A plan to rezone a large swath of Long Island City is now with the City Council after winning the overwhelming approval of the City Planning Commission. The panel’s backing hasn’t silenced concern the initiative doesn’t do enough to create or preserve affordable housing units.

City Planning Commission Chair Dan Garodnick said ahead of the commission vote that the rezoning would create nearly 15,000 new homes, “the most amount of housing generated by a neighborhood-specific rezoning in at least 25 years and very likely the most since the creation of the modern Zoning Resolution in 1961.” The commission advanced the plan in a 11-to-1 vote Wednesday.

The OneLIC plan would create 4,300 affordable units, but “how affordable?” remains an unanswered question and the subject of continuing negoti

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