City
Phone Calls Flood in as Tenants Demand Rent Freeze
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The Ithaca Tennants Union organized a phone-in campaign to push the Common Council to enact a rent freeze, while tenants struggle financially due to the pandemic.
Ithaca Common Council
Common Council Calls on N.Y. State to Help Protect Renters in First Zoom Meeting
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The Ithaca Common Council had its first virtual meeting on April 1, discussing the concerns of Ithaca’s landlords and tenants about the payment of rent during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Opinion
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Pushing Forward the City’s Green New Deal
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To the Editor:
There is concern among a number of us who support the goals of the city’s Green New Deal but watch the city advance development that is inconsistent with the necessity to reduce — not increase — local greenhouse gas emissions. The latter concern is exacerbated by the comments of several alder persons who voted for the GND but now question even the extraordinarily minor budget commitment to make their pronouncement substantive. Months ago in the wake of the contention over Cornell’s North Campus Residential Expansion, the Planning and Economic Development Board wrote the Common Council asking for training to competently analyze projects for their greenhouse gas and climate change implications — a request which has apparently been ignored. Recently, the director of planning and economic development admitted that she and her current staff could not produce a substantive GND. Moreover, we all know that it has taken existing staff and local consultants three years and running to create a Green Building Policy with codification and implementation still months off.
Ithaca Common Council
Police, Fire Departments Request Funding for More Officers at City Budget Hearing
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At the meeting, Tyler, along with officials from the Fire Department and Public Information and Technology Office, had the chance to discuss the city’s nearly $76 million budget’s effect on their departments.
the nines
Proposal on The Nines May Be Sent Back to Landmarks Preservation Commission
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The Ithaca Planning and Economic Development Committee’s vote came after a lengthy public hearing, where a parade of local supporters and dissenters weighed in on a Collegetown staple.
Indigenous People's Day
City Passes Resolution to Recognize Indigenous Peoples’ Day
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The City of Ithaca sought to change this in order to recognize that the indigenous people were on the land known as the Americas prior to Columbus’s arrival.
City
Ithaca Common Council Accepts Grant to Fund Additional Firefighters
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“We don’t have the adequate staffing that is appropriate to serve different stations,” said alderperson Cynthia Brock (D-1st Ward). Alderperson Donna Fleming (D-3rd Ward) added that there is “plenty of need” for these four additional people.
City
Mayor Myrick ’09 Proposes Lower Property Tax
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“New growth means the value of land in the city increased by 10 percent last year,” he said. “Some of that is in assessment increases on existing property but most is in the growth from new apartments in Collegetown and Downtown.”
Ithaca Common Council
Ithaca Planning Committee Promotes Low-Income Housing
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Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 said the high cost of housing is “the largest problem in Ithaca” in a Facebook post on Wednesday.