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Complaint about the Coyle Avenue project and its unexpected conversion to a shelter
1:25:00
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Council Member Salamanca expresses strong disapproval of the situation regarding a project at 2134 Coyle Avenue, where an approved affordable housing development was unexpectedly converted into a shelter. Acting Commissioner Tigani clarifies that it was not an HPD project.
- Salamanca describes the situation as 'irresponsible and wrong,' noting that the community initially opposed the project
- He highlights Council Member Narcisse's efforts to gain community support for the affordable housing project
- Salamanca accuses the property owner and developer of a 'switch and bait,' resulting in a shelter being built instead of the approved housing
- Tigani clarifies that the Coyle Avenue project was not an HPD-subsidized project, but possibly subject to MIH or 421-a
- Salamanca calls for HPD to take note of the developers, lobbyists, and contractors involved in the project
Rafael Salamanca
1:25:00
Yeah.
1:25:01
And then I wanna close with this.
1:25:03
I've been in in communications with my colleague, council member Narcisse, Mercedes Narcisse.
1:25:09
I think what happened to her in this project at 2134 Coyle Avenue was irresponsible and wrong.
1:25:17
Where we came here, we approved an affordable housing project where the community was not in favor of it.
1:25:24
The councilwoman went out of her way to speak to community members to get them on board.
1:25:29
She did that.
1:25:31
We approved the land use.
1:25:32
We rezoned it, and then the property owner and the developer did a switch and bait on her and gave that property to someone else, and now a shelter's being built there.
1:25:42
This is how you lose trust in a community.
1:25:44
And I hope that you find out who the lobbyist is, who the developer is, and who the general contractor was that signed in because I'm pretty sure that you did all the numbers.
1:25:54
Oh, it's not
Ahmed Tigani
1:25:55
an HPD project.
1:25:56
It was not an HPD project?
1:25:57
No.
1:25:57
This is my understanding.
1:25:58
Coil?
1:25:59
My understanding is that this was a mixed income project that didn't come through the HPD pipeline.
1:26:05
There's a there's a discretionary project, but they may may be subject to either MIH or four twenty one a, but it wasn't a subsidized HPD project.
Rafael Salamanca
1:26:13
Well, hope that we take notice, HPD takes notice of who the developer was, the lobbyist was, and who the general contractor was, and that there's a rest stain on their record for doing a a and switch on council member Narcisse and on this body.
1:26:28
Thank you.