http://www.dailyslope.com/2005/11/16/south-slope-zoning-battle-over/ Community website for the Park Slope neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:45:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.dailyslope.com/2005/11/16/south-slope-zoning-battle-over/#comment-49 mhn Sat, 26 Nov 2005 20:17:55 +0000 http://www.dailyslope.com/wp/2005/11/16/south-slope-zoning-battle-over/#comment-49 This was not a victory for the community. Home owners have had their property devaluated, prices of condos and apartments are kept artificially high (the two are not mutually exclusive) and all this done in a back-handed way. If you truly wanted to do this in a democratic manner it would have been voted on by the public, by the home owners, during the November elections. Instead you rob people of their property, of their hopes and dreams and congratulate yourselves on your victory. This was not a victory for the community. Home owners have had their property devaluated, prices of condos and apartments are kept artificially high (the two are not mutually exclusive) and all this done in a back-handed way. If you truly wanted to do this in a democratic manner it would have been voted on by the public, by the home owners, during the November elections. Instead you rob people of their property, of their hopes and dreams and congratulate yourselves on your victory.

]]>