At 1 p.m. tomorrow, the eyes of the world will be on a City Planning Commission Review Session in Spector Hall at 22 Reade Street, where the city will make a formal, public presentation of its controversial rezoning plan for Coney Island. Last week the Mayor's Office of Environmental Coordination quietly released their Final Draft Environmental Impact Statement, which outlines how the city will rezone the area to encourage the development of towers up to 27 stories tall, expanded retail spaces, 4,500 new housing units (800 of which would be built to be affordable units), and a new 27-acre indoor-outdoor amusement district to be dubbed the "People’s Playground."
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