Community board votes down key de Blasio SoHo rezoning plan

The local community board overwhelmingly voted down Mayor Bill de Blasio’s controversial SoHo development plan in a blow to Hizzoner’s last major land use project before he leaves office in December.

“We’re deeply gratified that the community board so roundly rejected it,” said Andrew Berman, head of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation and a lead opponent of the project. Berman and a broad coalition of other opponents say the plan doesn’t provide enough affordable housing, will create developments out of scale with the area’s low-slung, historic character and could actually displace longtime residents.