Gale Brewer Calls De Blasio ‘Totally Wrong’ as Boards Reject Zoning Plan
(DNAINFO) Danielle Tcholakian and Jeff Mays | November 30, 2015 — Mayor Bill de Blasio was “totally wrong” to downplay the power of community boards over his controversial citywide rezoning plans, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer said, right after voting it down.
De Blasio has said that he and the City Council make decisions while community boards “are appointed to give input” and “don’t have a perfect vantage point on their communities,” even as a majority of community boards across the five boroughs come out against the plan.
“He shouldn’t have said that. It was wrong,” Brewer said Monday morning after she and a majority of Manhattan’s community boards also voted against the zoning plans.