Plan covers East River waterfront from the Battery to the Lower East Side. The Planning Commission approved two linked applications that will implement an East River Waterfront Concept Plan that was developed in 2005 though a planning effort that included 70 public meetings and intensive input from the community. The plan … <Read More>
Manhattanville business filed a private rezoning opposing Columbia University’s plan to take its lots by eminent domain. Four rezoning applications filed by Tuck-It-Away Storage, a Manhattanville ministorage company, started the public review process after the Planning Commission certified the applications as complete on July 23, 2007, and sent each to Community Board 9 for comment.
The plan seeks to rezone five lots scattered throughout Manhattanville that currently contain ministorage facilities run by Tuck-It- Away Storage. … <Read More>
The Council voted to re-designate after court voided first designation. The City Council voted on July 25, 2007 to amend the Douglaston Hill Historic District to include a home at 41-45 240th Street that has been the subject of a protracted designation dispute. 4 CityLand 3 (Apr. 15, 2007). Landmarks originally designated the home as part of the Douglaston Hill Historic District in December 2004. The owners, Kevin and Diana Mosley, successfully challenged the home’s … <Read More>
Residents sought to end the replacement of single-family homes with large out-of-character apartment buildings. On July 25, 2007, the City Council unanimously approved the rezoning of 159 blocks of the Dyker Heights and Fort Hamilton neighborhoods of Brooklyn. Located at the … <Read More>
Inclusionary Housing program extended to Atlantic Ave. and Fulton Street. On July 25, 2007, the City Council approved the 99-block rezoning plan for the Fort Greene and Clinton Hill neighborhoods in Brooklyn, including a proposal to apply the City’s inclusionary housing provisions to blocks along Atlantic Avenue and Fulton Street.
Located adjacent to downtown Brooklyn, the residential neighborhoods of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill have faced increasing development pressure during the past five years as … <Read More>
Proposal would permit Council by a majority vote to review variances and special permits. The City Council’s Land Use Committee heard public testimony on July 24, 2007 on Local Law Intro. 261 to amend the City Charter’s review procedures on BSA decisions. The amendment, sponsored by Council Member Tony Avella, would give the Council the power to review BSA variances and special permit decisions if a majority of the full Council votes to take review. … <Read More>