NYC turns up the heat on housing holdouts

Districts had their chance to boost affordable housing. Now it’s being thrusted upon them. This week, the Zohran Mamdani administration unveiled a list of community board districts placed on a so-called fast-track review process for certain developments. The list came about from last year’s charter revision ballot questions. Affordable projects in the chosen community districts would undergo a 90-day review, not the traditional Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, which typically takes around 7 months to complete.  The process starts with the local community board and borough president, then goes to the City Planning Commission for final approval, skipping the typical […]

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