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    City Planning Holds Public Hearing for Borough-Based Jails Project

    Borough based jails  •  Citywide

    The City Planning Commission at the borough-based jails public hearing on July 10, 2019. Image Credit: CPC

    City reduced projected number of beds to 4,600 but did not amend application at time of hearing. On July 10, 2019, the City Planning Commission held a public hearing for the City’s application for four borough-based jails as a part of the City’s plan to shut down Rikers Island. The application proposes four new jails at 124-125 White Street in Manhattan, 745 East 141st Street in the Bronx, 126-02 82nd Avenue in Queens, and at 275 Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. The new jails will allow the City to shut down operations on Rikers Island and work toward the City’s goal of reducing the City’s jail population. For CityLand’s prior coverage of the proposed project, click here. (read more…)

    Tags : borough based jails, City Planning Commission, Rikers Island
    Date:08/05/2019
    Category : City Planning Commission
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    City Council Approves City Planning’s Mechanical Voids Text Amendment

    Zoning Resolution  •  Citywide

    Building on left demonstrates current issue with excessive mechanical voids. Image Credit: NYC CPC

    Developers were using excessive mechanical spaces to increase the height of their buildings. On May 29, 2019, the City Council voted to adopt the Residential Tower Mechanical Voids Text Amendment with modifications. The Department of City Planning proposed the amendment in response to developers incorporating excessively tall mechanical floors – “mechanical voids” – in residential towers to increase their allowable height, as mechanical floors did not count toward the zoning floor area in the Zoning Resolution. This would result in towers with several floors of mostly empty space that would allow developers to build higher, increasing the values of the apartments on higher floors. In late 2018, Mayor Bill de Blasio asked the Department of City Planning (DCP) to investigate the mechanical voids problem and find a solution.

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    Tags : City Council, City Planning Commission, Department of City Planning, mechanical voids
    Date:07/09/2019
    Category : City Council
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    City Planning Certifies City Applications to Build Borough-Based Jails

    Borough based jails  •  Citywide

    Map of proposed project site for the Bronx jail at 745 East 141st Street. Image Credit: NYC CPC

    The four jails are set to replace Rikers island by 2027. On March 25, 2019, the City Planning Commission certified the City’s application for four borough-based jails as a part of the City’s plan to shut down Rikers Island. The four jails – in Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn – will have a total of 5,748 beds and a capacity of 5,000 inmates. The additional 748 beds will be used to account for taking occupied cells out of service for repairs, separating inmates based on gender or sentenced versus non-sentenced or other space needs. (read more…)

    Tags : borough based jails, City Planning Commission, Rikers Island
    Date:04/24/2019
    Category : City Planning Commission
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    City Planning Releases Digital Mapping Tool for Applicants

    Interactive Tools  •  Citywide

    Front page of Applicant Maps website. Image Credit: NYC DCP

    The new free self-service map tool increases accessibility for the public and smaller owners and developers. On Thursday, April 11, 2019, the Department of City Planning Director Marisa Lago announced the release of a free, easy to use digital mapping tool that allows the public, smaller property owners and developers to build quality land use maps for their applications to the City Planning Commission for zoning changes. Prior to the release of this tool, creating area maps was a costly venture, and required specialized Geographic Information System software, and the ability to use it. (read more…)

    Tags : City Planning Commission, Department of City Planning, digital map, GIS, Interactive Tools, Land Use, land use applications, map creation
    Date:04/22/2019
    Category : Department Of City Planning
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    Private Development of City-Owned, Blighted Property to Bring 54 Units of Affordable Housing

    ULURP  •  Melrose, Bronx

    Rendering of proposed new nine-story building at the corner of Brook Avenue and East 156th Street in the Bronx. Image Credit: CPC/Dattner Architects.

    The development seeks to activate the streetscape in the area by removing the existing dangerous condition posed by a long-abandoned railroad trench. On March 27, 2019, the City Planning Commission held a public hearing on an application by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development and developer Phipps Houses that will bring 54 units of affordable housing to the Melrose neighborhood of the Bronx. The application calls for the disposition of City-owned property, a rezoning, the grant of a special permit and designation of the proposed development site as Mandatory Inclusionary Housing, Option 1. The development site is located at the corner of East 156th Street and Brook Avenue, across from Via Verde, a relatively recent environmentally-conscious residential complex, also built by Phipps Houses. (read more…)

    Tags : 156 Brook, affordable housing, City Planning Commission, Disposition of City-owned property, Enterprise Green Community Standards, Housing for the formerly homeless, HPD, HPD ELLA Program, MIH, Phipps Houses, Phipps Neighborhoods, ULURP
    Date:04/18/2019
    Category : City Planning Commission
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    HPD and Private Developers Partner to Bring 235-Unit Affordable Building to Bedford-Stuyvesant

    ULURP  •  Bedford/Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

    Rendering of proposed 14-story development at 1921 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn. Image Credit: CPC.

    The project will be financed under an HPD program that requires low and extremely low income affordability and set-asides for the formerly homeless. On March 27, 2019, the City Planning Commission voted to approve an application that will bring a 14-story affordable mixed-use development with 235 residential units to 1921 Atlantic Avenue in the Bedford/Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. The application was brought by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development in conjunction with DTF Atlantic, a joint venture between two developers, Dabar Development Partners and Thorobird Companies. City Planning held a public hearing on the application on February 27, 2019. (read more…)

    Tags : 1921 Atlantic Avenue, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, City Planning Commission, Enterprise Green Community Standards, HPD, HPD ELLA Program, Rezoning, Saratoga Square Urban Renewal Plan, Special Mixed use District, UDAAP, Urban Pathways
    Date:04/02/2019
    Category : City Planning Commission
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