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
October 6, 2015
Zoning has been front and center in the news this fall in New York City. The de Blasio Administration has put forward three new zoning proposals as part of their Housing New York plan. The impact of these zoning proposals ranges from individual property sites, to whole neighborhood areas, to the entire city.
Blog
July 31, 2015
The City has announced its long-awaited Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning Policy. It is a significant step forward in building the equitable city that New Yorkers both want and need.

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