TESTIMONY
Carol Donovan, President of Richmondtown & Clarke Avenue Civic Association on opposition to City of Yes proposal
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Civic association president opposes City of Yes proposal for economic opportunity.
- Views proposal as an insult and overreach that would negatively impact residential communities
- Opposes allowing businesses in residential areas without proper regulation
- Concerned about traffic, pollution, noise, and loss of green space
- Points out existing vacant storefronts could be used instead
- Believes Department of Buildings is understaffed and unable to oversee enforcement
Carol Donovan
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This is Carol Donovan.
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Thank you for giving me an opportunity to speak tonight.
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I'm president of Richmondtown.
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In Clark Ave, New Civic Association in Staten Island.
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And as you've heard from What I hear is from residential communities throughout the city.
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We are strongly opposed to this proposal, City of Yes To Economic Opportunity.
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We see it as something that is essentially an insult in an outreach.
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The taxpayers and for anyone that lives and works in New York City.
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We do not wanna be a 247 destination, which would be a timescale environment in the residential area.
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Would you want that in your residential area?
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No.
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I'm sure.
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We don't want a proliferation of businesses where they never existed.
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And as many people have already pointed out, There's already existing store from set of vacant, which can easily be used.
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We don't need them sitting inside an apartment building where you don't have proper regulation of who is running the business, what the business is, what the effect is on neighbors.
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We don't want brought us already granted to the BSA that would allow them to modify size and closure, other requirements because BSA historically has been almost exclusively working in the interest of developers.
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We and we don't want the sadly understaffed department of buildings to oversee enforcement of this dangerous zoning proposal.
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They can't handle what they're currently charged with doing.
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We don't want corner stores as described in the proposal because that would only lead as many people already saying.
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Traffic nightmares, pollution, noise, loss of green space, replacing once quiet, residential care Your