City Planner Amanda Burden
Nice little profile article in the Daily News about Amanda Burden, the city planner in charge of zoning in NYC. Zoning is a major deal anywhere, determining how much residential, how much business, and how much mixed-use development there will be in any given neighborhood, among other things. As a result, Burden works with the real estate developers, and the person in this position can be viewed as either a savior or the devil.
The article points out a number of big projects she’s in charge of, and mentions two in Queens: that in Jamaica, which consists of 368 blocks rezoned for hotels and high-rises near the Air Train transit hub to JFK, and via a lead picture, Queens Plaza in LIC. Sounds like she’s a pretty popular and successful part of the Bloomberg administration; take that as you will.
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City planner Amanda Burden shapes the future of the world’s greatest city [NY Daily News]
