At last night’s CB6 Land Use meeting, there was a presentation by the NYC Department of City Planning on the rezoning of the Gowanus, Here’s an excerpt from Pardon Me for Asking. And there’s more at Curbed, in a post titled, 25 Blocks Worth of Change in the Gowanus. PMFA has pix, too.

Another evening, another meeting….this time, it was the monthly gathering of the Community Board 6’s Land Use Committee. On the agenda was New York City Planning’s presentation of the rezoning framework for the Gowanus Canal.

Under discussion is a 60 block area between Park Slope and Carroll Gardens which is now zoned industrial. City Planning has broken the whole into five sub-areas and into different use-groups, including residential and retail use.

I don’t know about you dear reader, but every time I go to a meeting dealing with the future of the Gowanus Canal, the debate comes back to the most important factor: the pollution from decades of environmental abuse. Without fail, the subject was brought up by members of the audience as well as by at least one Land-Use Committee member.