PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Christopher Leon Johnson, Member of the Public, on Industrial Business Zones and Bike Lanes
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Christopher Leon Johnson testified about the importance of Industrial Business Zones (IBZs) in New York City and expressed concerns about the encroachment of bike lanes and other non-industrial structures in these areas. He urged the city council to protect IBZs from initiatives that could potentially displace industrial businesses.
- Johnson emphasized the need for legislation to prevent bike lanes, open spaces, and e-bike charging stations in IBZs.
- He cited specific examples, including a proposed bike lane in Long Island City's industrial area and an existing bike lane on McGinnis Boulevard in Greenpoint that could affect a movie studio.
- Johnson called for advocacy against organizations like Transportation Alternatives to prevent them from implementing projects in IBZs.
Christopher Leon Johnson
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Can you hear me?
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Yeah.
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Hi.
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Good afternoon, chair Rios.
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My name is Christopher Leon Johnson.
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Thank you for having us here at Rios.
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Hope you become the speaker over Julie Menon in 2026.
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I know what's going on here with Julie Menon.
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But
UNKNOWN
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I want mister Johnson.
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I'm staying on topic.
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I'm staying on topic.
Christopher Leon Johnson
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I'm staying on topic.
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So back to the topic at hand about IBCs.
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We do need them in the city of New York.
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We do really need them.
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I live near, not near it, but I live in around almost near it, like, east of New York.
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I mean, like, Fort Lauderdale, Carroll Heights.
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But the city council and I hope that you as a chair, really brings attention, very soon or next year, 2025 or 26, that, we need to make sure that, certain organizations, that are hell bent on putting bike lanes, open spaces, delivery chargers and e bike charging stations are not allowed to open shop in those areas.
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Just recently in, like, in the newspaper, people found out about Long Island City that they was trying to put a bike lane inside Long Island City in Businessville, which is home to a big time industrial area.
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We need to put more legislation in the city council to prevent bike lanes and, any, bike structures to be into the IBZ zone because what's going on is that, people who have a McGinnis Boulevard, which is in the district of Lincoln Restler, that they put a bike lane on McGinnis Boulevard, which is around the industrial area on in on Greenpoint, which is going to completely very soon move away a big time movie studio that does law and order.
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But we need to if we don't protect the IVZs, by make preventing bike lanes and delivery charging stations and all this type of, like, unnecessary, initiatives into being in in these zones, these zones are gonna be slowly eliminated.
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And I hope that, these various organizations that that I was I was so busy doing other panels and over the city, back here in my house, testifying right now that they start advocating against these organizations like transportation alternatives and LDU, to make sure that they don't open shop in their areas because most of it happens, they're out of business.
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So thank you, chair.
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I gotta go.
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Enjoy your day.
