Mayor Eric Adams has positioned the Atlantic Avenue Mixed-Use Plan as one of two significant neighborhood-level rezonings that could help boost his “moonshot” goal of 500,000 new units of housing over the next decade.
The city unveiled new plans for the long-planned rezoning of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn late Wednesday, but residents swiftly expressed concerns about getting pushed out of their own neighborhood and fears that new development would not be affordable. The new draft zoning framework is an early step in a process set to transform an important stretch of Brooklyn that’s been rapidly gentrifying .
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A neighborhood plan to transform a stretch of Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue for residential and commercial use is in the works but not without some community concern.