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SAY “NO” TO CITY OF YES (COY)

COY is Mayor Adams’s Planning Commission’s proposal for the future of NYC.

The City Council will vote on it in May. COY will do great harm to our city.

COY deregulates residential protections. COY was drafted by real estate, banking, venture capital and CEO’s, with no community input. Thus large-scale amusements could be allowed in residential districts, completely altering neighborhoods. Small-scale businesses would be allowed in residential buildings. Projects like NYCHA, Lincoln Towers and Towers West would be vulnerable to additional buildings added to their grounds, virtually undoing progressive policies that brought air, light and parks to these communities. The City’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (URURP) protects us now, but COY will enable CPC (City Planning Commission) to make decisions on applications. The list of deregulations goes on, with zero respect for density or location. COY will only make this city more dense and congested, and deteriorate our quality of life.

Contact your council member. Ask them to vote “no” on COY.

CD1 Lower East Side / Soho / Chinatown
Christopher Marte CMarte@council.nyc.gov

CD2 Kips Bay / East Village Carlina Rivera CLRivera@council.nyc.gov

CD3 Chelsea / Greenwich Village
Erik Bottcher EBottcher@council.nyc.gov

CD4 Murray Hill
Keith Powers KPowers@council.nyc.gov

CD5 Upper East Side
Julie Menin JMenin@council.nyc.gov

CD6 Upper West Side
Gale Brewer GBrewer@council.nyc.gov

CD7 Manhattan Valley Shaun Abreu SAbreu@council.nyc.gov

CD8 East Harlem
Diana Ayala DAyala@council.nyc.gov

CD9 Central Harlem
Yusef Salaam RSalamanca@council.nyc.gov

CD10 Inwood
Carmen DeLaRosa CDeLaRosa@council.nyc.gov

CD11 Riverdale
Eric Dinowitz EDinowitz@council.ny c.gov

Committee for Environmentally Sound Development, P.O. Box 20464 Columbus Circle Station, 10023 212 877-4394

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