PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Jeremy Kaplan, Community Board Member of Community Board 7, on Arrow Linen Rezoning
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Jeremy Kaplan, speaking as a Community Board 7 member, expressed concerns about the Arrow Linen rezoning application and the developer's lack of community engagement. He emphasized that the community board voted to ask Arrow Linen to withdraw their application and engage more with the community due to significant opposition from Windsor Terrace residents.
- Highlighted that 95% of community testimony was against the rezoning
- Criticized the developer's condescending attitude and lack of genuine community input
- Called for the creation of a task force to address community concerns and ideas, particularly regarding increased affordability
Jeremy Kaplan
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Yes.
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Yes.
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I may.
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Hi.
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I'm Jeremy Kaplan.
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I'm actually a c b 7, board member, speaking on my own behalf.
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And I just wanted to speak a bit about, the way in which we saw with the community board the behavior of the developer.
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And, just wanna reinforce again that the community board voted, to basically ask that Errol Linden pull the application, engage with the community, because we saw 100 upon 100 of testimony from, Windsor Terrace residents that were against this rezoning.
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And it was, it was pretty surprising actually to see almost a 95 percent, against this rezoning with a lot of very, very sensible recommendations.
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And seeing the lack of disregard for that and the lack of community input from the developer and the way in which they even came to the community board or didn't come to the community board and presented us actually, the day that we voted with a letter that was very condescending to us.
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It demonstrated to me that they had no, real engagement with the community and that they disregarded us, and they they saw us as basically peons or ponds and that they had spent more time, you know, spending money on PR and and trying to, you know, lobby people instead of actually really engaging with the community.
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So I asked basically, that we really listen to this process, that the community board said to pull this application and to do a task force.
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And I'm I'm curious to hear, from council member Shauna Hanif if that has come up, if Arrow Linen has discussed that.
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I'm very much wanna engage in that and would and would like to help as a community board member to proceed with that because I think the community has great ideas.
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I think they're they're clearly focused on having more affordability, and that's what the council member has been saying.
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I think that Thank you.
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Your time's expired.
Jeremy Kaplan
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That everything is is secret negotiations inside