Committee on Land Use · Monday, July 11, 2022

The one where the Rockaway homeownership push survives only after a coastal downzoning and a trauma-center promise

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The Land Use Committee took up the Resilient Edgemere Community Initiative (LU 67-71) , over a thousand units, 35% affordable homeownership, on a Rockaway peninsula. Selvena Brooks-Powers, whose district it is, gave a tense qualified yes: she'd fought to downzone the Jamaica Bay coastline to cut flood damage, and tied her support to infrastructure, a 696-seat public school, a community advisory board, and the long-felt trauma-care gap since Peninsula Hospital closed. The package, paired with a Brooklyn rezoning and a school site, passed 9-0. Her closing note: it doesn't fix everything, but hom

From the room

set to rates affordable to families earning forty percent of the AMI. All buildings would be exempt from rural property taxation for 40 years

“rezone an existing M1-1 district to an R6B district to facilitate the development of a four-story residential building”
— Rafael Salamanca, Jr.

“pursuant to Article sixteen of the general municipal law and Article 11 of the private housing finance law”
— Rafael Salamanca, Jr.

“We've been joined by Councilmembers Moya, uh Brooke Powers, Krishnan, Sanchez, Rivera, Chair Riley, Kagan”
— Rafael Salamanca, Jr.

The decisions

01LU 0045-2022G 220012 XAMArt. XI Tax ExemptionApproved

34 Morningside Avenue Cluster

Mandatory inclusionary housing

Committee vote

Ari KaganCarlina RiveraFrancisco P. MoyaJoseph C. BorelliKevin C. Riley Pierina Ana SanchezRafael Salamanca, Jr.Selvena N. Brooks-Powers Shekar Krishnan

Legislation →ULURP case →

02LU 0067-2022C 220232 ZMQZoning MapApproved

Resilient Edgemere Community Initiative

with 4 related matters · LU 0068-2022 · LU 0069-2022 · LU 0070-2022 · LU 0071-2022

Committee vote

Ari KaganCarlina RiveraFrancisco P. MoyaJoseph C. BorelliKevin C. Riley Pierina Ana SanchezRafael Salamanca, Jr.Selvena N. Brooks-Powers Shekar KrishnanAri KaganCarlina RiveraFrancisco P. MoyaJoseph C. BorelliKevin C. Riley Pierina Ana SanchezRafael Salamanca, Jr.Selvena N. Brooks-Powers Shekar KrishnanAri KaganCarlina RiveraFrancisco P. MoyaJoseph C. BorelliKevin C. Riley Pierina Ana SanchezRafael Salamanca, Jr.Selvena N. Brooks-Powers Shekar KrishnanAri KaganCarlina RiveraFrancisco P. MoyaJoseph C. BorelliKevin C. Riley Pierina Ana SanchezRafael Salamanca, Jr.Selvena N. Brooks-Powers Shekar KrishnanAri KaganCarlina RiveraFrancisco P. MoyaJoseph C. BorelliKevin C. Riley Pierina Ana SanchezRafael Salamanca, Jr.Selvena N. Brooks-Powers Shekar Krishnan

Legislation →ULURP case →

03LU 0078-2022C 200317 ZMKZoning MapApproved

41 SUMMIT STREET

Took up the rezoning of 41 Summit Street in Council Member Hanif's Brooklyn district, changing the existing M1-1 manufacturing district to R6B to allow a four-story residential building to be built.

The deal

Site

41 SUMMIT STREET

Stories

4 fl

District

District 39

Committee vote

Ari KaganCarlina RiveraFrancisco P. MoyaJoseph C. BorelliKevin C. Riley Pierina Ana SanchezRafael Salamanca, Jr.Selvena N. Brooks-Powers Shekar Krishnan

Properties41 SUMMIT STREET

Legislation →ULURP case →

04LU 0085-2022G 220016 SCXApproved

Approximately 696-Seat Primary School Facility

Site selection moved forward for a new 696-seat public school in Council Member Dinowitz's Bronx district.

Committee vote

Ari KaganCarlina RiveraFrancisco P. MoyaJoseph C. BorelliKevin C. Riley Pierina Ana SanchezRafael Salamanca, Jr.Selvena N. Brooks-Powers Shekar Krishnan

Legislation →ULURP case →

Also in the record

Records not linked to a specific agenda item

Mandatory inclusionary housing

Procedure

Remote council members use Zoom raise-hand to ask questions; physically present members indicate verbally; chair recognizes speakers — Arthur Ha
William Martin, Committee Clerk, conducts roll call vote for Committee on Land Use; all items coupled — William Martin
Chair thanks members of the public, colleagues, Land Use staff, council staff, and sergeant at arms; adjourns the meeting — Rafael Salamanca, Jr.

The people

On the dais · 4

Darlene Mealy Erik D. Bottcher Farah N. Louis Kamillah Hanks

Public testimony: 2 in favor

Practitioners & applicants

William Martin

The intelligence

Every parcel, owner, and applicant in this meeting, cross-referenced against Zonable’s NYC ownership, enforcement & legislative graph — the record behind the record.

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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: 36 oath/ecb hearings across the 1 site discussed.

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Committee on Land Use · Monday, July 11, 2022

The one where the Rockaway homeownership push survives only after a coastal downzoning and a trauma-center promise

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From the room

set to rates affordable to families earning forty percent of the AMI. All buildings would be exempt from rural property taxation for 40 years

“rezone an existing M1-1 district to an R6B district to facilitate the development of a four-story residential building”
— Rafael Salamanca, Jr.

“pursuant to Article sixteen of the general municipal law and Article 11 of the private housing finance law”
— Rafael Salamanca, Jr.

“We've been joined by Councilmembers Moya, uh Brooke Powers, Krishnan, Sanchez, Rivera, Chair Riley, Kagan”
— Rafael Salamanca, Jr.

The decisions

01LU 0045-2022G 220012 XAMArt. XI Tax ExemptionApproved

34 Morningside Avenue Cluster

Mandatory inclusionary housing

Committee vote

Ari KaganCarlina RiveraFrancisco P. MoyaJoseph C. BorelliKevin C. Riley Pierina Ana SanchezRafael Salamanca, Jr.Selvena N. Brooks-Powers Shekar Krishnan

Legislation →ULURP case →

02LU 0067-2022C 220232 ZMQZoning MapApproved

Resilient Edgemere Community Initiative

with 4 related matters · LU 0068-2022 · LU 0069-2022 · LU 0070-2022 · LU 0071-2022

Committee vote

Legislation →ULURP case →

03LU 0078-2022C 200317 ZMKZoning MapApproved

41 SUMMIT STREET

Took up the rezoning of 41 Summit Street in Council Member Hanif's Brooklyn district, changing the existing M1-1 manufacturing district to R6B to allow a four-story residential building to be built.

The deal

Site

41 SUMMIT STREET

Stories

4 fl

District

District 39

Committee vote

Ari KaganCarlina RiveraFrancisco P. MoyaJoseph C. BorelliKevin C. Riley Pierina Ana SanchezRafael Salamanca, Jr.Selvena N. Brooks-Powers Shekar Krishnan

Properties41 SUMMIT STREET

Legislation →ULURP case →

04LU 0085-2022G 220016 SCXApproved

Approximately 696-Seat Primary School Facility

Site selection moved forward for a new 696-seat public school in Council Member Dinowitz's Bronx district.

Committee vote

Ari KaganCarlina RiveraFrancisco P. MoyaJoseph C. BorelliKevin C. Riley Pierina Ana SanchezRafael Salamanca, Jr.Selvena N. Brooks-Powers Shekar Krishnan

Legislation →ULURP case →

Also in the record

Records not linked to a specific agenda item

Mandatory inclusionary housing

Procedure

Remote council members use Zoom raise-hand to ask questions; physically present members indicate verbally; chair recognizes speakers — Arthur Ha
William Martin, Committee Clerk, conducts roll call vote for Committee on Land Use; all items coupled — William Martin
Chair thanks members of the public, colleagues, Land Use staff, council staff, and sergeant at arms; adjourns the meeting — Rafael Salamanca, Jr.

The people

On the dais · 4

Darlene Mealy Erik D. Bottcher Farah N. Louis Kamillah Hanks

Public testimony: 2 in favor

Practitioners & applicants

William Martin

The intelligence

Every parcel, owner, and applicant in this meeting, cross-referenced against Zonable’s NYC ownership, enforcement & legislative graph — the record behind the record.

Sign in for the full graph

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