STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Staten Island residents gathered at 65 Uncas Ave. on Saturday alongside local officials to protest the potential redevelopment of a single-family property into multiple housing units — a project they say symbolizes what’s wrong with the city’s City of Yes zoning initiative.

South Shore Councilmember Frank Morano shared that as someone who grew up in the neighborhood, he wants to keep it a great place to live, expressing his dissatisfaction with the property’s planned redevelopment.

“Either neighborhoods mean something, either zoning means something, or it doesn’t,” said Morano, a Republican. “And what the City of Yes is, is the biggest giveaway to developers you’ve ever seen in the city’s history, with very little community input.”

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