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    City Planning Commission Approves Application to Increase Building Height in Tribeca

    Special Permit  •  Tribeca, Manhattan

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    Applicants will continue to preserve and restore the building in exchange for the approval to increase the building’s height. On August 28, 2019, the City Planning Commission voted to approve an application for a special permit for 121 Chambers Street in Tribeca South Historic District, Manhattan. The special permit would allow for the addition of two stories to the existing five-story building.

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    Tags : 121 Chambers Street, City Planning Commission, Special Tribeca Mixed Use District, Tribeca South Historic District
    Date:08/29/2019
    Category : City Planning Commission
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    North Tribeca contextual rezoning approved

    Rezoning/Text Amendment  •  Tribeca, Manhattan

    Contextual rezoning establishes new height and bulk regulations in Special Tribeca Mixed Use District’s northern portion. On October 13, 2010, the City Council approved the Department of City Planning’s North Tribeca Rezoning proposal. The plan impacted a 25-block area generally bounded by Canal Street to the north, Walker and Hubert Streets to the south, Broadway to the east, and West Street to the west.

    Planning’s proposal replaced the area’s M1-5 zoning with a C6- 2A contextual mixed-use district to better match the neighborhood’s increasingly residential and commercial character. Newly created subareas within the Special Tribeca Mixed Use District now provide tailored height and bulk regulations to ensure that future development conforms to existing scale. The City’s Inclusionary Housing Program will also now apply to the centrally located A6 subarea that includes the Holland Tunnel rotary. (read more…)

    Tags : North Tribeca, North Tribeca Rezoning, Rezoning, Special Tribeca Mixed Use District
    Date:11/06/2010
    Category : City Council
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    Rezoning of 25 blocks in North Tribeca moves forward

    Rezoning/Text Amendment  •  Tribeca, Manhattan

    Proposal would establish new height and bulk regulations in northern portion of Special Tribeca Mixed Use District. On September 15, 2010, the City Planning Commission approved the Department of City Planning’s North Tribeca Rezoning proposal. The 25-block rezoning area is generally bounded by Canal Street to the north, Walker and Hubert Streets to the south, Broadway to the east, and West Street to the west. The plan would impact the Special Tribeca Mixed Use District’s A4, B1, and B2 subareas. It would replace the area’s existing M1-5 manufacturing zoning with a C6-2A commercial mixed-use district and create new special district subareas that better reflect northern Tribeca’s increasingly residential and commercial character.

    North Tribeca was primarily a manufacturing district characterized by industrial and warehouse buildings, with limited residential uses. As the industrial base declined in the 1960s and 70s, vacant buildings attracted new residential and commercial tenants. The City in 1976 created the Special Tribeca Mixed Use District to establish zoning rules that permitted controlled residential uses to coexist with light manufacturing uses. The special district applied flexible residential use regulations to the southern portion of Tribeca, but prohibited new residential development in North Tribeca in order to preserve its industrial character. (read more…)

    Tags : Inclusionary Housing Program, Manhattan Community Board 1, Scott Stringer, Special Tribeca Mixed Use District
    Date:10/15/2010
    Category : City Planning Commission
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