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Four Brooklyn rezonings ran through one zoning subcommittee morning, but one dominated: the Christian Cultural Center's 'Innovative Urban Village' in East New York, a 50-50 partnership with Gotham Organization on roughly 2,000 affordable units, a children's playground, a workforce center and a 500-space garage. Pastor A.R. Bernard's witnesses (32BJ, CEC 13, local clergy) lined up in full support; Chair Riley pressed on homeless set-asides and the long subway walk. The other three items , Ninth Street (tied to the Gowanus rezoning), a furniture-store site at 1571 Development, and a 100%-afforda
“parcels from the city totaling about 20,000 square feet, which are controlled by HPD pursuant to a nineteen seventy-three lease”
— Dan Eggers
“This application seeks a zoning map amendment to rezone an existing R5 slash C2-3 zoning district within the special ocean parkway district to a C4-4L district”
— Kevin C. Riley
“Today we will vote on a rezoning proposal in Brooklyn for the ninth street that was heard by the subcommittee on September 22nd”
— Kevin C. Riley
“the traffic consultants for one of the other projects that I mentioned in the 1800 block at McDonald Avenue. It's the reason we picked them to do the EAS”
— Ken Fisher
Took up the Ninth Street rezoning proposal sited in Councilmember Hene's district. No decision was recorded on this item at this hearing.
with 1 related matter · LU 0140-2022
A zoning map amendment was heard to rezone an existing R5/C2-3 district inside the Special Ocean Parkway District to C4-4L. The change was presented for the subcommittee's review at this hearing.
with 1 related matter · LU 0141-2022
with 1 related matter · LU 0144-2022
The 280 Bergen Street rezoning was presented: an Ulano Corporation affiliate proposed converting Boerum Hill's only manufacturing-zoned block (M1-2, mapped in the 1970s for Ulano's expansion) to R7D/C2-4 and R7A with MIH Options 1 and 2, yielding roughly 300 units across four buildings. Ulano disclosed it is relocating operations to Texas and Germany and terminating its HPD lease to allow 100% affordable housing on the city-owned lots.
Q: Average 80% AMI; spread of units not yet finalized with the council member and HPD
Q: Brooklyn-based ownership team spent time on site, talked to people, no formal outreach; community board sent a mailing
Q: Traffic consultants found no significant impact; same consultants did the EAS and worked on another project at 1800 block of McDonald Avenue
Q: Applicant did not accept a bicycle-parking recommendation, citing community board sentiment for more (parking); contrasts with a former district
Q: Contemplating green strategies: predominantly electric power, efficient skin/window systems, green roofs, landscaped rear yard for stormwater infiltration, tree planting; intent to design to many LEED-level specifications
+6 more exchanges
Public testimony: 28 in favor
Sergei Ryback · Ken Fisher · Kate Cunningham · Linda Hayes · Laurie Majet · Dan Eggers · Lincoln Restler · Committee Counsel (unbound for 19575; modern-era corpus role-holder = Arthur Ha, but NOT self-stated/introduced in this meeting's supplied quotes)
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: 132 oath/ecb hearings across the 2 sites discussed.
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