The one where the Land Use Committee waved through 16 housing deals 10-0 — but a casino footnote drew the lone 'no
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A workmanlike coupled Land Use Committee vote moved a stack of affordable-housing deals , the East Tremont Cluster, the 431 10th Street / Gowanus redevelopment (305 units, 162 affordable), Melrose Concourse NCP, and 41 Richard Street's industrial rezoning , all advancing 10-0. Alexa Avilés led the housing case, reluctantly accepting the MIH workforce option after Stellar committed deeper 50%/70% AMI units. The friction was the casino-siting zoning text amendment: Hudson explained her yes as a procedural step to let the state's review run, not an endorsement, and Pierina Sanchez cast the meetin
From the room
“development of three new buildings with approximately seventy-one affordable units, including twenty-three affordable senior units”
— Rafael Salamanca, Jr.
“to allow the state's community advisory committee process to take place as there's no application in my district”
— Crystal Hudson
“change an existing M1-1 district to an M1-5 district and would facilitate the development of a new eight-story mixed-use industrial commercial”
— Rafael Salamanca, Jr.
“an activation of ground floor retail along the 9th Street, an enhancement of a long-awaited public outdoor space”
— Alexa Avilés
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01LU 0035-2024C 240099 HAXApproved
East Tremont Cluster NCP
with 1 related matter · LU 0036-2024
Voted to approve the East Tremont Cluster NCP project (LUs 35 and 36), greenlighting a UDAAP designation, disposition, and an Article XI tax exemption that clears the way for three new buildings and roughly 64 affordable units, 20 of them reserved for seniors.
with 3 related matters · LU 0042-2024 · LU 0046-2024 · LU 0047-2024
All five land use actions for the 431 10th Street redevelopment in Council Member Aviles' Brooklyn district moved to approval, rezoning the site from R6B to R7-3 with a C2-4 overlay and an MIH text amendment, plus two special permits and a tax exemption.
The Melrose Concourse NCP project (LUs 51, 52, and 62) was approved, locking in a UDAAP designation, project and disposition approvals, acquisition of part of one site, and an Article XI tax exemption.
Approved the 80-01 Broadway commercial overlay in Council Member Krishna's Queens district (LU 61), a zoning map amendment that legalizes an existing commercial use along an active commercial corridor.
LU 63 was approved, authorizing DCAS to dispose of the city-owned property at 97-22 Cresskill Place in Council Member Williams' Queens district, transferring it out of Department of Sanitation jurisdiction.
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