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Originally Posted by NYguy
They're idiots. It's a "loophole" that they're using to try and stop the development. As you say, the law is the law. If it's legal, it's legal. How many rezonings do they want to go though? There has to be balance, the city (and its neighborhoods) has to be allowed to grow. In New York, the only way to do that is up. If they don't like it, they can always move. I'm sick of these people who live in Manhattan complaining about buildings.
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What makes it worse, is one of the leaders of the group who is spearheading this, lives in a rent stabilized unit, and has for decades. So the massive increase in rent in that area has literally zero effect on her.
It really never ceases to amaze me that maybe a couple dozen people can prevent, or delay new housing from being built in a city so housing starved.