Environmental study and site choice for Brooklyn garage upheld. The City filed a condemnation action in October 2003 for three lots comprising a 2.46-acre site bounded by Park, Nostrand and Flushing Avenues and Warsoff Place in Clinton Hill, to be used for the eventual construction of a new Sanitation truck storage garage to serve Brooklyn Community District 3.

The site had been subject to a June 2000 application by Sanitation and the Department of Citywide Administrative Services for site selection and acquisition approval for a 70- space Sanitation truck garage, a permitted use in the site’s M1-2 zoning. After receiving the approval of both Community Board 3 and the Borough President, the Planning Commission approved the site selection and acquisition on December 5, 2001. (read more…)