PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Ed Goydas on City of Yes Housing Opportunity Proposal
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101 sec
Ed Goydas strongly opposes the City of Yes Housing Opportunity proposal, arguing it will negatively impact communities, lower quality of life, and fail to create affordable housing. He contends the proposal will lead to unsustainable density increases, ignore transportation needs, and stress infrastructure without providing actual housing affordability.
- Criticizes the proposal as a "one size fits all package" that will create a "development free for all"
- Argues it will replace homeownership and middle-class housing with market-rate rentals, increasing unaffordability
- Claims the proposal will compromise the democratic process in future land use decisions by expanding as-of-right development and limiting ULURP
Ed Goydas
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of Yes, one size fits all package or proposals become more?
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The resulting development free for all will cannibalize all of our communities.
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Lowering our quality of life and affecting property values and exacerbating the strain on neighborhoods without any increase in infrastructure or agency staffing.
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It will not create more affordable housing.
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Instead, it will replace homeownership, owner occupied housing, and what's left of the middle class in New York with market rate rental units exponentially increasing the affordability of our housing stocks.
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The City of Gas housing opportunity proposal would throw all of that away in order to, 1, create massive and unsustainable increases in density across the board.
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In every lower density neighborhood.
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2, utterly ignored transportation needs and trends, particularly in lower density neighborhoods, far from transit linking to Manhattan.
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3, exponentially increase the stress on infrastructure and public resources of which it makes no mention, or deny actual housing affordability at any kind despite constant buzzwords and meaningless rhetoric.
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5, to be only compromised the democratic process in future land use decisions by communities and the elected officials through the massive expansion of as of right development and limiting of you you are by fellow neighbors business owners, and tax paying citizens are vehemently opposed to the city of yes.
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Thank you.
