The one where the Land Use Committee comes back IN PERSON and clears a Pentecostal church, two NAACP-era landmarks and a
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Back in person for the first time, Chair Rafael Salamanca's committee moved a borough-spanning slate as one coupled package. In Queens, a rezoning would build two new buildings , including a nine-story , while the Battalion Pentecostal Assembly Church 'would remain', and the nursing-home site was pulled from one application. Two Manhattan landmark designations cleared: a Gothic church and a twelve-story 1912 loft building that 'houses the nation's office the NAACP from nineteen fourteen.' Bronx BP Gibson stepped down from the dais to back her own application , a 45-unit building, 29 vacant, re
“facilitate a wider variety of local retail uses within the newly constructed as-of-right development”
— Rafael Salamanca, Jr.
“the designation of Holy Root Epicostal Church, Inglesia Santa Cruz, located in Manhattan at block 2176, Lot 30”
— Rafael Salamanca, Jr.
“rental to families with annual household incomes of up to a hundred and twenty thousand a hundred and twenty percent of AMI with rent set at sixty percent of the AMI”
— Rafael Salamanca, Jr.
“To approve pre-considers LU's 133 Beach 116th Street, rezoning, number C two one zero, one four eight ZMQ”
— Rafael Salamanca, Jr.
The decisions
6TBK1002 MBD-UDAAP and Article XI
Block 2176
Took up the Landmarks Preservation Commission's referral to designate Holyrood Episcopal Church / Iglesia Santa Cruz (Manhattan, Block 2176 Lot 30) as a historic landmark. No vote or disposition was recorded for the application at this meeting.
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Beach 67th Street Rezoning
with 1 related matter · LU 0825-2021
- Committee modifies the application to REMOVE the nursing home site (an existing nursing home across the street, now controlled by the applicant) from the rezoning, so as to avoid making it vulnerable to redevelopment as projected in the EAS.
133 Beach 116th Street Rezoning
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Vanessa L. Gibson: Council Member Gibson speaks to explain her vote, describing her own land use application 2021-15030 at 1105 Tinton Avenue (ASR 'Tintin') in the Morrisania community of her Bronx district — a city-owned 45-unit building, 29 vacant, in serious disrepair, to be acquired and rehabilitated by affordable-housing developer MBD (Mid-Bronx Desperados).
Vanessa L. Gibson: Gibson states she is supportive of the application, asks all colleagues to vote aye, and confirms she will be voting aye on today's agenda.
- First in-person Committee on Land Use meeting since March 2020, following the Governor's lifting of the COVID state of emergency and restoration of normal NYS open-meeting-law operations. — Rafael Salamanca, Jr.
- Chair credits the zoning and landmarks subcommittee chairs (Chair Moya = zoning, Chair Riley/'Viley' = landmarks) for their work before the committee votes on applications referred out from both subcommittees. — Rafael Salamanca, Jr.
- No questions/remarks; Chair calls for a vote in accordance with the subcommittee recommendations; notes a vote of aye on all couples adoption of all items. — Rafael Salamanca, Jr.
- Committee Clerk (Martin) announces the coupled roll-call result: 11 in the affirmative, 0 negative, 0 abstentions — all items adopted as indicated on the Land Use calendar. (Canonical tally on file in Legistar; captured here as the spoken announcement color.) — Martin
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