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By EDDIE SMALL, Crain’s New York Business
New York City may move forward with its Gowanus rezoning, a Brooklyn judge ruled Monday.
Judge Katherine Levine of the state Supreme Court has lifted the temporary restraining order that had kept the rezoning on hold for months following a lawsuit from community groups Voice of Gowanus and Friends and Residents of Greater Gowanus. The groups had argued that holding virtual public hearings instead of in-person hearings for the rezoning was against the law.
Levine had expressed skepticism of the community groups’ arguments at two hearings on the case in January and February, but she declined both times to fully lift the restraining order.
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