To the Editor:
Re “Questions of Taste in Queens” (news article, July 5):
So much for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s much-ballyhooed efforts to preserve lower-density neighborhoods in the boroughs outside Manhattan.
Queens’s residential neighborhoods are still caught up in a building boom whose major accomplishment seems to be tearing down older homes and replacing them with the behemoths described in your article.
While the new houses may be legal, paving over every square inch of open space and walling in the product to create a fortress is not.
Residents of these neighborhoods have been fighting for a minor change in a zoning resolution that would save these graceful older neighborhoods — but the Department of City Planning has been too busy accommodating developers whose plans are closer to the mayor’s vision of an ever-growing city than the aspirations of longtime homeowners in Queens.
Patricia Dolan
President
Kew Gardens Hills Civic Association
Flushing, Queens, NY
July 6, 2008
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