Community groups are asking the City Council to delay hearings set for next week on Mayor de Blasio’s ambitious but controversial affordable housing plan.
De Blasio wants to build or preserve 200,000 affordable units, but needs two zoning plans to do it — one to allow more density, and another to make affordable housing mandatory in any development that gets city approval.
But some housing activists fear his plan’s moving too fast.
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“These proposed new zoning tools will impact not only the physical characteristics of new housing construction, but who will be able to afford to live in them,” said a letter from the Met Council on Housing and 34 other groups.
“We are concerned that the speed with which the administration has pursued these changes has not allowed for maximum public participation.”
They’re asking for the Council to instead hold hearings in the evening in each borough so more people can attend.
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Community boards around the city have voted down the plans, but the City Planning Commission voted Wednesday to approve them.
A Council spokesman said the two hearings would go on as planned next week.
