New Yorkers Warn Kathy Hochul’s ‘Incomprehensible’ Zoning Plan Will Demolish the Suburbs (DS wants this nation wide. Next 15 minute cities) https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/22/new-yorkers-warn-kathy-hochuls-incomprehensible-zoning-plan-demolish-suburbs/ Kathy Hochul, governor of New York, during a Hudson Tunnel project event at the West Side Rail Yard in New York, US, on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. President Biden is taking a victory lap today as officials prepare to begin work on a massive rail plan hard-pressed New York City …Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images/Stephanie Keith/Bloomberg JOHN BINDER22 Feb 2023551 3:10 New Yorkers living in the suburbs outside of New York City say Gov. Kathy Hochul’s (D) zoning plan to override local laws would effectively demolish their communities, forcing them to accept hundreds of thousands of new housing units.
After failing to impose the plan last year, Hochul is once again attempting to strip the state’s suburban communities of their zoning autonomy with a plan that would force suburbs to build a percentage of new housing and if they do not comply, the state will take control of their local land use laws.
In an op-ed, Bronxville Mayor Mary Marvin writes that her village of just 6,600 residents would be required by the Hochul plan to build 75 new housing units by the end of 2027. Marvin suggests that the plan would force Bronxville to accept more than 10,000 housing units in the village which is far beyond the community’s existing 2,600 housing units.
“The ramifications of this proposal to our Village are enormous and quite frankly incomprehensible,” Marvin wrote, urging residents to contact Hochul’s office.
In total, Hochul’s plan would mandate that New York’s suburbs accept nearly a million new housing units even if such density flies in the face of local zoning laws.
"Bold leadership is required right now," Hochul says in Johnson City of her controversial housing plan, saying there is a shortage of affordable housing that is driving people out of the state.
More here, via @JanakiChadha:https://t.co/ADuj03FGDQ pic.twitter.com/YXsvnNMYAZ
— Joseph Spector (@JoeSpectorNY) February 22, 2023
Even Democrats have raised alarm over Hochul’s plan, according to Politico:
“There’s a lot of resentment when the state or a regional entity tries to come in and tell people how they should make their communities. It’s not a winning strategy,” said Laura Curran, the former Democratic Nassau County executive who was defeated by Blakeman in 2021. [Emphasis added]
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“There’s hardly a word that you can poll that polls worse on Long Island than state mandates,” said Michael Dawidziak, who is based in Suffolk County and has worked with both Republicans and Democrats. “To me, this is not good politics for the governor.” [Emphasis added]
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“I’d rather not override zoning,” Latimer, a former state senator, said. “But I think it’s important to disconnect the narrative that exists out there, which is, the city wants to develop housing and the suburbs don’t. The suburbs are not monolithic.” [Emphasis added]
Gov. Kathy Hochul faces faces pushback from municipal leaders on her plan to build more housing in the state by overriding suburban zoning laws. https://t.co/AzJXq98k5Z
— Olean Times Herald (@OTHNews) February 15, 2023
On Long Island, local activists have said they will not stop fighting Hochul’s plan until it is thrown out. Angie Carpenter, representing the town of Islip, told the Center Square that local officials are already working to create more housing that is in line with their community’s zoning standards.
Real-estate donors who gave big to Gov. Hochul could soon reap 421a tax breaks https://t.co/lkaPyGbWW9 pic.twitter.com/FKtHQ3Tx0X
— New York Post (@nypost) February 13, 2023
“New York state is attacking our right to govern ourselves, decide what our neighborhoods look like, to turn us into the city,” Carpenter said. “I will not let that happen.”
Real estate developers and investors served as huge campaign cash bundlers for Hochul’s reelection bid last year against former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R). A new report details how the governor’s zoning plan would funnel loads of taxpayer-funded tax breaks to those donor
Its not incomprehensible when you know that the end goal is to destroy the suburbs. This has actually been going on in other areas since the Obama administration but they used the carrot approach with increased federal funding.
This balrog is so evil that Satan chucked her out of Hell. Remember when she declared that she wanted New Yorkers to be disciples of the vaccine.
Remember the power of “NO”.
This has been discussed at my local Republican Committee meeting recently. Opposition to this bill is mobilizing for a while and, hopefully, Hochul's gonna get bitch slapped like before.
Wrecking the suburbs has long been the left's wet dream. I lived in a nice exurb of a large city. The dems wanted to pillage our high property taxes to fund their shitty failing schools because of MuH EKwittY and all.
Obama tried to wreck the burbs too. Basically by trying to pass laws overriding local zoning laws on high rises in "those" areas - white and affluent. Of course a lot of shitty developers were slavering over the thought of building high rises out in the burbs, charging the govt. out the ass for it, and pocketing the money. Instead of moving to Cabrini Green, Cabrini Green now moves out to your town! And of course "they" get to still live in gated communities.
Anyone want to bet that there were fat envelopes slid underneath tables for that one? That's the thing people miss about the left. It's all about the power and money couched with a thin veneer of morality with a heaping portion of sanctimony added for good measure.
There's a lot of gated communities in prisons.