Since Purnima Kapur's appointment as Brooklyn City Planning Director in 2006, four rezonings covering over 470 blocks have been passed (Dyker Heights, Fort Greene/Clinton Hill, Bedford-Stuyvesant and Grand Street) and she is overseeing at least 10 more covering 800 blocks: Dumbo, Gowanus, Coney Island, Flatbush, Sunset Park, Greenpoint and Williamsburg, Canarsie, and Brighton Beach. She literally has a hand in deciding the size, shape, density, composition and sometimes even aesthetic of Brooklyn blocks. Sometimes millions of dollars in property value for a single parcel are at stake, and rezonings have been known to stop projects at the beginning stages of construction.
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