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Cathleen Shannon from A Better College Point Civic Association on concerns about City of Yes proposal's impact on local population and infrastructure

10:30:02

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Cathleen Shannon, a board member of A Better College Point Civic Association, requests a 'no' vote on the City of Yes proposal. She expresses concerns about overpopulation, parking issues, and strain on local infrastructure in College Point.

  • Highlights the area's existing overpopulation and limited transportation options
  • Emphasizes the need for maintaining mandated parking due to car dependency in the area
  • Raises concerns about overcrowding in schools, public spaces, and the lack of enforcement of current laws
  • The area is already overpopulated
  • Against building that doesn't make sense
  • Concerns about losing mandated parking
  • Limited transportation options in the area
  • Safety concerns on subways
  • Schools and public spaces are already overcrowded
  • Lack of enforcement of current laws
  • Insufficient infrastructure and public services (police, teachers, inspectors)
  • Request to alter the plan

[EXPERIMENTAL]

Which elements of City of Yes for Housing Opportunity were discussed in this testimony?

  • Parking Mandates

The following are AI-extracted quotes and reasoning about which elements of the proposal were discussed in this testimony.

This is a quick, close approximation. Occasionally, the connection between a testimony's transcript and specific elements of City Planning's proposal is tenuous.

Read about this AI-generated analysis here.

Parking Mandates

"I think if you lose the mandated parking, it's gonna create even more problems."

This quote directly addresses the proposal's element of removing parking mandates. The speaker expresses concern about the potential problems that could arise from removing required parking.

"The parking is a big thing in this area and the and the cars because we have limited transportation available, and that new transportation plan is far from perfect."

This quote further elaborates on the speaker's concerns about removing parking mandates, emphasizing the importance of parking in their area due to limited public transportation options.


About this analysis:

This analysis is done by AI that reasons whether or not a quote from the testimony discusses a particular element of the proposal.

All the prompts and data are open and available on Github.

You can search for testimonies that mentioned a specific element in the table on the main meeting page.

When an element is explicitly stated in the testimony (e.g. "Universal Affordability Preference" or "UAP"), the analysis is accurate.

But the connection between a quote from the testimony and an element of the proposal is sometimes implicit.

In these cases, the AI might eagerly label a testimony as discussing a proposal when the connection is tenuous, or it might omit it entirely.

↗ Why are there transcription and diarization errors?
Cathleen Shannon
10:30:02
My name is Kat and Shannon.
10:30:03
I am a member of the Better College Point Civic.
10:30:09
I'm part
10:30:09
of their board.
10:30:12
And I am writing, I guess, when I was writing, I am talking to you about requesting that you vote no to the city of yes proposal.
10:30:24
And I know not gonna go over all the reasons because I've heard them, like, a hundred times today.
10:30:31
I've been here since 9 o'clock too.
10:30:33
But Our biggest concerns in this area are we are ready
10:30:43
overpopulated
10:30:46
town.
10:30:47
We have we're also against the we're not against building.
10:30:53
That's not what we're against.
10:30:54
We're against we're we're against building that doesn't make sense.
10:31:00
We understand that there's a how housing shortage, and we do obviously don't wanna see people living in tents and stuff like that.
10:31:08
But I feel like there are a lot of other solutions that everybody's just ignoring and trying to push this thing through.
10:31:22
I think that our town has already suffered a great deal because of local population.
10:31:30
I think if you go if you lose the mandated parking, it's gonna create even more problems.
10:31:37
There'll be traffic keep I mean, in our area, we need a car.
10:31:42
They were our neighbor our properties will become less desirable.
10:31:48
We may they'll be, like I don't know.
10:31:52
The parking is a big thing in this area and the and the cars because we have limited transportation available, and that new transportation plan is far from perfect.
10:32:02
And also, you're what people to go on the subways where they're not safe.
10:32:07
I I end up driving my kid back and forth to Manhattan to visit her friends because I don't want her to take the subways because I'm afraid of all the things that are going on.
10:32:18
And that's just not me.
10:32:19
I mean, I don't know.
10:32:20
I also feel like our schools, our public spaces, everything is already overcrowded.
10:32:26
And we don't there's no enforcement of the current laws.
10:32:32
There is no I mean, we have numerous problems with our parks, our streets, our community, our stores, everything because of the lack of enforcement.
10:32:43
And now we're gonna have we don't have enough cops.
10:32:46
We don't have enough teachers.
10:32:47
We don't have enough I don't know.
10:32:50
Just we don't have enough people inspectors and everything that are supposed to be overseeing the current situation.
10:33:00
So I guess I would like to see this plan altered in some way.
10:33:06
I'm So I don't
10:33:08
want to.
10:33:09
But, I mean, that's so I I agree with Vicki Paladino and Joanne and all the ideas and most pressing concerns about
Dan Garodnick
10:33:19
Okay.
10:33:20
Thank you very much.

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