Lawrence Lau offers conditional support if Fontaine agreement is reached
Lawrence Lau, a Fontaine resident and working committee member, says the rezoning would push the building away from the Fontaine compared with as-of-right, and after a town hall no resident preferred rejection; he supports the rezoning conditional on a written agreement.
Hi, my name is Lawrence Lau.
I'm a resident of the Fontaine, the building on lot one.
It's most impacted by the proposed development and would also be impacted by the rezoning.
In addition, I am on the corporation's working committee for the development, and I am actually testifying for the rezoning.
If there was some sort of agreement, conditional to some sort of written agreement.
In short, the rezoning does allow the development to be built closer to Queens Boulevard and away from the Fontaine.
This pushes many of the quality of life issues away from our building.
Okay?
And I can tell you when residents were first made aware of this development,
Many of them were very much against it.
This was in June.
Since then, as a member of the working committee, I've worked with the Fontaine board and the developers to put together some sort of massing that would be more acceptable to Fontaine residents.
As it was communicated to us, what the proposed development looks like,
It's much more favorable to residents than the as-of-right, the one proposed if the rezoning was rejected.
And last week,
Residents had a town, we held a town hall.
And I basically told them they're going to build.
And here are some options.
Here's what it would look like if the rezoning was rejected.
Here's what it would look like if the rezoning was accepted.
Who wants it to be rejected?
And nobody raised their hand.
So I think we've made tremendous progress since June.
And I think everyone in the room would agree with me that when I say that in the next few weeks, I'd like to come to some sort of binding agreement sooner rather than later.
Thank you.
Thank you.
You may begin.