As residents of the Community Board 5 area we want to help strengthen our neighborhoods. We believe a stronger community is the more likely to be safe, happy place for its residents, businesses, and families to live and grow in. Community Board 5 and surrounding areas offer valuable resources which. Community Board Five is chartered by the City of New York to serve as the citizens’ voice for midtown Manhattan, the city’s central business district. We weigh in on a wide array of community issues that affect the people who work, visit and live in our district.

Community Board 7 only has an advisory vote when it comes to the land-use review phase of Riverside Center, but that hasn't stopped the group from laying down the law and telling developer Extell how the Upper West Side megaproject should look. If you recall, Extell wants to take the parking lot on the 59th to 61st Street side of its Riverside South neighborhood and build five towers (with 2,500 apartments and a 250-room hotel), oodles of retail (including a movie theater), a school, a car dealership, an 1,800-space underground parking garage and more. We would be a testy one, and the list of complaints regarding the plan is long. But for every problem, there's a suggested fix, like eliminating a whole building! Extell will be cool with that, er, right? In an e-mail alerting constituents to two upcoming public meetings on the plan, CB7 lists a number of 'community concerns' about Riverside Center, including its design 'as an exclusive enclave built on a 'podium' not integrated with the urban grid,' its excess of parking and lack of affordable housing, its not-very-green auto dealership and its public space that is 'not welcome, accessible or useful to the public.'

For that latter issue, and a few others, CB7 recommends removing the 31-story Building 4 from the design (the shortest of the proposed towers). The board would also like to see Riverside Center built at grade, so that West 60th Street can be extended to Riverside Boulevard, instead of becoming the Extell has planned. There are other requests as well, such as that 20% of the apartments remain permanently affordable, but we have a feeling Extell boss Gary Barnett has already stopped reading, so we'll wrap it up. Here CB7's before-and-after comparison: [Curbed] UPDATE: The filed a report about the first Community Board 7 meeting regarding Riverside Center, which Gary Barnett attended, and warned, 'We know there’s going to be input going forward.

We welcome that. There's only so much we can give up.' Like 31 floors?

A Los Feliz resident, Bajracharya has worked in recent years in leadership positions in charter schools or pro-charter organizations. Her children attend a district-run neighborhood elementary school.

Unified, she says, has failed to create “a culture of excellence and high expectations for all students.” She wants the district to move as quickly as possible to require students to earn a C or better in courses required for admission to a four-year state college. She strongly opposed the teachers’ strike but also says it helped galvanize support for better funding for public education. • The state of the district: She says the low number of district students who graduate from college is “outrageous” and says she would give the district a grade of C- at best. But she also says that L.A.

43 kanal tuapse programma peredach live. Unified is recognizing the need to be more responsive to the community by adding new magnet schools and thinking in a more innovative way about the progression of students from kindergarten through 12th grade. She believes the district makes it far too hard for parents to have input. • Charter schools: She opposes a moratorium but also doesn't think the solution for the school system is to “charterize” it.