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For the first time since 1961, the city moved to require a special permit before a hotel can rise in a manufacturing (M1) district, a bid to protect industrial land from hotels that 'are cash cows and can outbid virtually any other use.' City Planning's Jennifer Gravel and Jackie Sunwu defended a narrow carve-out only for shelter-style 'temporary housing assistance.' Then the room split: industrial-business-zone managers and Sunset Park residents backed the brake, while developers, the hotel association, an architect, and an omnibuild contractor warned of killed projects and lost jobs. Several
“approved by a vote of six in the affirmative, zero negative, and zero abstentions and referred to the full land use committee”
— Committee Clerk
“the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation is the applicant for an amendment to the city map to DMA a portion of St. Michael's Park”
— Francisco P. Moya
“an enlargement of a hotel that wishes to increase the floor area by 20% or more will have to go through a special permit process”
— Jackie Sunwu
“originated from the Ten Point Industrial Action Plan, which included a special portment for new hotels and industrial business zones”
— Jackie Sunwu
Approved in a single vote bundled with LUs 251 and 252 to eliminate parkland and acquire cemetery land at St. Michael Cemetery, with the Parks Department driving the land swap.
Cleared as a Parks-sponsored zoning map change that applies a zoning district designation to the de-mapped St. Michael property.
Advanced as the companion city map amendment that de-maps a portion of St. Michael's Park, filed by the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation alongside the zoning change.
Acted on a citywide text amendment creating a special permit for new hotels, motels, tourist cabins, and botels in M1 districts , the change that restricts as-of-right hotel development in light manufacturing zones.
Francisco P. Moya: Calls the roll for the vote to approve LUs 250, 251, 252, and 254
Public testimony: 1 in favor
Evan Weiss · Committee Clerk (unnamed in 16437) · Rafael Salamanca, Jr. · Darrell Holland · Maria Roca · Gene Kaufman · Paul Foschi
Every parcel, owner, and applicant in this meeting, cross-referenced against Zonable’s NYC ownership, enforcement & legislative graph — the record behind the record.
Owner portfolios, open OATH/ECB violations, 311 & DOB permits across every parcel discussed, developer track records, and an “ask this meeting” chat. For this meeting: 9 oath/ecb hearings across the 1 site discussed.
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