I hope you will join me in attending and speaking out for the health care needs of our neighborhood on the West Side of Manhattan at the March 6th City Council Land Use Committee to approve or reject the Rudin Real Estate Corporation's Development plan to place 450 luxury condos where St Vincent's stood for over 150 years and converting the O'Toole building at 12th and 7th Ave into two 23 hour observation bed Urgent Care Center which will not be able to care for people in a life or death health crisis.
This will be the last time the PUBLIC will be allowed to SPEAK
I will speak against the plan and in favor of the O'Toole building being converted into a 300 bed hospital with a real emergency room that respects the zoning and land marking designation for the location. Until the Rudin's agree to support a hospital I, and I hope you, will opposed their development that has no affordable housing and destroys the zoning rules and puts profit above the health needs of a community. .
It is for me a life or death vote by the City Council.
Please attend and speak up. Our collective bodies and voices can still stop this plan.
Here are some of the rules I was told by Speaker Quinn's office that will be in place for the public hearing.
SHOW UP please.
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Please be advised that if you plan to speak at the land use committee meeting, the last public meeting prior to the City Council vote on the Rudin Development plan at 250 Broadway on March 6th you must SIGN UP PRIOR TO THE BEGINNING of the meeting which STARTS at 9:30 AM. If you remember on Yetta's LOBBY DAY security checks made it was almost impossible to get upstairs to meet with Council people prior to their leaving their office to hear Boss Quinn give her Speaker's State of the City Council speech. It takes time to go through security. PLEASE note that I did ask Quinn's office about the size of the room and the ability of the public to both watch and participate. I am sharing the response despite the warning attached to Quinn's office response that it was confidential information. Remember that at the final CB2 meeting the room was filled with construction union members (paid to be there ) and Rudin PR and legal reps who had their seats held by people paid to arrive early and sit in the seats . So I suggest you arrive at 8AM to both sign up to speak and be in the room.
Hope to see all of you there
jim fouratt
please forward to your friends and neighbors ..and if you know someone who lives in NYC...thanks
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Mr. Fouratt,
The hearing on Tuesday is a public meeting, and therefore all attendees will have the option to testify. We are prepared for a large turnout, and there will be additional rooms from which those who arrive after the hearing room has been filled will be able to watch the hearing.
Best,
Allie Nudelman
You can sign up prior to the hearing starting at 9:30. They will be calling names so you'll be able to hear your name being called from the other rooms, similar to the City Planning Commission hearing. The chair of the Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises is Council Member Mark Weprin.
