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Good morning, commissioners.
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My name is Adam Broadheim, and I live on the upper west side.
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I hope you get by thanking DCP staff for all of their hard work as a community board member.
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I'm really grateful for their help in walking us through.
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Both answering questions and being there late at night when we had last minute questions.
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The unprecedented attendance at this meeting is a testament to their incredible diligence and commitment to New York City.
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As a housing researcher, I've looked at that community.
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I've seen how the upper west side is shrinking because people combine a Brooklyn stuff that they want to build.
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And for too long, we haven't had the tools to make that we build new housing to replace that, which is lost.
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I'm so excited for you to see.
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I have a degree in historic preservation, and that's what I do So I wanna focus on one proposal that I think is really important not just to the upper west side, but all of New York City, easing the transfer of development rights for landmark buildings.
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The upper west side is our versus seller development rights, allowing new housing, while giving a financial lifeline to these congregations.
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The church of Saint Paul the Apostle, West End Khalifa, and St.
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They've all been successful transfers that have helped preserve the critical aspects of our neighborhood character.
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Yet, we have a tragic situation on 86th Street with a landmark search that is in desperate need of money for repairs, the cancel their error rates under the card regulations.
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The changes you are considering today will ease that burden and make it easier for religious and cultural institutions to find a path or in our increasingly challenging city, while helping our city to build homes and build community.
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The whole city of YesPlan is great, but I quickly wanna call out the other specific proposals that are particularly compatible with integration, including office presidential conversions, any parking minimums.
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Legalizing ADUs and making changes to zoning and campuses, all of these allow for new density in our historic districts without changing what makes the historic districts important.
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I hope today is Christopher Staffing combating New York City's housing crisis.
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I hope we can continue to find ways to allow our city to grow, so we can continue to thrive, and I can continue to tell everyone I need.
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And I hope you submitted the funds on as strong as possible for me.
