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Staten Island Community Board District 2 District Profile |
By Mark E. Ruquet
A temporary change in New York City's Zoning Ordinance should help those of us caught up in the bureaucratic quagmire that is preventing Build it Back from completing the remediation of 1,000 homes on Staten Island.
Community Board 2 voted to support the Superstorm Sandy Recovery amendment that would allow work to go ahead with necessary construction and dispense with proving that the structure existed in its current state prior to 1961.
Here is the Staten Island Advance's coverage of Tuesday night's meeting (Click here) - with a quote from your's truely. I am so pleased to have been there to help out and take us all a step closer to putting this disaster behind us.