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This zoning subcommittee under Chair Kevin Riley advanced a quietly telling slate: most of the rezonings on the table were gym expansions , BQE Fitness at 26-50 Brooklyn Queens Expressway and Planet Fitness at 61-10 Queens Boulevard (with Big Six Towers' support) , alongside a Jamaica mixed-use project where Riley pushed Akerman's applicant past a 25% MWBE goal. The real fireworks came on the citywide DOT street-furniture franchise with JCDecaux: Riley, co-signed by the deputy speaker, hammered a borough-equity concern over where the 360 new bus shelters would actually land, and David Carr sec
“applicants should seek to maximize opportunities to make this building sustainable through the utilization of solar panels”
— Kevin C. Riley
“The ones that are currently in the ground and the ones that have been in stock were purchased by Samousa in 2006”
— Michelle Craven
“the amendment and extension of the citywide coordinated street furniture franchise. The public hearing is now closed and the item is laid”
— Kevin C. Riley
“it's part of the amendment we're gonna add a thirty percent target okay um and that will be for all of their subcontracting”
— Michelle Craven
with 1 related matter · LU 0185-2023
Approved alongside companion LU 185 to rezone the 2560 Boston Road site from R6 and C8-1 to R7-2/C2-4 with an MIH option-one program area, clearing the way for a mixed-use building with roughly 333 mixed-income affordable units in Councilmember Velasquez's district.
with 2 related matters · LU 0187-2023 · LU 0188-2023
Advanced the 23-10 Queens Plaza South rezoning in Councilmember Won's district, changing M1-5/R9 to M1-6/R9 and adding bulk controls plus a special permit (ZR 117-533) to modify building-to-street-wall distance within the Special Long Island City Mixed Use District's Queens Plaza subdistrict.
Moved the rezoning in Councilmember Hanif's district in Brooklyn, switching M1-2, M2-1, and R6 to C4-4A and R6B with an MIH area using options one and two and a ZR 74-681(a)(2) special permit to build over a transit right-of-way, enabling a new five-story commercial building.
Took up the 26-50 Brooklyn Queens Expressway West rezoning in Council Member Caban's district, a map amendment shifting the site from M1-1 to M1-2 in Queens.
Heard the 61-10 Queens Boulevard application to swap the commercial overlay from C1-2 to C2-4, which would let Planet Fitness operate a 16,000 sq ft gym at the Big Six complex instead of the 10,000 sq ft cap.
with 1 related matter · LU 0210-2023
Considered the 141-05 109th Avenue rezoning in Speaker Adams's South Jamaica district, a map amendment from R3A to R6B/C2-3 paired with a text amendment mapping an MIH program area.
Reviewed the proposed amendment to the JCDecaux franchise to extend its term five years and add new rights and obligations, including more bus stop shelters and automatic public toilets; the original deal traced back to a 20-year franchise DOT awarded in 2006.
S5 (council member): why not make use of more density than the proposed expansion
S5 (council member): what was the determination when deciding where to put bus shelters (re: the Bronx)
S5 (council member): Does JCDecaux not view the Bronx or Staten Island as high revenue locations for bus shelters
S1 (council member / chair): what oversight does the agency exercise over franchisee operations; do you do a post mortem after a snowstorm
+1 more procedural steps
Public testimony: 6 in favor
Frank St. Jacques · Maria Platis · Dan Eggers · Chase Villafano
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: 552 oath/ecb hearings across the 4 sites discussed.
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