Thursday, October 22, 2009

No enforcement of zoning text amendment

When parts of Bensonhurst where successfully rezoned a couple of years back, supporters where partly hoping to combat the growing proliferation of illegal curb cuts and parking pads.

Now, however, it appears that those efforts might not be enough to stem the tide.

Neighbors in Bay Ridge recently found that out when they saw owners of row houses in their community successfully install concrete parking pads in the front of their homes despite new zoning regulations ostensibly designed to thwart such efforts.

“When you drive up a block you want to see a front garden or a strip of grass,” Community Board 11 District Manager Marnee Elias-Pavia protested this week.

In response to the continuing problem, Community Board 11 is appealing directly to Mayor Mike Bloomberg, asking him to support a new measure that would grant the Department of Transportation power to restore illegal curb cuts.

“After a violation is issued it just stands there,” Elias-Pavia said. “It has no bite.”

The problem is the DOT would have to want to do this and they clearly have a different agenda.

6 comments:

Now tell this to the morons in Astoria that is buying Vallone's assurances that the upzoning they are going through (anything built to accommodate growth is an upzoning dipshits) is going to take care of stuff like this.

It will not.

But since no one is reaching out to them they are going to buy the bag of goods hook line and sinker.

Guess who is going to be stuck with the infrastructure costs?

Oh no, not them. Half of Astoria are already illegals.

Its gonna be you sucker!

(PS Infrastructure needs? What infrastrcuture needs? You mean we can discuss that too? Oh I see Mr Vallone. We can discuss that when the zoning is done.)

Spotted a piece of Queens Crap in your community?

Please note

Italicized passages and many of the photos come from other websites. The links to these websites are provided within the posts.

Why your neighborhood is full of Queens Crap

"The difference between dishonest and honest graft: for dishonest graft one worked solely for one's own interests, while for honest graft one pursued the interests of one's party, one's state, and one's personal interests all together." - George Washington Plunkitt

Sites that kick ass:

The above organizations are recognized by Queens Crap as being beneficial to the city as a whole, by fighting to preserve the history and character of our neighborhoods. They are not connected to this website and the opinions presented here do not necessarily represent the positions of these organizations.

The comments left by posters to this site do not necessarily represent the views of the blogger or webmaster.