| Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation

Contact Local Elected Officials About Univ. Pl./Bway Rezoning

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State Senator Liz Krueger
State Representative Deborah J. Glick
Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer

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Thank you for your strong support for the University Place/Broadway Rezoning proposed by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. With the Mayor's proposed "Tech Hub" on 14th Street, it's critical that you fight to finally get this rezoning approved.
 
Without this rezoning, the Mayor's "Tech Hub" plan will only make a bad situation worse.  Right now there are multiple oversized, out-of-scale developments planned on and just off University Place and Broadway between Union Square and Astor Place.  The Mayor's plan, which is intended to cement a "Silicon Alley" from Astor Place to Union Square and beyond, will only accelerate this disturbing trend in this mostly residential area.  It's critical that we get this rezoning passed before any "Tech Hub" is approved  on 14th Street that would only spur further oversized, largely commercial development in this area.
 
Please stand with the local community and Councilmember Rosie Mendez to tell Mayor de Blasio that his 14th Street "Tech Hub" plan should not proceed until and unless the University Place/Broadway rezoning, which will preserve the scale of the area and encourage the retention or creation of affordable housing, is approved.

The 3rd and 4th Avenue corridors are also experiencing inappropriate commercial development which is replacing housing and limiting the opportunities to preserve or create new affordable housing.  The "Tech Hub" plan will only make this worse.  This can be solved by reducing the allowable size of commercial development in this district, thus making new development in this inclusionary zone more likely to be residential and more likely to preserve or create affordable housing. I urge you to support this.

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