With the city seeking to woo housing developers, its first comprehensive review of historical protections in many years comes as some neighborhoods see such rules as a line of defense against high-density housing.
In the end at Tuesday's City Council hearing on Mayor Gloria's Housing Package, it was 7 to 1 "yay" to one "nay". The long, contentious debate over the controversies of the plan that's lasted weeks if not months came to a conclusion - the last time the council voted on the package, it was 5…