Two new zoning districts created under plan can be applied citywide. The Planning Commission voted unanimously on September 5, 2007 to approve the 206-block rezoning plan for Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, sending it to the City Council.

Initiated by local residents, the plan crafts contextual zoning districts for low-density row house blocks, and higher density mixed-use districts for commercial corridors on Atlantic Avenue and Fulton Street. On a majority of the 206- block area, the rezoning would map lower density residential districts (R6A and R6B) that would place 50- foot and 70-foot maximum height limits, the first time height limits would be used on Bedford- Stuyvesant’s residential streets. Along with the rezoning, the plan proposes two new zoning districts and a new mixed-use district for Howard and Atlantic Avenues. It would also apply the City’s Inclusionary Housing provisions to 20 blocks along Atlantic, Fulton Street, Kane Place and Howard Avenue. (read more…)