The development of 84 affordable apartments in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx is the first project to get fast tracked under a new public review process.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
An affordable housing project in the Bronx will be the first to undergo a faster public review process
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Last year, voters approved faster public reviews of new housing
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The new review process was shortened to three months, from seven months\u00a0<\/p>\n
The $69 million development, called the PowerHouse Aparments, will get its public review expedited under a process that voters approved through a ballot referendum last year.<\/p>\n
“We will use every tool in our arsenal to build housing more quickly,” Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Dina Levy said.<\/p>\n
The Mott Haven development is eligible for up to $31 million in city money. It’ll be built on a city-owned parking lot for a school next door and feature a community theater, workforce training center and outdoor green space.<\/p>\n
Homeowner Philbert Jeffrey, who lives across the street, has a problem with project: 30 of the 84 apartments will be set aside for formerly homeless New Yorkers and have social services on site.<\/p>\n
Jeffrey said the neighborhood already has plenty of social services.<\/p>\n
“It’s all shelters and drug treatment centers,” he told NY1 of his neighborhood. “We’re getting more than our portion.”<\/p>\n
To Jeffrey, putting the project on a fast track is like giving residents there the short shrift.<\/p>\n
“Instead of fast tracking it, let’s take time and get hear what the neighbors say about it,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Elsie Encarnacion, the new Democratic council member for the district, backs the project.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Our job is to make sure that support is steady and it benefits everybody in this community by having it here,” she said.<\/p>\n
Ray Santiago, another homeowner across the street, said he plans to organize against it.<\/p>\n
“We’ll see what we can do, get a little group together and go to wherever they’re holding the meetings,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The development of 84 affordable apartments in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx is the first project…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[2908,109,25,128,13408,2907,9,24,12,63,87,129,131,130,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-140681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-app-housing","9":"tag-app-local-state-politics","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-bronx","12":"tag-dan-rivoli","13":"tag-housing","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-the-bronx","20":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","21":"tag-the-bronx-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}