Overview

ANHD’s Rezoning Technical Assistance program provides strategic and technical support for community groups engaged in campaigns around large-scale rezonings. The language and processes of rezonings are often confusing, disempowering, and exclusionary. ANHD’s work helps ensure that marginalized community members have the knowledge and power to exert control over land use decisions and their impacts.

The Project

When residents of marginalized communities have control over land use decisions, the future of their neighborhood can be shaped by the needs and priorities of those who live there instead of by the dictates of real estate developers and the private market.

ANHD works toprovide community groups with the data, policy, political and procedural knowledge and tools they need to engage the City and our elected representatives on an equal footing to advance their own local vision for their communities.

The neighborhoods we have worked in include East New York, Jerome Avenue, Gowanus, Stapleton, Bushwick, Chinatown/Two Bridges, Southern Boulevard, and Long Island City – and we continue to seek to provide support wherever possible.

Recent Blogs and Media

Blog
January 8, 2016
An overflow crowd packed into Brooklyn Borough Hall today for the City Planning Commission's public hearing on the de Blasio Administration's proposal to rezone East New York/Cypress Hills. This is the first major rezoning of the de Blasio era, and the first concrete test of the comprehensive, neighborhood-based planning approach that this Administration has committed to taking.
Blog
November 4, 2015
Mayor de Blasio has set a big task for his administration by introducing three major zoning policy initiatives in September. With so many zoning proposals, it is easy to be overwhelmed. But each proposal needs to be  understood on own its merits.
Blog
October 7, 2015
Last week’s City Limits article details the collapse of the long-contested Rheingold Brewery development deal.  The Rheingold saga teaches an important lesson that is especially relevant today because of the many upcoming rezonings.

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