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Diana Finch from Bronx Park East/Pelham Parkway on City of Yes for Housing Opportunity and potential caps on new development

13:01:34

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Diana Finch, a resident of Bronx Park East/Pelham Parkway, expresses support for the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity initiative while addressing concerns about its implementation and impact. She critiques the opposition's exaggerated fears and suggests potential compromises to address valid concerns about the pace and scale of new development.

  • Proposes including caps on the amount and pace of new building allowed by City of Yes
  • Highlights the need for clear data or projections on how quickly the new amendments would be utilized
  • Raises concerns about the impact of the campus provisions on New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) green spaces
  • Supports City of Yes for Housing Opportunity
  • Believes opposition is based on exaggeration and fear mongering
  • Emphasizes that not all allowed new buildings will be built immediately or ever
  • Suggests including caps on the amount and pace of new building allowed by City of Yes
  • Shares personal experience of new apartment buildings in her neighborhood within current zoning regulations
  • Expresses concern about the impact of campus provisions on NYCHA developments
  • Highlights the importance of green spaces for quality of life in her neighborhood

[EXPERIMENTAL]

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

  • Campuses

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.

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Campuses

"I'd also like to thank Commissioner Goodrich for her excellent questions about how the campus provisions would impact nightges. Well, my neighborhood does have some institutional campuses with underused green space. Our niches, Pelham Parkway Houses, and Parkside have much needed green space essential to their quality of life that I'm sure residents don't wanna give up. Especially not to private development."

This quote directly discusses the campus element of the City of Yes For Housing Opportunity proposal. The speaker acknowledges the existence of institutional campuses with underused green space in her neighborhood, which aligns with the proposal's aim to utilize such spaces. However, she also expresses concerns about the potential loss of green space that residents value, showing that she is aware of and discussing this specific element of the proposal.


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Diana Finch
13:01:34
Thank you.
13:01:34
My name is Diana Finch.
13:01:36
I live in Bronx Park East Pelham Parkway Neighborhood in one of the community board districts that has added the least new housing recently.
13:01:43
On the city of yes for housing opportunity, I'm in favor.
13:01:46
I'm dismayed by the way that most of the opposition I've heard seems to be based on exaggeration and fear mongering.
13:01:53
Well, too many on all sides seem to be ignoring or downplaying the role of the environmental impact statement in the process.
13:02:01
City of Yes is a text amendment.
13:02:03
Not a developer specific project seeking Uler approval.
13:02:07
Thus, not every possible new building that would be allowed by city of yes will be built, not in immediately, and in many cases, not ever, current property owners would retain control of whether to sell or whether to build themselves.
13:02:21
Yet the opposition portrays the result as if all the allowed new building would spring up as soon as city of yes is passed.
13:02:30
If city planning has data or projections on how quickly the new amendments have passed would be utilized, it would be so helpful to share that information widely with the public.
13:02:41
I've been following the presentations pretty closely and have not seen it yet.
13:02:45
On the other hand, perhaps a good compromised solution would be to include caps on the amount and pace of some in the new building that would be allowed by city of yes.
13:02:56
The neighborhood I live in is an r 6 zoning.
13:02:59
And in the past 2 years, within a twelve square block area, 10 new six and seven story apartment buildings have gone up.
13:03:08
Each one in place of either a 1 or 2 family house or an empty lot, all within the current zoning regulations, but yet with a significant impact on the local community.
13:03:20
Based on this experience, I think that concerns about maximum capacity building are valid.
13:03:27
Even if they're being grossly exaggerated by the opposition.
13:03:31
And I urge city planning to consider, including some type of cap on the amount or pace or both of the allowed new building.
13:03:39
I'd also like to thank Commissioner Goodrich for her excellent questions about how the campus provisions would impact nightges.
13:03:46
Well, my neighborhood does have some institutional campuses with underused green space.
13:03:52
Our niches, Pelham Parkway Houses, and Parkside have much needed green space essential to their quality of life that I'm sure residents don't wanna give up.
13:04:02
Especially not to private development.
13:04:04
And as long as the Fair Class Amendment banning new public housing construction remains unrepeeled.
13:04:11
Thank you very much for listening through this very long day.

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