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    Major Staten Island Project OK’d by City Planning Despite Significant Opposition; City Council Up Next

    ULURP  •  Bay Street Corridor, Staten Island

    Illustrative rendering of the envisioned street view. Image Credit: DCP.

    The proposed zoning actions were largely disapproved by the Community Board, the Borough President, and even Staten Island’s appointee to the City Planning Commission. The Department of City Planning, along with the Department of Housing Preservation and Development and the Department of Citywide Administrative Services filed an application requesting several ULURP actions to help implement the goals of the Bay Street Corridor Neighborhood Plan. The Neighborhood Plan is a comprehensive plan to foster a new mixed-use residential and commercial corridor connecting the St. George, Stapleton and Tompkinsville North Shore neighborhoods of Staten Island. The plan was developed with extensive input from community stakeholders, local advisory committees, elected officials and others, working with the Department of City Planning and other City agencies including the Parks Department, the Economic Development Corporation, the Department of Environmental Protection, and Department of Transportation, for over three years. (read more…)

    Tags : Bay Street Corridor Neighborhood Plan, Bay Street Corridor Rezoning, comprehensive plan, Department of Citywide Administrative Services, HPD, Special Bay Street Corridor District, staten island rezoning, UDAAP, ULURP
    Date:05/14/2019
    Category : City Planning Commission
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    Mayor Urges Emissions Reductions for Existing Buildings

    Environmental Protection  •  Citywide

    Chart of City Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Image Source: One City, Built to Last, Technical Working Group Report

    Mayor Bill de Blasio calls for emissions reductions by mandating improvements to existing buildings. On June 2, 2017, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed Executive Order No. 26, Climate Action Executive Order, to commit New York City to the principles and goals of the Paris Agreement. On September 14, 2017, the Office of the Mayor announced new mandates on building upgrades to implement the executive order. According to the Mayor’s press release, these mandates will be enacted by legislation sponsored by Council Member Costa Constantinides, chair of the Council’s Environmental Protection Committee.

    Buildings, specifically fossil fuels used for heat and hot water, are the City’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. The Mayor’s press release included statistics of buildings emissions ranging from 42% to 80% of total emissions in New York. The current mandates will facilitate energy improvements to existing buildings by 2030. These mandates are the “most dramatic reductions into the coming decade,” and this is the “most ambitious program of its kind in the nation.” (read more…)

    Tags : Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Council Member Costa Constantinides, Department of Citywide Administrative Services, Department of Environmental Protection, Environmental Protection Agency, greenhouse gas emissions, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Office of the Mayor
    Date:09/27/2017
    Category : Office of the Mayor
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    CPC Approves 45-Year-Old Senior Center’s New Lease

    ULURP  •  Crown Heights, Brooklyn

    Senior Center at 196 Albany Avenue, across the street from a 14-story NYCHA building. Image credit: GoogleMaps

    City Planning approved new 20-year lease for a Crown Heights senior center. On September 6, 2017, the City Planning Commission approved an application from the Department for the Aging and the Department of Citywide Administrative Services to continue the use of a senior center at 196 Albany Avenue in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood. The application sought a new 20-year lease for the center which has been operating at the site since 1972. (read more…)

    Tags : Albany Avenue, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Crown Heights, Department For The Aging, Department of Citywide Administrative Services
    Date:09/19/2017
    Category : City Planning Commission
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    City Planning Approves Parks’ Acquisition of Community Garden with Community Support

    ULURP  •  Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn

    Image credit: GoogleMaps

    The City Planning Commission approved the acquisition of 6,000-square-foot community garden and passive recreation lot to place under jurisdiction of the Parks Department. On July 16, 2017, the City Planning Commission issued a favorable report on a joint application filed by the Department of Parks and Recreation and the Department of Citywide Administrative Services to acquire private property at 237 Maple Street in the Prospect-Lefferts Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn. The acquired property would be used for passive recreation and a community garden. (read more…)

    Tags : Department of Citywide Administrative Services, Department of Parks and Recreation, GreenThumb Program, Maple Street, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens
    Date:08/03/2017
    Category : City Planning Commission
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    City’s Failure to Preserve Deed Restrictions on the Rivington House Explored [City Council Passes Tougher Oversight]

    Government Operations and Oversight  •  Lower East Side, Manhattan
    The Rivington House. Image credit: edenpictures/Flickr

    The Rivington House. Image credit: edenpictures/Flickr

    UPDATE: On December 6, 2016, the New York City Council voted 42-0 to approve Introduction 1182-2016 which requires the Department for Citywide Administrative Services to conduct an extensive review of a request to remove a deed restriction on a property managed by DCAS, including a public hearing, to determine whether the request removal furthers the best interests of the City.

    The legislation is a response the controversial sale of the Rivington House to a luxury condo developer after DCAS removed deed restrictions that prevented such a development. “The City Council can assure that this will never happen again to any other community,” said the bill’s sponsor Manhattan Council Member Margaret Chin.

    The bill will now go to the Mayor for his signature. (read more…)

    Tags : Council Member Ben Kallos, Council Member David G. Greenfield, Council Member Margaret Chin, Council Member Rory Lancman, Council Member Vincent Gentile, Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, Department of Citywide Administrative Services, Department of Investigation, East Village/Lower East Side, First Deputy Mayor Anthony Shorris, Mayor's Office of Contract Services, New York City Law Department, Rivington House, Zachary Carter
    Date:12/07/2016
    Category : City Council
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    Comptroller Report Finds City Accountable for Failure to Stop the Sale of the Rivington House

    Report  •  Lower East Side, Manhattan
    NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer. Image credit: Office of the New York City Comptroller

    NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer. Image credit: Office of the New York City Comptroller

    In contrast to the DOI Report, the Comptroller’s Report places personal accountability on City Officials rather than the indoctrinated procedure for deed-modifications. On August 1, 2016, New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer issued a Report on the removal of deed restrictions from Rivington House. The Report is the product of a five-month-long investigation conducted by the Comptroller’s Office into the City’s actions in facilitating the sale of the Rivington House—a non-profit nursing home located in Manhattan’s Lower East Side—to luxury condominium developers for a $72 million profit in February 2016.

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    Tags : City Comptroller Scott Stringer, City Hall, Department of Citywide Administrative Services, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Mayor's Office of Contract Services, Rivington House
    Date:08/08/2016
    Category : Comptroller's Office
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