Recent town hearings on property rezoning for a Wal-Mart expansion drew fierce debate.
Similarly, rezoning can pose significant headaches for real estate owners who are counting on the appreciation of their rental property.
It remains uncertain whether the rezoning proposal can deliver this, or aims to be as comprehensive as it could be.
The planning service is also urged to consider rezoning unused industry land for housing where it is unused for a lengthy period.
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But the city would promise the necessary rezoning of the land for new construction only to the Jets, so the deal was still stacked in their favor.
The project's groundbreaking was delayed by a rezoning, which was opposed by some community members concerned about increased traffic and pollution, and then by the economic downturn.
The Department of City Planning will be releasing more detailed design guidelines on April 8 in its race to get the rezoning certified before the Bloomberg administration disperses.
Nor can the city continue to withhold the necessary rezoning previously promised only to the Jets and left hanging as an ambiguous risk factor for other contenders for the site.
In 1982 rezoning to move development west to Times Square worked all too well, significantly tamping down growth in Midtown East, now at a pitiable 0.06% over the past decade.
They endorse rezoning for increased density permitting, in particular, a cluster of five to six buildings, 700 to 900 feet tall (the Chrysler Building is 1, 046 feet), west of Grand Central around Vanderbilt Avenue, with slightly smaller towers marching up Park.
New Yorkers shouldering their way through Grand Central Terminal's trench-coated crowds, braving the high-heel-grabbing grates along Lexington Avenue or coursing the taxi slalom around the Met Life and Helmsley buildings may not be following the hotly contested plans for rezoning Midtown East.
Covering 78 blocks that fan out around Grand Central and up Park Avenue, from East 39th Street to East 57th Street, and from Fifth Avenue as far as Second Avenue, the rezoning proposal was first presented by the Department of City Planning in July 2012 and updated with more details on Feb. 28.
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