The Latest from CORD/Coalition for Respectful Development www.carrollgardenspetition.blogspot.com
Here is another response we have received a local resident re: our question:
Dear NEIGHBOR:
How do YOU feel about whether or not our Councilman should support us at the upcoming BSA HEARING?
Please write to us at cgcord@... if you would like to speak out.
CORD www.carrollgardenspetition.blogspot.com
Dear Councilman DeBlasio
In your own website announcing your interest in the Borough Presidency you say:
As Borough President, no one will fight harder to make Brooklyn more affordable for working families, stop out of control and irresponsible development, protect our environment and improve the quality of life in every neighborhood."
Now it's time for you to live up to your own rhetoric:
Your failure to attend the BSA hearing and to speak against the outrageous abuse of the zoning process, the law, the neighborhood's best interest by the developer of 360 Smith Street will, in my view, completely undermine your legitimacy. This is, after all the work you and the neighborhood has done, the final showdown.
You can't just put slogans on your website, you have to live up to them. When the public eyes were on the project you held rallies and spoke out against the architect. Now, when the spotlights have dimmed and the real work needs to be done, we need your full and unqualified support.
I hope you can live up to your own promises, and that they are not simply election hype. Your constituents would not stand for that.
Respectfully yours,
James Biber
Carroll Gardens resident and homeowner
And some good news and a call for participation from the HOYT STREET ALLIANCE!
Dear Neighbors, please help the Hoyt Street Alliance and support our very
responsive Assemblywoman Joan Millman, and State Senator Martin Connor, by
sending an e-mail to Tobias Russo (see below) in support of this amendment.
It basically changes a rule that restricts bars from opening within 200' of
a church or a school, but measured the distance from door to door of a bar
and the church or school. Unscrupulous bar owners could show the location of
a door in plans submitted to the State Liquor Authority, but move the door
to suit their business at a later date. Also, a bar's entrance may have no
bearing on the bar's nuisance factor. A more accurate and meaningful
measurement is from property line to property line, as this bill proposes.
Your help would be greatly appreciated as we continue the fight to maintain
the residential character of our block. Our Assemblywoman and State Senator
went out on a limb for us and it would be sad to see the amendment fail for
lack of citizen support.
Here is a link to the Amendment's text.
http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A11364&sh=t
Sincerely,
Mary Hedge, Hoyt Street Alliance
And some good news and a call for participation from the HOYT STREET ALLIANCE!
Dear Neighbors, please help the Hoyt Street Alliance and support our very
responsive Assemblywoman Joan Millman, and State Senator Martin Connor, by
sending an e-mail to Tobias Russo (see below) in support of this amendment.
It basically changes a rule that restricts bars from opening within 200' of
a church or a school, but measured the distance from door to door of a bar
and the church or school. Unscrupulous bar owners could show the location of
a door in plans submitted to the State Liquor Authority, but move the door
to suit their business at a later date. Also, a bar's entrance may have no
bearing on the bar's nuisance factor. A more accurate and meaningful
measurement is from property line to property line, as this bill proposes.
Your help would be greatly appreciated as we continue the fight to maintain
the residential character of our block. Our Assemblywoman and State Senator
went out on a limb for us and it would be sad to see the amendment fail for
lack of citizen support.
Here is a link to the Amendment's text.
http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A11364&sh=t
Sincerely,
Mary Hedge, Hoyt Street Alliance
