By COLlive reporter
Crown Heights Jewish activists are asking community members to attend the discussions about rezoning at the Community Board 9 on Wednesday, February 4.
Set for 7:00pm at the St. Francis DeSales School at 260 Eastern Parkway, the meeting will discuss the parameters of the area allowed to expand their building structure.
Under consideration is the area of Eastern Parkway to Clarkson Avenue, New York Avenue to Flatbush Avenue and Ocean Avenue. But the Jewish section of Crown Heights isn’t being considered.
The Jewish community requested they be included in the R2 zoning, which will allow residents to renovate and expand their homes, and held several meeting with city officials, says Eli Cohen, Executive Director of the Jewish Community Council.
“Many of the Jewish residents of the community were shocked when the map that was circulated in advance of this ULURP meeting does not include any of the area of the original request,” Cohen writes in a letter to Board 9.
ULURP stands for Uniform Land Use Review Procedure and there has been a vocal conspiracy claiming that decision, claiming that the “black community is being sold to White developers.”
Cohen writes in response that “we echo that question” that “none of the areas of the District with large Jewish populations were included.”
He told COLlive.com that many Jewish residents have found it difficult to expand their homes after the City changed the restrictions of the current zoning.
And if the original request is not honored, “we demand that at the very least the blocks most directly impacted by the R-2 designation – i.e. the blocks of row houses that are in an R-2 zone – be added back into the area for which the board is requesting a study.”
That change would add 4 blocks – Carroll Street between New York Avenue and Kingston Avenue and Crown Street between New York Avenue and Kingston Avenue.
Community Board 9, chaired by Dwayne Nicholson, is an advisory group to New York City about matters in its district. It operates under Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams.
CH will be Park slope appendix soon …. Yuppies want to leave next to Jews but can you afford to rent for yourself and for all your kids in the nearest future ? No …
Can you get morgatges to buy apt in Ch ? Not so easy ….
I don’t want a neighbor with romates and dogs , I want be a neighbor to a Jewish family … Could I ?
rest assured, any housing “developers” who are interested in building here are NOT going to undertake this for our benefit, but for the sole purpose of lining their pockets at the expense of those who can’t afford the sick prices they charge per unit. no, we don’t want them here, thank you. as far as building parking facilities goes, nobody will buy prime real estate to build a garage if it won’t net them a VERY tidy income. so how many of us are going to be able to afford the prices they’d charge for a parking spot? the only… Read more »
Since it was discovered that the large lot across of the 71st Precint “Does Not” belong to the church, 8 lots in total, a developer can build underground parking with 88 affordable housing units
come to crown st, everyone uses there garage, lot of street parking
What is being done about the critical shortage of parking in the neighborhood? New apartments and condos are being built, with each having 1, 2 or more cars. There’s no room to park all these vehicles!
this is not a problem of the zoning a few heimishe blocks, nor should it be viewed as such.what is really needed is a competent committee experienced in dealing with government bureaucracy to address all of our shchunah’s housing and zoning issues. the new phenomenon of grossly overpriced, unaffordable (for us, anyway) hi-rise buildings currently being built here is frightening. if this isn’t stopped it will swallow up the neighborhood until we remain but a few square blocks of the New Crown Heights. to add insult to injury, the chutzpah of sneakily excluding some heimishe blocks from the zoning that… Read more »
Why is the Community Council only fighting for the addition of Carroll St and Crown St? Why not include Eastern Parkway, Union St, President St, Montgomery St. empire Blvd? I for one am interested in making a necessary addition but do not live on Carroll or Crown…. The Community Council is supposed to represent the entire Community not just the self interests of key people working there. Please explain the above approach. I hope there is a good reason that I just don’t see now.
Eli – What about R4??