes" petition, CORD was formed in May, 2007. This petition arose as an overwhelmingly negative response to the coming of the over-sized 360 Smith Street Development at the corner of Smith Street and Second Place (Aka Oliver House; aka 131 Second Place). This petition, which had well over three thousand signatures, led to a new zoning text amendment in summer of 2008.

To: Our Elected Officials, Community Leaders, The MTA:
(MAY, 2007)

We the undersigned Carroll Gardens homeowners and residents, are appalled by the "as of right" ruling which allows owners and developers to erect buildings in our neighborhood with no regard to the impact they will present to our quality of life and the value of our homes........

http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?crlgrdns