Proposal to Turn Car Storage Into Human Housing Hits Brooklyn CB6 Tonight
Just a reminder that today at 6 p.m., Brooklyn Community Board 6 will hold a public hearing about the conversion of a 230-car garage on Union Street into a mixed-use building with housing and retail.
While traffic on Union Street is bound to improve without all that car storage generating car trips, some nearby residents are mobilizing against the project by feeding fears of neighborhood-scale carmaggedon. The opponents even got the Park Slope Food Coop to help drum up turnout against the conversion.
Approval for this project ultimately rests with the Board of Standards and Appeals, not the Community Board, but if you believe that it's better to use scarce city land to house people instead of cars, it will help to speak up at the meeting today.
Here's where to go:
Prospect Park YMCA
357 9th Street, 7th Floor
(between 5th/6th Avenues)
6:00 p.m.
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