Zoning for Dollars is Wrong

A developer cannot purchase property at inexpensive residential prices, change the zoning, and then sell the property at severely inflated commercial prices. This type of real estate speculation would ruin our healthy, stable, historic neighborhoods.

An Alternative Development Proposal for this block.

"Franklin Adams, noted architect, has designed just one example (shown below) of what an appropriate RD-2, residential development on this block could look like. Here the height, mass, and architecture complement the surrounding neighborhood. We want neighbors who will greet us at street level. We do not want a vertical gated community cut off from the neighborhood."
- Sheldon Hersh, MD, Speech given to the City Planning Commission, 1/27/04