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OUTRAGED: Gowanus public-housing resident Monica Underwood joined the locals who disrupted the recent meeting by loudly demanding that
city offi cials formally present their rezoning scheme. Photo by Julianne Cuba
LOUD, NOT CLEAR
Chaos erupts at Gowanus rezoning meeting over lack of presentation
A long-awaited public meeting
about the city’s proposal to rezone
after its hundreds of attendees
Locals turn
to kids to
help win
budget vote
brooklyn outlet
The lack of a city-led presentation
3906 2ND AVE
INDUSTRY CITY, BK
BY JULIANNE CUBA
a chunk of Gowanus devolved
into a shouting match,
arrived to fi nd that offi cials
would not present their plan,
but instead expected locals to
passively learn the future of
their neighborhood by staring
at posters on the walls.
up to
60% off
about the scheme —
which Gowanusaurs and pols
spent the better part of two
years crafting — was a slap
in the face to locals hoping to
hear more from offi cials after
they hosted a similar session
following the release of the
plan last year.
“We want a real meeting
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BY COLIN MIXSON
Talk about getting out the
youth vote!
Park Slopers are mobilizing
some of their youngest constituents
to win an upcoming
participatory-budgeting vote to
create a tool-lending library for
school gardens in the area.
“Eleven-year-olds can vote
for participatory budgeting
and not enough is being done
to speak to those crucial and
infl uential voters,” said Kathy
Park Price, a local mom and
advocate for the more than
20 school gardens within her
school district. “Expanding
the electorate to the 11-yearsand
up population will be critical
to our success.”
The tool-lending library
scheme will again be among
the options that residents can
elect to fund via Councilman
Brad Lander’s (D–Park Slope)
participatory-budgeting process
this year, after it lost by
a narrow margin in last year’s
vote. A rep for Lander confi
rmed that locals as young as
11 can cast ballots in the poll,
which opens on March 30.
The library, which comes at
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