Thursday, July 17, 2008

LAST OPPORTUNITY to speak out on behalf of the CG Zoning Text Amendment (MONDAY 7/21)!


HELLO FROM CORD

THIS COMING MONDAY, JULY 21ST AT 9:30 AM is the last opportunity to speak out on behalf of the CG Zoning Text Amendment!
This is your last chance to let our City Council Members know how strongly we support this text change which will finally and properly classify and zone the 15 blocks covered in this amendment, as the little side streets they actually are.
(Link to Text Amendment here)

THIS TEXT AMENDMENT, IF PASSED, WILL NO LONGER ALLOW THE BOULEVARD SIZED TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION CURRENTLY PERMITTED ON THESE TINY BLOCKS.

This is the final public hearing. This is the last step we are permitted to actively participate in, within the process. Two days after this hearing, the full council will meet and vote.

So many of you have signed letters of support. So many have taken the time and expressed themselves publicly at the prior hearings required by this process; the community board meetngs, the Borough President's public hearing in May and the NYC Planning Commission hearing in June.

.....Let us not falter now. Let us complete what we have patiently worked so long and so hard to do!

Please come and bring a friend or a neighbor. For three minutes or less, you may read your prepared statement. If speaking out publicly is not for you, you can still show your support by coming out and standing side by side with your neighbors and friends.

If you need any help preparing your statement, please browse thru all the public testimony that CORD has featured in previous blog posts. There are many wonderful ideas that you can adapt to your personal style. Type "testimony" into the search blog bar at the top left of our blog and you will HEAR the voices of so many of your neighbors. (Or go to: http://carrollgardenspetition.blogspot.com/search?q=testimony)
Thank you.

CG CORD

WHEN: MONDAY JULY 21ST AT 9:30 AM
WHERE: CITY HALL COMMITTEE ROOM

DIRECTIONS: VIA SUBWAY
F TRAIN TO JAY ST
SWITCH TO A OR C TO CHAMBERS STREET
WALK TO MURRAY & BROADWAY









































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