PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Rosa Chang, Community Advocate and Condo Board President
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Rosa Chang, a community advocate and condo board president, testifies in support of the City of Yes proposal with conditions. She emphasizes the need for updated zoning to accommodate evolving city needs and build homes for all New Yorkers, while also addressing infrastructure concerns.
- Calls for a ZIP code set-aside for civic infrastructure funds to improve parks, schools, and hospitals in densifying areas
- Suggests reducing the sunset provision for off-siting affordable housing from 10 to 5 years
- Recommends mandating essential building infrastructure like garbage and package rooms for larger conversions and enlargements
Rosa Chang
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Thank you very much.
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Thank you very much for the opportunity to testify today.
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My name is Rosa Chang, and I'm here to testify for myself.
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I am deeply involved in my community and the president of my condo board where we have over 400 units.
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I'm a member of my local community board, but to be clear, I am speaking on my own behalf today.
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I have served and continued to serve on PTAs and SLTs for years at 3 public schools.
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I am the cofounder of a new public plaza created to creating desperately needed recreation space in a historically disadvantaged community with over 47,000 residents that live within a half mile radius of the plaza.
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All this is to say I care deeply about my neighbors, my community, and my city.
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I am so excited that the city is working to update our zoning tech to adapt to our evolving needs.
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We are not the same city nor the same people that we were in 1960.
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We need to build homes for existing and new New Yorkers.
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For renters and for owners, for our children, our adults, and our seniors.
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I am in support of the city of yes, with conditions.
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With up zoning and the resultant increase in the people living in our communities, we need to ensure that our infrastructure keep up with the increased density, we need to address the quality of what concerns.
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A ZIP code set aside for civic infrastructural funds would keep infrastructural improvements in the community that is being densified, specifically funding for parks and open space school seats and hospital beds.
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The 10 year sunset provision for off-siteing of affordable housing should be reduced to 5 years.
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We want affordable housing in our neighborhood and in every neighborhood that is increasing in FAR.
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For conversions and enlargements above a certain size, we must mandate essential building infrastructure, including garbage collection and storage rooms, package rooms.
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As we densify, we create more trash, more deliveries, which inevitably impact our sidewalks.
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Regarding large campus info projects, mandating any additional residential space.
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Oops.
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I'm done.
