{"id":540763,"date":"2024-11-26T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/?p=540763"},"modified":"2024-11-26T08:41:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T13:41:58","slug":"gownaus-rezoning-bid-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/development\/gownaus-rezoning-bid-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Gowanus Locals Move to Form BID to Protect Businesses, Longtime Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Kirstyn Brendlen, Brooklyn Paper<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Three years after the Gowanus rezoning was formally approved, its impacts are sweeping through the neighborhood. Construction is underway at dozens of sites across the neighborhood and some all-new buildings have already topped out and filled with tenants. <\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/Gowanus residents and businessowners are working to build a Business Improvement District in the nabe.\" target=\"_blank\">the rezoning <\/a>included more than just new residential buildings. When politicians green-lit the upzoning in 2021, they also agreed to abide by 56 Points of Agreement \u2014 things the city would do to ensure it would benefit the existing residents of the neighborhood, not just the approximately 20,000 new ones expected to move in as a result of the rezoning. <\/p>\n <span class=\"plp-active-page\"><span class=\"\">%<\/span><\/span> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/development\/gownaus-rezoning-bid-effort\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"\">%<\/span><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/development\/gownaus-rezoning-bid-effort\/3\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"\">%<\/span><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/development\/gownaus-rezoning-bid-effort\/4\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"\">%<\/span><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/development\/gownaus-rezoning-bid-effort\/5\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"\">%<\/span><\/a> | <a 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