[JennysCool]

More jobs for the up-and-coming Irritating Bureaucrats.

[pepsionice]

You have to wonder....what idiot decided that regulation needed to be created to hinder or forbid roof-top gardens in the first place, and they are...trying to write another regulation to allow them (under certain conditions). In the end, this will be some 200-page regulation, with roof-top inspectors, and roof-top themes.

[headstamp 2]

[Brooklyn Borough President Adams said, “We’re not talking about our mom and dad growing tomatoes in the backyard, we’re talking about the potential of having major farming on rooftops to deal with food deserts. This is the wave of the future.” He’s referring to the 14,000 acres of rooftop space that’s currently unused and, if converted to gardens, could have the potential to feed millions.]

“First thing we need to do is regulate it to death so its cost prohibited” he later asserted.

[4Liberty]

Who’s going to do the work? They are going to have to cut welfare to able bodied people first...

[firebrand]

I wonder why our virtue-signaling City Council does not do something about all the little lakes in the intersections after every rainfall. So people don’t have to walk out into the avenue to get around them. I thought De Blase and company were trying to reduce pedestrian casualties?

[Wuli]

First off: “you may also be surprised to know that NYC has the country’s largest urban agriculture system”. Well, there is no “system”. A totally unorganized collection of things is not a “system”.

Second: Instead of adding any regulations the issue needs only one LAW, which says that such matters as “roof gardens” are not a matter to be regulated; that if there are issues they are issues for whoever owns the building and for whatever company is holding the insurance policy for the issue. Additionally, there should be NO regulation as to whether goods produced in “roof gardens” can or can’t be sold in the city.

These changes would maximize the possibilities of roof gardens with zero specific regulations about them, BECAUSE there’d be zero regulations about them.

[montag813]

Eric Adams?? The virulently racist former cop and Black agitator who used to spar with the late, great Bob Grant on the radio? I can’t believe that little thug is now Brooklyn Borough President. Then again...I guess it makes perfect sense.

[montag813]

BrightFarms CEO Paul Lightfoot reports that doing business in big cities like New York, Chicago and Washington is, “devilishly difficult and expensive and slow.” And according to Jason Green, co-founder of Edenworks, a Bushwick aquaponic farming company that has raised $3 million in investment in two years, “There’s a barrier to entry here. It’s often up to the operators to work through a fragmented regulatory and incentive environment and figure out who you are accountable to.”

So BrightFarms paid off the politicos to REGULATE a perfectly good system to make tiny farmers "accountable" and put them out of business.