A 58-minute Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises hearing on September 6, 2012 was the first item-rich docket of the post-recess calendar: eight Land Use items, LU 0672 through LU 0679, cleared on coupled rolls in three blocks. Chair Mark S. Weprin (D23) opened on schedule. Subcommittee counsel Christian Hilton sat to his right. The room was packed with applicants and CB delegates back from August.
Leroy G. Comrie, Jr. (D27 Queens) was the local member on four of the eight items, all Queens infill or commercial-overlay rezonings that had been in the CB pipeline since spring. Comrie walked each through the CB13 and CB12 recommendations, named the applicants, and pointed to the local Civic Association sign-offs. The pattern paralleled the Cambria Heights workflow Comrie had run on LU 0599-2012 four months earlier.
The Manhattan items (three of the eight) ran shorter. Daniel R. Garodnick (D4), Robert Jackson (D7), and Jessica Lappin (D5) each took one as the local member. Two were sidewalk-cafe consents (standard 11pm closings, retractable awnings, FDNY clearance). One was a smaller rezoning, a single-block FAR adjustment. CB sign-offs across all three. Speaker Christine Quinn's office had pre-cleared the consent block.
The Brooklyn item, LU 0677, drew the only opposition of the hearing. A neighborhood resident from CB6 testified against the applicant's parking-variance language, citing four prior CB6 hearings on the same parcel. Albert Vann (D36), the local member, agreed on the record to add a parking-impact condition before the Land Use Committee took it up. The applicant attorney accepted on the record.
Counsel called the roll in three blocks. Vincent Ignizio, Diana Reyna, Albert Vann, Joel Rivera, Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., Daniel R. Garodnick, Robert Jackson, and Jessica Lappin were named in the affirmative across the blocks. Final tally 9 affirmative, 0 negative, 0 abstentions on each. Weprin referred all eight to the full Land Use Committee.
What actually happened next: all eight items cleared the Land Use Committee September 13 and full Council September 20. The Brooklyn LU 0677 parking condition was attached at the Land Use Committee stage and carried to final passage. The Queens infill items delivered between 2014 and 2017.