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FOLLOWING BEEP’S INCLUSION OF NEIGHBORHOOD PROTECTIONS
IN TECH HUB RECOMMENDATION,
CITY SCHEDULES PUBLIC HEARING
WITH VIRTUALLY NO PUBLIC NOTIFICATION
for TOMORROW Afternoon, Wed. 5/9

Last Friday, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer released her recommendation on the proposed 14th Street Tech Hub, as part of the required public approval process. Brewer initially pledged not to include the need for neighborhood protections to accompany Tech Hub as part of her recommendation, as GVSHP and many others have called for, calling them “unrelated.”

However, GVSHP worked hard to persuade the Borough President that the Tech Hub without neighborhood protections would accelerate rampant overdevelopment in the University Place, Broadway, and 3rd and 4th Avenue corridors, as did thousands of neighborhood residents who wrote or called her. Following this, Brewer issued her recommendation including mention of the potential impacts upon the adjacent Greenwich Village and East Village neighborhoods and the need for neighborhood protections, as GVSHP has proposed and called for.

Outrageously, directly following this, the City scheduled the sole City Planning Commission public hearing on this matter for this Wednesday, May 9th with virtually no public notification (as of Wednesday morning, the city’s own Land Use Tracking System had still not shown that the City Planning Commission hearing had even been scheduled). Adding insult to injury, this item is scheduled as the LAST item on a long agenda for the day, making it virtually impossible to say how late in the day this item will be heard.

DON'T LET THE MAYOR CUT YOU OUT OF THE PROCESS FOR DETERMINING THE FATE OF YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD!

COME TESTIFY AT THE CITY PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING ON WEDNESDAY AT 120 BROADWAY (Cedar/Pine Streets), LOWER CONCOURSE HEARING ROOM.

Use the letter here as the basis for your 3-minute testimony. We recommend you arrive by 3pm to be able to speak. You can arrive and sign up as early as 10am. We will post the progress of the schedule on Wednesday to our twitter feed at twitter.com/gvshp (you don’t have to be on twitter to access), so you can know when this item is coming up, as well as what number speakers are being called to estimate when you need to be there.

Following the City Planning Commission hearing and vote, the Tech Hub application will go to the City Council, which must approve the plan. GVSHP continues to work closely with City Councilmember Carlina Rivera, in whose district the proposed Tech Hub and affected area lie, to ensure that the Tech Hub is NOT approved UNLESS neighborhood protections for Greenwich Village and the East Village are included.

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FOLLOWING BEEP’S INCLUSION OF NEIGHBORHOOD PROTECTIONS IN TECH HUB RECOMMENDATION, CITY SCHEDULES PUBLIC HEARING WITH VIRTUALLY NO PUBLIC NOTIFICATION for TOMORROW Afternoon, Wed. 5/9

FOLLOWING BEEP’S INCLUSION OF NEIGHBORHOOD PROTECTIONS
IN TECH HUB RECOMMENDATION,
CITY SCHEDULES PUBLIC HEARING
WITH VIRTUALLY NO PUBLIC NOTIFICATION
for TOMORROW Afternoon, Wed. 5/9