The City Council spent more than $1.5 million taxpayer dollars over the last month to blitz voters with mailers opposing Mayor Eric Adams’ ballot proposals that would limit the Council’s ability to control housing development, records show.

Currently, the Council must sign off on most major development projects in the city. If a Council member opposes a specific development within their district, the Council usually honors their position and rejects the project in question, and Council members often use the threat of rejection to extract concessions.

The ballot proposals, created by a charter revision commission Adams convened, include provisions that would take the Council out of the game entirely with certain developments that build permanently affordable housing or in neighborhoods th

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