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Commented on Innovation QNS
1 year, 3 months ago
Of course, but your concept is not the answer, which is why CB1 voted to DISAPPROVE your application to build. IQ has been consistently NONRESPONSIVE to the needs and requests this community--- truly affordable housing, offering 50% (ie 1400 units) of your proposed build allocated to tenant occupancy under the "deeply affordable" definition currently in place. Your team has consistently had no data or response to these questions at your workshop events: Did your team even attempt to adjust the project using R6a, R7, and R8 zoning requested by CB1 Housing for contextual integration into existing community? Are you committed to exclusively using union workers in the build? Are the 1700 promised jobs in "retail and building services" offering salaries above $80K annually? Will there be a preference for current area residents in the affordable housing lottery? What specifics surround the "community partnership" programs: what is the design and structure of each program, how will it be executed? Your project is designed purely for profit and lacks any commitment to corporate responsibility in exchange for the opportunity to make a profit. Simply greed at work-- again.
Commented on Innovation QNS
1 year, 3 months ago
Affordable places for people to live
Commented on Innovation QNS
1 year, 4 months ago
Everything I have seen thus far shows a complete disregard for the issues raised by the community. Have you even read this? https://queenspost.com/council-member-julie-won-innovation-queens-leaves-neighborhood-behind
Commented on Innovation QNS
1 year, 4 months ago
Absolutely correct. At 50K, that means $1,041 per month MAXIMUM. By the narrative they are only offering 780 units total and skewing the numbers for window dressing. "you can put lipstick on a pig...."
Supported a comment by Wendi G on
Innovation QNS
1 year, 4 months ago
Wendi G
It seems that Innovation QNS has forgotten how to do the most basic math.... $1500 / $1000 a month income, gross is NOT affordable for folks earning $50K or less. Duh.
It seems that Innovation QNS has forgotten how to do the most basic math.... $1500 / $1000 a month income, gross is NOT affordable for folks earning $50K or less. Duh.
Commented on Innovation QNS
1 year, 4 months ago
To the development team--- talk is cheap. If you truly were committed to this neighborhood, you will NOT attempt to recreate Manhattan. I am not in favor of this proposal, it is GROSSLY out of scale for the area. The low profile of the adjacent area is predominantly residential, and predominantly less than six stories. What needs to be acknowledged is the scale of the proposal will incorporate 2 towers taller than Times Square One, seen globally every New Year's Eve as the ball drops. I have been a renter in this area for over 25 years and chose to stay because it is a truly diverse NEIGHBORHOOD, which is NOT Times Square v2, Williamsburg, Manhattan or downtown Brooklyn in character. Most significantly, the project is NOT addressing what is truly needed in the neighborhood and city in general ---TRULY AFFORDABLE housing for the working and middle class families who are the engine upon which the city functions. That means offering way more than the minimum required by MIH zoning, and offering the affordable units IN PERPETUITY. It means the affordable units offered will be offered at less than a 30% share of the monthly income of every renter. It means affordable senior housing units would be offered in addition to the MIH 25% minimum number of affordable units available to the public housing market serving families in need of affordable housing. Anything less is smoke and mirrors, which your entire campaign is built upon.
Supported a comment by Daniel Horn on
Innovation QNS
1 year, 4 months ago
Daniel Horn
This proposal is vastly out of scale for the neighborhood. The "vision" they outline would still work with max 6 story buildings with the same proposed uses.
This proposal is vastly out of scale for the neighborhood. The "vision" they outline would still work with max 6 story buildings with the same proposed uses.
Commented on Innovation QNS
1 year, 5 months ago
The problem with this "vision" is the scale is completely unsupportable in the area. I can see a 10-12 story design concept as the outer limit of development for this area. Not to mention there is already overcrowding on the available transportation. I do not see the developers offering anything to financially underwrite any additional build up of that element alone, let alone traffic increase and a lack of services. Back to the drawing board is required, and a large reduction in the tax abatement to the developers is also called for.
Supported a comment by Jon Barash on
Innovation QNS
1 year, 5 months ago
Jon Barash
Yes but I do have concerns about the QNS definition of affordable housing. Lately there have been many new developments in the surrounding area that claim to have a percentage of their units allocated to affordable housing but will have income requirements upwards of $80K or 1-Bedroom or are simply still unaffordable by many standards. I hope that the affordable housing at QNS is genuine rather than meeting the bare minimum requirements to check a few boxes.
Yes but I do have concerns about the QNS definition of affordable housing. Lately there have been many new developments in the surrounding area that claim to have a percentage of their units allocated to affordable housing but will have income requirements upwards of $80K or 1-Bedroom or are simply still unaffordable by many standards. I hope that the affordable housing at QNS is genuine rather than meeting the bare minimum requirements to check a few boxes.
Commented on Innovation QNS
1 year, 5 months ago
Without totally accessible PUBLIC space and PUBLIC access for all (IE non-residents of the proposed development), this project should NOT be approved. The developers also need to be legally bound to financially underwrite the additional infrastructure needed to provide services and public transportation to the neighborhood so the community already here is not destroyed. A proposal for development is NOT acceptable for ground breaking without an EIS showing it will not negatively harm the Astoria community already in place. Astoria is NOT about high rise building density.
Commented on Innovation QNS
1 year, 5 months ago
After school STEM programs for children
Commented on Innovation QNS
1 year, 5 months ago
New public revenue that doesn't raise taxes
Commented on Innovation QNS
1 year, 5 months ago
Not without a BINDING LEGAL COMMITMENT from the Developers to FUND the additional infrastructure needed to support this idea. That means an EIS is already complete PRIOR to requesting permission to begin. There is NO TRANSPARENCY in the proposed "vision".
Commented on Innovation QNS
1 year, 5 months ago
Training and supporting resources
Commented on Innovation QNS
1 year, 5 months ago
Email
Commented on Innovation QNS
1 year, 5 months ago
Outdoor fitness
Commented on Innovation QNS
3 years, 2 months ago
Concert hall and theater for events up to 600 people
Commented on Innovation QNS
3 years, 2 months ago
Yes
Commented on Innovation QNS
3 years, 2 months ago
Yes
Commented on Innovation QNS
3 years, 2 months ago
Extremely important. There is almost no green space in the neighborhood. Trees are ecologically helpful and necessary
Commented on Innovation QNS
3 years, 2 months ago
Artist in residence programs
Commented on Innovation QNS
3 years, 2 months ago
New jobs for Astoria residents
Followed Innovation QNS
3 years, 2 months ago
Commented on Innovation QNS
3 years, 2 months ago
Yes, if affordable housing is actually offered according to an economic formula stating 30% of income is the rule. Will studios be offered for people making $40k per year? Capped at $1000 per month per unit? If not, it is a sham