Queens Daily Eagle: Won tells Council to vote ‘no’ on Innovation QNS

The largest proposed rezoning in the history of Queens is in peril after the local councilmember on Thursday evening told her City Council colleagues that she’s opposed to the project and urged them to shoot it down when – or if – it comes up for a vote in the coming weeks.

In a leaked email to her colleagues first reported by Politico and obtained by the Eagle, City Councilmember Julie Won told the Council’s 50 other members that Innovation QNS, a massive, 5-block development proposed for a corner of southeast Astoria, didn’t meet her affordability standards. Won also expressed a number of other concerns, including worries that the project would result in the displacement of immigrant and low-income residents in nearby areas, a number of whom vigorously opposed Innovation QNS throughout the city’s ongoing review of the project.

With the Council often deferring to the local councilmember’s preference when it comes to land use decisions, Won’s lack of support could spell the end for the controversial project that previously failed to gain the favor of the local community board and Queens borough president.

Read the full article here: https://queenseagle.com/all/2022/10/14/won-tells-council-to-vote-no-on-innovation-qns