NEIGHBORHOOD STATISTICS 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2009 2008 2010 2011 2013 2012 2015 2014 From 1992 - 1999 4250 manufacturing jobs left the neighborhood From 1990 - 2000 67% increase in median rents Population growth of 2.8% 8% decrease in Hispanic population 1.5% decrease in black population 10% increase in white population NOVEMBER BLOOMBERG ADMINISTRATION JANUARY JANUARY 19th From 1989 - 2000 Vacant land decreased by 30% Residential increased by 45% In 2000 CB1 ranked as one of the poorest neighborhood with 35% percent of the population living below poverty line. Urban OCTOBER 2002 - 2013 Amanda Burden Director of City Planning By the City Planning Commision on rezoning proposal Draft Environmental Impact Statment Points of Contention: - Distributions of park space - Affordable Housing - 85% Development in Greenpoint - 100% park space development in Williamsburg 31sq/f per person ration = 1/3 of DCP recommended ration (100 sq/f) or 1/5 city wide average (152 sq/f) MARCH 4th FEIS ISSUED Community 197 - a PLAN 6 years collaborative planning process to develop a plan as DCP recognized advisory document. Plan passed in 2002. This Lead CB1 to create a REZONING TASK FORCE in repsonse to the cityâ€™s proposed zoning. REZONING ADOPTED CPCR BUYS THE DOMINO SITE CPC Resources, the for-profit arm of Community Preservation Corporation and Brooklyn developer Isaac Katan - buys for $55,831,875, STRIKE @ the Domino Sugar Factory. One of longest strike in New York History. JANUARY 4th RFP COMMUNITY BOARD PRESENTATION 2004 2007 DOMINO SUGAR FACTORY CLOSES LANDMARK STATUS After 148 years of activity. Over 225 workers lost their jobs. To three buildings of the Domino Sugar Factory. MEGAN SPERRY ON ELLEN RAND FROM ART 101 â€œBloomberg was a very top down guy, he was like this is my vision, these are the people that fit within it and this is what we are going to do. A lot of back door conversations. And a lot of people think De Blasio is going to change everything but if you look at who is surrounding him it is a lot of Bloomberg and Gulliani people. So not a lot of change. On the surface De Blasio looks like change but in reality he has a lot more work with a lot less resources.â€? â€œWe watched the Domino thing pretty carefully. When the Domino closed we were told we would get another manufacturing [use]. Big lie number one. So then CPC wanted to buy it. They were just given a green light by the city their EIS was incorrect so we went and did one ourselves and we tried to present it to the city, to city planning.....The city never kept any promises, look at these towers we had no input. You know our plan was to make something like the Tate modern which would have been ideal for the community.â€? Fall 2012 APRIL To Two Trees Management for 185 Million Dollars â€˜Undervaluedâ€™ CONSTRUCTION Breaking ground of HAVEMEYER PARK June - construction wraps up â€œIf you look at the protests before 2005 and going into 2010 you can get 100s of people to show up today I donâ€™t know if you can. A lot of people that were active have moved. Have been pushed out. The neighborhood has changed a lot and its really hard to activate rich yuppies to involved in social protest. 2005 was a huge defeat and Domino on top of that was like bam bam its hard to find people who think you can fight against any of that in the neighborhood.â€? MEGAN SPERRY ON STEPHANIE (Save domino) CPCR â€œ We partnered with Save Domino a little bit but they werenâ€™t well organized. But Stephanie has been an opponent from day one, people say its selfish but thats not true. She is concerned about it because of the environmental impacts. She owns a lot of manufacturing in the neighborhood so its like she saw the neighborhood she grew up in get demolished. At community meetings people would point the finger and be like sheâ€™s crazy. But she was always right. Whatever she said she could always see before whatever anyone else saw. Then she partnered a group of younger people who kind of ushered the idea of Save Domino and thats when it kind of lost its impact. Because its like an older community resident who has very specific ideals about the community partnered with a younger hipster group of people who don't really understand her intentions and her voice.â€? â€œ When we were making the film we didnâ€™t know that CPC would go bankrupt a lot of people were asking show me your books, show me the money, can you afford to do this development? They said trust us, trust us trust us. Ultimately because of the leverage they had at city council they were able to get the project accepted as it was and okayed. A couple months later they werenâ€™t doing anything and we knew they didnâ€™t have the money. Six months later rumors were flying that they already went bankrupt and Two Trees were already eyeing it. Two Trees was going to officially buy it.â€? KARA WALKER EXHIBITS @ DOMINO by Creative time - Jed Walentas is Board member and co-chair. 2013 BUSHWICK INLET PARK RYAN KOUNEN ON 16 Acres unbuilt of the 28 Acres promised in 2005 REZONING RELATIONSHIPS with opposition groups. â€œIt got ugly and I would say that this would be a lesson learned to other communities. CPCR was genius at going in and sort of dividing very much along racial lines. From the very beginning they courted the latino groups and the churches so many times when NAGG went up we were called racists, you are these white gentrifiers who are against this, and on the side you had like the radical Williamsburg Independent People who were like you arenâ€™t doing enough look at you you talk to those people...part of what's ugly in this ULURP process is that all these non-profit groups who need money to keep going. So if you have a developer who is willing to fund your project you are going to agree with them. MAY 10th RFP by Two Trees Management Land leased to: Bobby Red North Brooklyn Farms Brooklyn Bike Park Open Space Alliance Later Tipi Project â€œ(those in favor of the plan) in the film really got screwed the most because they put their identity on the line for CPC and then CPC was basically like sorry highest bidder. The individual relationships that they had with the church groups were ruined and the benefits that they were promised were never given.â€? MEGAN SPERRY ON (Save Domino - probably behind this) DOMINO SITE SOLD MEGAN SPERRY ON RYAN KOUNEN ON NYC MAYORS Against development - projection â€œBuy Back Dominoâ€? THOSE IN FAVOR PROTESTS 2382 signatures and delivered to Amanda Burden PROTEST ARCHITECTURAL PROPOSAL APPROVED By architedct Raphael Vinoly PETITION MAY 30th Six members of CB1 approve plan despite lack of transparancy from CPC. Jose Leon (St Nicks alliance), Marie Leanza (St Nicks alliance), Karen Nieves (EWVIDCO), Israel Rosario(Los Sures), Robert Solano (Churches United For Fair Housing) and Esteban Duran (Churches United For Fair Housing). Some argue that they have benefited in some way in the past from dealings with CPC. Unveiled by CPCR proposal to build 2,200 housing units. 30%, or 660, of the new apartment units would rent at a below market rate. One-hundred rental units would be designated as affordable for families making $21,000 a year; 330 for those making up to $40,000, and 100 for seniors who make up to 50% of the median income for the area. The remaining 130 "affordable" units would be offered for purchase to families making up to $90,000 annually. By HAO Architects and community group, Williamsburg Independent People for a worldclass cultural centre inspired on the Tate Modern in London OCTOBER 1st Stop destruction of Historic Domino Sugar refinery and review the ALTERNATE PLAN @ Woods (bar) to the community. This was orgnized by NAGG and MC by Ryan Kounen CB 1â€™s Land Use Committee reject CPCâ€™s plans for the â€œNew Dominoâ€?. FEBRUARY 18th Votes discussed with De Blasio Presiding meeting: Carl Weisbrod (Newly appointed City Planning Chairman) (Real Estate Industry insider) WHAT IS NEW ABOUT DE BLASIOâ€™S APPROACH? 24 in favor, 4 against NOVEMBER PROPOSAL UNVEILED FEBRUARY 23rd â€œDOMINO PLANâ€? Acting chair Kenneth Knuckles DECEMBER 10th ALTERNATIVE PLAN IS UNVEILED MARCH 19th First community board presentation ULURP presentation by CPC on the Domino Sugar Factory proposa JULY With 700 Affordable units in exchange for additional 20 storeys in 5 buildings. (Alter Zoning Regulation) CB1 VOTES â€˜YESâ€™ for temporary proposala for SITE E of Domino Sugar factory. FEBRUARY 9th Lead by community member Stephanie Eisenberg Proposed alternative plan: A public art centre Issued by OPEN SPACE COALITTION (Non profits and community organizations) Main goals: â€œ- Ensure existing and future community open space needs are met in proposed redevelopment and rezoning, - Create public funds that match private sector proposed open space developments to ensure contiguous and timely development, - Create a legacy of Brooklyn Waterfront open space with development of active and passive recreational areas served by connecting pedestrian and bicycle f acilities, and - Establish public oversight and management of private open space development to guarantee complimentary programming and design standards.â€? Narratives Submitted by Two Trees New proposal unveiled designed by SHOP architects 2284 Residential Units 80,000 sq/f ground floor retail space 630,000 office space First community board presentation ULURP presentation by CPC on the Domino Sugar Factory proposa SAVE THE DOMINO PLATFORM REPORT GWAPP Greenpoint Waterfront Associtation for Parks and Planning JULY SPECIAL PERMIT CB1 VOTES Neighbors Allied for Good Growth believes is should be retained as a national landmark and remain unaltered. This is agrred by: Waterfront Preservation Alliance Landmark Conservancy RENEGOTIATED PLAN (ULURP) PUBLIC HEARING MARCH MARCH 9th NAGG MARCH 3rd Council and De Blasio Approves JANUARY 22nd Christine Quinn as Speaker and in favor. Concerned about new influx of people (communiting and real estate value) APRIL 2013 - END of year Amanda Burden Director of City Planning leaves position - VACANT â€œThe council voted UNANIMOUSLY to approve the rezoning changes after 6 years of debates and hearings. CB1 Outside City Hall for lack of provisions given to the: - 197 - a Plan - Collaborative work of GWAPP - + other local and city wide civic org. Joe Vance - Activists speaks out Christine Holowacz - Activist and board of GWAPP In response to DEIS. This report influenced the formal response by the Rezoning Task Force. Core of report to propose alternate height / bulk study. 2000 The developer has NOT secured financing. PROTEST GWAPP ISSUES REPORT Site With CPCR to discuss the proposa and initiate a community engagment process (ULURP) CPCR repsond and refuse with the excuse that they arent ready. Approved the six ULURP actions for the Greenpoint-Williamsburg Rezoning, with several modifications to the zoning text amendment and the zoning map change. NOVEMBER â€œ197-a plans are a participatory planning tool developed in the mid-1970s that allow community boards to sponsor and draft community based plans. Once passed by DCP and City Council, 197-plans serve as advisory plans for future private and public developments within a community district.â€? The CPCR proposal for rezoning the Domino Sugar Factory The proposal includes: 660 affordable housing units 2200 housing units and 60,000 sq/f of retail space. PUBLIC HEARING By CB1 Rezoning Task Force (RTF) Chris Olechowski, Chairman Issues raised: - â€œThe rezoning must be the forum to execute visionary Affordable Housing developments. - The Height and Bulk of the proposed plan does not reflect the communityâ€™s existing, or desired, character and scale. - The language regarding Mixed-Use zoning is not effective for maintaining a mixed-use neighborhood. - The location and amount of Open Space fails to meet even the Cityâ€™s own standards. - The Shore Public Walkway must be continuous and serve to celebrate and protect natural features.â€? 1996 - 2002 JUNE 27th MARCH 14th RESPONSE TO DEIS On Loans for the Domino redevelopment CITY COUNCIL APPROVES CB1 DEMANDS A MEETING DCPâ€™s Greenpoint-Williamsburg Rezoning Adopted and FEIS approved NOVEMBER 23rd C.P.C.DEFAULTS JULY 29th Results in below 20% promised affordable housing built and a fraction of the public space built. MAY 11th MAYOR DE BLASIO ELECTED Spring 2012 As Council memeber of District 33 Williamsburg as neigborhood with most housing development stalled. Final Environmental Impact Statment On October 4, 2004, the Department of City Planning certified the ULURP application for the proposed actions. STEPHEN LEVIN APPOINTED HOUSING MARKET CRASH PUBLIC HEARING DEIS ISSUED Under the supervision of Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff, Burden initiated the rezoning process for the Greenpoint and Williamsburg waterfront. DENISE CERMANSKI FROM TIPI PROJECT ON HAVEMEYER PARK DENISE CERMANSKI ON SAVE DOMINO â€œI don't know who it comprises. I think a lot of people in the building on Wythe, basically the Domino sugar redevelopment screws up their view. I approached one person to do some work in the park, and she said you know they are just using us for PR and my views will be screwed up by that.â€? â€œIt s park that feltâ€Ś you could feel the human touch in the park. It brought the community together, I met more people from my community at that space than most other space, the next space is going to coffee shops. I think the success as well is that it was a incubator for people to have a concept, execute the concept and grow, it was a tremendous opportunity for the organisation that were blessed to be a part of it. I think that all and all it was a huge success.â€? Jed Walentas and Dave Lombino on PUBLIC PROCESS â€œ Maybe discussion should exist less among the public and more amongst experts.â€? â€œ There is a process issue and a substance issue.â€? MEGAN SPERRY ON TWO TREES â€œTwo Trees met with all of the organizations as anyone would do and identified what the needs were. But what they did differently was they identified with the future of the community rather than with past. â€? RYAN KOUNEN ON PROCESS â€œFrom the beginning Two Trees came and did a presentation for NAGG. 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