1. Who is going to build now that didn’t build until now?
2. An Assemblyman has no power to change the zoning. It is the purview of the City Council not the State legislature. So regardless whether Hikind or Caller is Assemblyman, he won’t have the ability to change zoning.
3. The current residents of the neighborhood will oppose a zoning change allowing greater density housing. It’s crowded enough as is and neighbors won’t stand for more crowding and more traffic. And they will oppose any efforts at zoning changes.
And that’s why it never happened until now. And won’t in the future.