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    North Brooklyn rezoned

    Rezoning/Text Amendment  •  Greenpoint/Williamsburg, Brooklyn
    Greenpoint-Williamsburg Contextual Rezoning, Proposed Zoning used with permission of the New York City Department of City Planning. All rights reserved.

    Additional 175 blocks of Greenpoint and Williamsburg rezoned. The City Council approved a 175-block rezoning plan for Brooklyn’s Greenpoint and Williamsburg neighborhoods. The newly rezoned area lies east of the City’s large 2005 rezoning initiative. 2 CityLand 67 (June 15, 2005). Unlike the 2005 plan, which concerned redevelopment of the manufacturing-zoned blocks along North Brooklyn’s former industrial waterfront, this new plan seeks to prevent further out-of-character construction along Greenpoint and Williamsburg’s residentially-developed inland blocks.

    Originally developed in the 19th and 20th centuries as worker housing, the area has recently seen construction of 200-foot, as-of-right apartment towers along blocks characterized by small, wood-framed, two- and three-story buildings. The Department of City Planning proposed some increased residential density and commercial development, but set height and density limits along streets characterized by two- to four-story residential buildings.

    The approved plan replaces the area’s predominantly R6 zoning, which covered 93 percent of the rezoning area. The new contextual zoning districts (R6A, R6B, and R7A) eliminate as-of-right development of large towers without height limits. Planning assigned the R7A zoning district, which allows a slight increase in density, to 44 blocks along the area’s major commercial corridors of Grand Street, McGuinness Boulevard, and Manhattan, Metropolitan, Union, and Bushwick Avenues. The City’s Inclusionary Housing program will now apply to these blocks, allowing developers to increase a project’s floor area in exchange for an agreement to build affordable housing. (read more…)

    Tags : Greenpoint Rezoning, Greenpoint/Williamsburg Rezoning, Inclusionary Housing Program, Williamsburg Rezoning
    Date:08/15/2009
    Category : City Council
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    Williamsburg residential rowhouse district designated

    Designation  •  Williamsburg, Brooklyn
    Fillmore Place Historic District. Image: LPC.

    Built as housing for working-class waterfront laborers, neighborhood remains remarkably intact. Landmarks designated the Fillmore Place Historic District on May 12, 2009. The district, primarily located on Fillmore Place between Driggs Avenue and Roebling Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was privately developed during a period of rapid growth in Williamsburg during the 1850s. Although different developers likely had hands in Fillmore Place, the 29 rowhouses maintain cohesiveness in scale and design. The houses were built primarily for workers, largely German immigrants, employed along the industrializing East River waterfront.

    At the March 24th hearing, a representative for Council Member Diana Reyna stated that she “enthusiastically” supported designation, and that the area was “surrounded by over-development and new construction.” Preservationists testifying that the district merited protection included Melissa Baldock of the Municipal Art Society, who stated that the 2005 Greenpoint- Williamsburg Rezoning failed to identify historic resources, and, as a result, there was “still work to be done” in the area. Historic Districts Council Executive Director Simeon Bankoff stated that Fillmore Place was important partially because it represented how “an average Brooklynite” would have lived. (read more…)

    Tags : Fillmore Place Historic District, Greenpoint/Williamsburg Rezoning, Municipal Art Society
    Date:06/15/2009
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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