Your guide to NYC's public proceedings.
REMARKS
Council Member Brewer introduces questions for LPC nominees
0:42:36
·
69 sec
Council Member Gale A. Brewer introduces three specific questions for the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) nominees. The questions focus on criteria for granting hardship, defining demolition by neglect, and the ability of the Department of Buildings (DOB) and LPC to permit restoration without owner approval.
- Questions aim to assess nominees' understanding of key preservation issues
- Topics include hardship criteria, demolition by neglect, and restoration permissions
- Questions set the stage for individual responses from each nominee
Gale A. Brewer
0:42:36
Thank you very much.
0:42:37
I have questions that are very specific.
0:42:40
I wanna know what you think and when you think it's appropriate to grant a hardship.
0:42:45
I want to I wanna hear your definition of demolition by neglect.
0:42:49
And I wanna know what the Department of Buildings and LPC can do to permit necessary restoration without the owner signing off.
0:42:59
I can start with you, mister Chung.
0:43:06
Shall I repeat the question?
0:43:07
Yes.
0:43:08
Yes, please.
0:43:09
When is it appropriate to grant a hardship?
0:43:12
When what is demolition by neglect according to you?
0:43:16
And what can the Department of Buildings and LPC do to permit necessary restoration without the owner signing off?
0:43:23
Those are my three questions.
Keith Powers
0:43:27
How many do you wanna go first?
0:43:30
We'll just go one at a time down the line.
0:43:31
Oh, you're
Angie Master
0:43:32
first.
0:43:32
Okay.
Steven Chu
0:43:38
So let's the the first question was
Gale A. Brewer
0:43:43
When is it appropriate to grant
Robert Firestone
0:43:44
a hardship?
Steven Chu
0:43:44
When is it appropriate to to, deem hardship?