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Jamaica, Queens has heard 'plan after plan' from administration after administration for years with little to show. At this zoning subcommittee, Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and Councilmember Nantasha Williams personally championed the Jamaica Neighborhood Plan, a 230-block rezoning in their own districts promising nearly 12,000 homes (about 4,200 permanently affordable), the largest MIH area ever mapped in NYC, and over $413 million in investments. The Council won concessions: MIH Option 2 removed downtown, heights stepped down along the Sutphin/Guy R. Brewer/Merrick corridors, and an indep
“targeted adjustments to densities along corridors extending south of downtown Jamaica and remove very limited portions of certain districts”
— Kevin C. Riley
“LU three ninety seven the seventy four Bogart Street rezoning in Council Member Gutierrez District is being laid over to a future”
— Kevin C. Riley
“a property in Councilmember Williams and Councilmember Janara's district, as well within Speaker Adams District in Southeast Queens”
— Kevin C. Riley
“two a hundred percent affordable housing development along union hall street with approximately eighty three units of rental units and thirty-four units of home ownership”
— Nantasha M. Williams
Approved 7-0-0: a private rezoning of an existing M1 district at 535 Morgan Avenue in Brooklyn, in Councilmember Gutierrez's district. The change clears the way for a grocery store larger than 10,000 square feet in an existing retail building, which the current zoning didn't permit as-of-right.
Approved as the related Station Plaza Jamaica city map change (LU 372), a DOT-and-EDC application that amends the city map to refine the design of the ongoing Station Plaza enhancement project within the Jamaica Neighborhood Plan area.
with 2 related matters · LU 0370-2025 · LU 0371-2025
Approved with modifications by a unanimous 7-0-0 vote: the Jamaica Neighborhood Plan, the city's largest neighborhood rezoning in over two decades, mapping nearly 12,000 new homes including almost 4,200 permanently affordable. The Council reshaped the city-sponsored plan rather than rubber-stamping it.
Nantasha M. Williams · Committee Clerk (unnamed)
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: 225 oath/ecb hearings across the 1 site discussed.
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