The City Council on Wednesday approved the rezoning of 230 blocks in Jamaica, Queens, marking the fourth neighborhood rezoning approved during the Adams administration.  The plan is expected to create 11,800 housing units, of which 4,200 will be permanently affordable. The rezoning includes the largest Mandatory Inclusionary Housing zone — which requires a certain percentage of housing units to be set aside as affordable — ever mapped in the city.  Before approving the proposal, the City Council reduced the density allowed in areas south of downtown Jamaica and removed portions of certain districts along the southern corridor from the rezoning. The […]

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