Industry City executive Andrew Kimball is considering scrapping the  Sunet Park complex’s rezoning plan, a representative said.   
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 BY ROSE ADAMS 
 The developers behind Industry  
 scrapping  the  proposed  rezoning  
 Park complex after local  
 elected offi cials have issued  
 a number of “unreasonable”  
 demands, a representative for  
 the industrial campus said. 
 “A number of convergent  
 factors are causing Industry  
 City  to  question  whether  or  
 not it should pursue the rezoning,” 
 spokesman Lee Silberstein in  
 a statement, which was fi rst  
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 reported  by  Politico.  “First,  
 the price of conditions set by  
 elected offi cials in their attempt  
 to appease even the  
 most  unreasonable  constituents  
 is very high. That, combined  
 with  the  fact  that  companies  
 allowed under current  
 zoning continue to show interest  
 in the campus, raises the  
 question as to whether the application  
 should be pulled.” 
 The  developers’  July  27  
 announcement  comes  just  
 weeks  before  the  City  Planning  
 Commission  was  set  to  
 vote  on  the  rezoning  application  
  
 City are considering  
 of the sprawling Sunset  
   said  Industry  City  
 — which,  if  approved  
 by the city, would allow for a  
 12-year,  $1  billion  redevelopment  
 of  the  35-acre  facility  
 that  would  add  more  retail,  
 academic space, and offi ces.  
 The  proposal  has  fi ercely  
 divided Sunset Park’s largely  
 immigrant,  working-class  
 neighborhood  —  with  supporters  
 arguing  that  the  development  
 would  bring  desperately 
 needed  jobs,  and  
 critics charging that renovation  
 aims to lure large corporations, 
  which could  jack  up  
 rents and displace locals.  
  
  
 Among  the  rezoning’s  
 critics  is  local  Councilman  
 Carlos Menchaca,  who  holds  
 outsized  power  over  the  application’s  
 passage in the City  
 Council as  the district’s representative. 
   After  initially  
 saying he would support  the  
 rezoning  if  developers  bent  
 to  a  long  list  of  conditions,  
 he vowed on Tuesday to vote  
 down  the  application,  claiming  
 that  developers  have  
 failed to meet his demands.  
 “I made  it very clear  that  
 I  would  not  support  Industry  
 City’s  rezoning  unless  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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