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City planning commissioner floats rezoning Soho

Politico New York

June 20, 2018

City Planning Commission Chairwoman Marisa Lago said Tuesday that modernizing zoning in Soho was on the commission's 'priority list' at a Citizens Budget Commission event. 'If there is one thing that everybody agrees on, it's that the current zoning in Soho, Noho is broken. It just doesn't work,' Lago said during the question-and-answer portion of the talk. But rezoning Soho would be an uphill climb, she said, because of the 'wide array of views' people have in the area about what a rezoning would entail. 'I don't kid myself that this is easy sledding, because we have multiple communities there,' she said. 'We have large retailers. ... We have smaller boutique retailers, we have the artists, we have the few remaining manufacturers who generally own their buildings. And we have artists and other residents who are there.

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