A public hearing is to be held on Aug. 27 on changing the property's zoning from light industrial to a planned neighborhood development zone.

That plan includes more than 100 more single-family homes in two other neighborhood developments that would be valued at nearly $20 million.

It makes donations for neighborhood development, pays taxes, shares its schools, and has opened the area's first day-care center.

Mr. Brown, 59, has said city government should be reduced and taxes lowered, with money reallocated to neighborhood development.

The neighborhood development began with adjacent lots along Irarrázaval Avenue.

On other matters, he said he would put a college campus in Harlem as well as an open-air market to encourage neighborhood development.

A new neighborhood development in the area is called "Midtown Crossing at Turner Park."

The first neighborhood development, Summerfield, went up in 1995.

The Mayor should be reprimanded on another front as well: for advocating a foolish pattern of public investment and neighborhood development.

Mayor Bloomberg has recognized the financial folly of such large-scale building in an area that needs careful neighborhood development.