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    Full Council Passes Mandatory Inclusionary Housing and Zoning for Quality and Affordability Proposals by an Overwhelmingly Majority Vote

    City Council  •  Affordable Housing  •  Citywide
    Image credit: NYCC/William Alatriste

    Image credit: NYCC/William Alatriste

    Despite disruption from Council public gallery, the modified plans were adopted without suspense.  On March 22, 2016, the City Council voted to approve Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Mandatory Inclusionary Housing and Zoning for Quality and Affordability proposals at its stated meeting. The full vote follows extensive modifications by the Council to the original plan. The approved text amendments are significantly different from the earlier versions voted on by the Community Board and City Planning. For CityLand’s past coverage and comprehensive explanation of modifications made to the proposals, click here.

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    Tags : affordable housing, Council Member David G. Greenfield, Council Member Donovan Richards, Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, Mandatory Inclusionary Housing, Zoning for Quality and Affordability
    Date: 03/23/2016
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    Zoning for Quality and Affordability Program Sent to Community Boards for Public Review

    City Planning Commission  •  Affordable Housing  •  Citywide
    Carl Weisbrod, Chairman of the City Planning Commission. Image credit: CityLand

    Carl Weisbrod, Chairman of the City Planning Commission. Image credit: CityLand

    The program would amend generation-old zoning regulations to encourage construction of efficient mixed-use buildings and affordable senior housing.  On September 21, 2015, the City Planning Commission issued a press release revealing two of the major programs to be implemented under Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Housing New York plan.  The programs, which are currently making their way through the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure process, are the Mandatory Inclusionary Housing Program and the Zoning for Quality and Affordability Program.  The latter proposes zoning text amendments that relax Inclusionary Housing building regulations and parking requirements to enable the construction of high-quality mixed-use buildings that utilize the full amount of buildable residential space and to encourage the construction of a diverse range of affordable senior housing and long-term care facilities.

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    Tags : affordable housing, City Planning Commission, Department of City Planning, Housing New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio, ULURP, Zoning for Quality and Affordability, zoning text amendment
    Date: 11/03/2015
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    Council Approved East Fordham Road Rezoning

    City Council  •  Rezoning  •  Belmont, Bronx
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    East Fordham Road Rezoning Project Area. Image Credit:Pictometry International Corp.

    Central Bronx area rezoned is adjacent to the Bronx Zoo, the Bronx Botanical Garden, and Fordham University. The Council approved the Bronx Planning office’s proposed zoning map amendments affecting a 12 block area in the Central Bronx. The new zoning established height limits, protects neighborhood character, and reinforces existing commercial character. A major goal of the rezoning is to stimulate revitalization of the area through private investment, the construction of affordable housing and to create an attractive gateway to important Bronx cultural institutions.

    On September 30, 2013, the Bronx Borough Office of the Department of City Planning (DCP) testified before the City Council’s Land Use Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises in support of the proposal to rezone an area along East Fordham Road, a major east-west thoroughfare passing through the central Bronx.  The rezoning area is generally bounded by East 191st Street to the north, East 187th Street to the south, Southern Boulevard to the east, and Bathgate Avenue to the west. (more…)

    Tags : Council Member Diana Reyna, East Fordham Road Rezoning
    Date: 10/24/2013
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    Heavy Lifting: The Regulation of Health Establishments Under the Zoning Resolution

    Commentary  •  Howard Goldman and Eugene Travers

    Zoning Therapy

    For 34 years the City has required a special permit for physical culture or health establishments. This requirement burdens owners and operators of health clubs, gyms, spas and studios, even where such uses would otherwise be permitted as-of-right. With the elimination of the now-unlawful adult physical culture establishments, the purpose and usefulness of the remaining regulations place an unnecessary burden on legitimate small businesses and should be modified or eliminated entirely.

    During the crime-ridden 1970s, regarded by some as the City’s nadir, the City Planning Commission enacted amendments to the Zoning Resolution distinguishing between “physical culture or health establishments” and “adult physical culture or health establishments.” As explained at the Commission’s public hearing, “zoning has proved to be the most effective tool in closing down houses of prostitution masquerading as massage parlors or physical culture establishments.” The Commission’s action, which followed a one year moratorium on physical culture or health establishments within the City, was approved by the Board of Estimate in early 1979.

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    Date: 01/23/2013
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    Rezonings in Bed-Stuy and Harlem Begin Review Process

    City Planning Commission  •  Certifications  •  Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn; West Harlem, Manhattan

    Credit: The Department of City Planning

    City Planning Commission certified 140-block Bed-Stuy North Rezoning and 90-block West Harlem Rezoning: included in the Brooklyn proposal is a text amendment that would also apply Citywide and to areas of the Bronx. At City Planning Commission’s review session on May 7, 2012, the Commission certified the Department of City Planning’s contextual rezoning proposal for the northern half of Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. The Bedford-Stuyvesant North Rezoning plan would impact a 140-block area generally bounded by Flushing Avenue to the north, Quincy Street to the south, Broadway to the east, and Classon and Franklin Avenues to the west. The proposal was requested by Brooklyn Community Board 3 and local elected officials after the City rezoned the southern half of the neighborhood in 2007. (read CityLand’s coverage here).

    Bedford-Stuyvesant is a residential neighborhood characterized by late 19th- and early 20th-century rowhouses, small and medium-sized apartment buildings, and several large, tower-in-the-park NYCHA (more…)

    Tags : Bedford-Stuyvesant, Department of City Planning, West Harlem, West harlem rezoning
    Date: 05/17/2012
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