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    LPC Releases Guidelines for Storefront Design in Historic Districts

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Storefront Design  •  Citywide

    Before and after images from the Guidelines demonstrate how a new storefront reflects the original storefront opening. Image credit: NYC LPC

    The document provides text and visual guidance for applicants. On May 6, 2019, the Landmarks Preservation Commission released Guidelines for Storefront Design in Historic Districts. The guidelines are designed to help business and property owners understand the rules and regulations for new storefronts created in historic districts. (more…)

    Tags : guidelines, Historic Districts, Landmarks Preservation Commission, storefronts
    Date: 05/17/2019
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    City Planning Creates Plan Responding to Bushwick’s Rapid Development

    Department Of City Planning  •  Community Development  •  Bushwick, Brooklyn

    NYC Department of City Planning

    The plan will address community concerns including affordable housing, open space, transportation safety, and economic development. On April 24, 2019, Department of City Planning Director Marisa Lago released the Bushwick Neighborhood Plan Update. The plan was created in response to the neighborhood’s rapid development, population growth, resident displacement, and lack of affordable housing from an increase in market-rate construction. (more…)

    Tags : Brooklyn, Bushwick, Bushwick Neighborhood Plan Update, Department of City Planning
    Date: 05/10/2019
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    City Council Passes New Legislation Halting Business Sign Violation Fees

    City Council  •  Signs  •  Citywide

    Council Member Rafael Espinal sponsored the bill to halt sign violation fees. Image Credit: Official NYC Council Photo by John McCarten

    Small business owners faced fines upwards of $15,000. In response to public outcry and community concerns on the hardships imposed on local businesses, on January 9, 2019, the New York City Council passed new legislation that would temporarily stop fines from violations issued to small businesses for failing to conform to their sign permits or those who did not have the proper permits at all. The Department usually gets 900 complaints a year, but that number doubled in 2018. By law, when the Department of Buildings is referred complaints through 311, they have to send an inspector out to the property. (more…)

    Tags : Accessory Signs, legislation
    Date: 03/04/2019
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    City Wins Polystyrene Case

    Court Decisions, Department of Sanitation  •  Polystyrene  •  Citywide

    Department of Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia at the CityLaw Breakfast on October 5, 2018. Image credit: CityLaw.

    Sanitation determined polystyrene foam products were unrecyclable. Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia’s decision that expanded polystyrene cannot be recycled has been upheld by the Appellate Division. The decision paves the way for the City to ban the use of expanded polystyrene single service articles. (more…)

    Tags : foam products, polystyrene, recycling, Sanitation
    Date: 11/07/2018
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    City Council Approves Inwood Neighborhood Rezoning Despite Residents Disapproval

    City Council, Economic Development Corporation  •  Rezoning  •  Inwood, Manhattan

    Intersection of Broadway and Dyckman Street in Inwood. Image credit: Daniel Case.

    On August 8, 2018, the City Council approved the Inwood Neighborhood Rezoning amidst resident concerns and disapproval. Mayor Bill de Blasio and Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez celebrated the rezoning approval. The rezoning was developed over the course of three years and affects 59 city blocks in the northern Manhattan neighborhood. The Economic Development Corporation, together with the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, the Department of Citywide Administrative Services, and the Department of Small Business Services, proposed the land use actions to implement a comprehensive rezoning plan in accordance with the goals of the Mayor’s Housing New York: Five-Borough, Ten-Year Plan and began to implement the Inwood NYC Action Plan. (more…)

    Tags : City Council, CPC, Inwood, Inwood rezoning, Rezoning
    Date: 08/22/2018
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