It pains me to write this, because I’ve dealt with a wonderful staffer at his office, but I’m shocked, although I shouldn’t be, by my Council Member Bottcher’s decision to betray the city by supporting the outrageous proposal to lift all caps on residential construction. This is an act of planning insanity and urban extinction.
You cannot claim to be a progressive and be a toady for the realtors.
NYC has a a housing affordability crisis. It also has an overdevelopment crisis. Both of these crises will be exacerbated by this terrible provision.