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    Enforcement of sex shop rules halted

    CityLaw  •  Zoning  •  Citywide

    Adult entertainment businesses continue their decades-long fight against zoning rules that restrict business locations. In the latest installment in the City’s efforts to restrict adult entertainment establishments, a federal court enjoined enforcement of the City’s zoning resolution. This is the latest court action in a series of actions that began in 1994. (more…)

    Tags : adult entertainment shops, CityLaw, zoning
    Date: 01/07/2021
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    Reducing Racial Bias Embedded in Land Use Codes

    CityLaw  •  Housing Justice

    Even though the Supreme Court struck down race-based land use controls over a hundred years ago in Buchanan v. Warley, 245 U.S. 60 (1917) it has long been known that zoning continues to create or increase racial and economic segregation. Today communities across the U.S. are reexamining their zoning regulations to create more equal, equitable, inclusive, and resilient communities by removing requirements, limitations, or prohibitions that disproportionately and negatively impact individuals based on race or class. (more…)

    Tags : affordable housing, CityLaw, housing, housing justice, housing reform, land use codes, racial bias, Rezoning, tenant protections
    Date: 11/30/2020
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    Outdoor advertising charges upheld

    CityLaw  •  Outdoor Advertising

    The center building, 23-06 Jackson Avenue, features a banner advertisement on top for John J. Ciafone’s law practice. This location was one of the ones in dispute in this case. Image Credit: Google Maps

    Building owner advertised his personal law firm on residential buildings that he owned through separate corporations. Attorney John. J. Ciafone has part ownership in four different real estate corporations that own five residential or mixed-use buildings in Queens and Brooklyn. At each of his five residential buildings, Ciafone installed signage on which he advertised his personal law firm. The law firm was separate from the real estate corporation that owned each building. (more…)

    Tags : CityLaw, department of buildings, OATH, outdoor advertising
    Date: 09/12/2020
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    CityLaw Profile: Anita Laremont, Executive Director of the Department of City Planning

    CityLaw  •  CityLaw Profile  •  Anita Laremont

    In August 2018, City Planning’s Chair Marisa Lago appointed Anita Laremont as the new Executive Director of the Planning Department. Laremont joined the Department as General Counsel in 2014 and has served New York City and State in public positions for over 35 years. (more…)

    Tags : Anita Laremont, CityLaw Profile, Department of City Planning, Executive Director of DCP
    Date: 07/22/2019
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    Billboard Law Challenge Fails

    CityLaw  •  Billboards  •  Willets Point, Queens

    Billboards on Citi Field as seen from a highway. Image Credit: Google Maps

    Advertising companies sought to erect outdoor billboards in the Willets Point neighborhood. Mucho Media and other property owners in Queens’ Willets Point neighborhood sought to construct large advertising billboards on their property. For safety and aesthetic reasons, the City denied or ordered the removal of billboards in the Willets Point neighborhood. These actions were pursuant to the City’s zoning law that prohibits commercial billboards within two hundred feet of an arterial highway. (more…)

    Tags : advertising, billboards, CityLaw
    Date: 05/29/2019
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