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What We Stand For

The Coalition to Preserve Community brought together groups and individuals dedicated to promoting the vitality and diversity of our neighborhoods and to preserving the residential character of our community. We have been holding regular and open meetings for over three years. We are united in our determination to promote a development that addresses the community's basic needs as articulated at our meetings:

  • Housing. Preservation of all the remaining community housing stock. No deregulation of rents in private or institutionally owned housing. No privatization of public housing and no cutbacks in existing subsidy programs. Additionally, all new housing must contain significant proportions of units available to long term community residents at costs accessible to the existing income levels in the community.

  • Jobs and Economic Development. Protection of and creation of locally owned businesses. Creation of jobs for CB9 residents that pay living wages and offer future opportunities. That includes training programs and educational opportunities to address disparities in existing skill levels.

  • No biotech or any other environmental practices with potentially hazardous consequences for the community's wellbeing.

  • Provision of social services needed for the community's wellbeing, particularly for senior citizens, supervised youth activities, and health care delivery.

  • Respect for the historical and architectural integrity of the neighborhood. That means preservation of historic structures and new structures contextual in size and bulk to their surroundings.


CPC is unequivocally opposed to any primary displacement of community residents and businesses. That means NO EMINENT DOMAIN. AND we insist on compensatory mechanisms to address secondary displacement issues in the areas listed above.

We enthusiastically support Community Board 9's 197A Plan because it substantively articulates the community's vision of its future and as such addresses our basic concerns.

We urge you to join us in ensuring the survival of this marvelously diverse, vibrant and viable community.