News and Notes: December 2011
Good Cheer, Fourth Avenue Retail Rezoning Approved, Station Development, and Helping with Shoveling
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Advocacy
One Step Closer to Permit Parking?
The Civic Council offered testimony for residential permit parking at a City Council hearing on the subject. “We are sure that the benefits of reduced congestion and increased safety for all users of local streets will be immediate and substantial.”
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Hoboken: Lessons for Park Slope
Hoboken faces a problem familiar to any Park Sloper: too many cars and too few places to park them. Members of the Civic Council recently toured the city to explore the innovative ways it is approaching these problems and how those solutions could be imported to Brooklyn.
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Mapping the Details of Fourth Avenue
A comprehensive assessment and user-friendly map of conditions along Fourth Avenue will help the Civic Council’s FORTHonFourth group’s work for a better community.
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Comment: Coming Together for the Community
A while back, a few Park Slope Civic Council trustees had the idea to devote an upcoming issue of Civic News to the question, “What is the Park Slope Civic Council?”
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Improving Our Public Spaces
In March 2006, the Park Slope Civic Council devoted its annual community forum to issues of traffic and transportation. More than 200 audience members gathered in the Old First Reformed Church’s sanctuary to listen to panelists discuss traffic calming and placemaking, residential parking permits and Atlantic Yards, and more.
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Working for a Greener Slope
Park Slope should be a model community for sustainability and responsible stewardship. To this end, the Civic Council focused its 2008 annual forum on sustainability. The Sustainability Committee was formed some two years later.
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Preserving Local History
Only about a quarter of our Park Slope neighborhood is landmarked. Outside of the Park Slope Historic District, buildings can be demolished, altered in inappropriate ways, or stripped of their architectural features. The Civic Council is committed to redressing this oversight by getting protection extended.
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Moving Fourth Forward
FORTHonFourth, a subcommittee of the Livable Streets Committe, seeks out opportunities to get involved now, at this inflection point of growth along the avenue, and help contribute to its future.
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Keeping an Eye on a Megaproject
If you’ve been past the corner of Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues during the last 18 months, you have seen the Barclays Center arena taking shape. Whatever your views about it, the arena’s existence is now certain.
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