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26
Oct
New York,
This summer, elected advocates introduced a potential law (view it here in the “attachments”!) that would require NYC’s Department of City Planning to develop a comprehensive urban agriculture plan by July 2018 to promote its expansion in our city. City Council’s Land Use Committee is having a hearing on the bill. Come share what should go in the plan and how it should be developed so that it supports you, NYC’s resident community growers! We will offer specific ways the plan and…
15
Jun
New York,
Urban Renewal Area planning has left acres of abandoned city-owned lots in NYC’s neighborhoods that had already suffered decades of disinvestment caused by legally-instituted racism. We have long been holding the city accountable to its abandoned Urban Renewal Area Plans via our tool urbanreviewer.org. Now the City is making moves to hold itself accountable! On Thursday, June 15 at 2pm (City Hall’s Council Chambers), join 596 Acres and fellow advocates as we testify to City Council about Intro 1533-2017, potential…
11
Jan
New York,
Join us at City Hall to demand changes in the New York City tax lien sale! We will be asking for two key changes to be made to the bill: adding effective protections for Not for Profit & Faith-Based Organizations an end to the City giving away its leverage over neglected and abandoned properties in our neighborhoods by selling unpaid tax debt to a private speculative trust Here is some background: “For Sale: Nonprofits,” http://urbanomnibus.net/2016/11/for-sale-nonprofits/ “Take Community Property and Vacant…
11
Jan
New York, 10007
The City will hold a final disposition hearing about the give-away of over a dozen neglected public lots in Brownsville on Wednesday, January 11 at 10am at the Municipal Building at 1 Center Street. The give-away of these lots will add 11 to 84 public lots that have gone from the City to private for-profit developers since January 1, 2014. 596 Acres will testify specifically about four lots onHinsdale Street between Blake and Sutter where neighbors have been organizing for a…
