Blasio admin. keeps builders in limbo

Mayor de Blasio is refusing to let the city’s land-use review process restart — weeks after the construction industry roared back to life — leaving in limbo for-profit development, affordable-housing projects and even neighborhood rezonings backed by his administration.

“We’re opening up the city. We’re going to go to Phase Three. It’s time for us to get to work,” Councilman Rafael Salamanca (D-Bronx) told The Post. The ongoing holdup “makes no sense,” he said.

A City Hall spokesman said the multistep public-review process, formally called Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, or ULURP, “remains

on pause due to the COVID crisis” and pledged more information about a restart in the late summer. ULURP was suspended in March.

Vicki Been, de Blasio’s deputy mayor for housing and economic development, told an industry roundtable last week that she was still working out technological issues to convert ULURP’s in-person meetings to a remote system.

“I certainly expect that in the early fall we will be back in business,” Been said.

Joe Apicella, whose development firm, MacQuesten Companies is building 107 apartments for low-income residents in Brooklyn’s Ocean Hill, was gobsmacked by the delay.

“We understand COVID but you know it’s just a shame because these are people who need a roof over their head,” he told The Post.

“I can’t rationalize in this day and age with technology why we can’t have meetings.”