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Three quiet Brooklyn/Queens rezonings sailed through 7-0 in minutes , a 10-unit Avenue U building, a Queens enlargement, a College Point drive-thru. Then the room shifted to Arthur Kill Terminal, a marine staging yard for assembling offshore wind turbines on a vacant waterfront site just south of the Outerbridge Crossing. Applicant Charles Doherty pitched ~600 construction jobs and three-quarters of a billion dollars, while openly conceding the project must dredge 18 acres and fill putative freshwater wetlands. Minority Leader Borelli pressed hardest , needling that 35 acres of Jamaica Bay res
“what we're doing to mitigate is we are restoring and remediating seven acres of freshwater wetlands in Mariner's Marsh. So you're getting a better than two to one impact”
— Charles Doherty
“that's incredibly disappointing because you're talking about, oh, we're getting more than two to one on Staten Island, but you're not doing us a favor, that's the formula the law sets”
— Joseph C. Borelli
“NICERTA took steps immediately to commence a new solicitation to replace the contracts that had fallen apart as a result of the GE problem. There's an RFP coming out”
— Charles Doherty
“a number of the tradespeople and and uh artisans that currently work in New York have the base knowledge to be very productive workers on these offshore wind farms”
— Charles Doherty
with 1 related matter · LU 0091-2024
Approved on the meeting's first vote, covering LUs 90 and 91 for the project known as 2118 Avenue.
Approved as the second vote of the day, clearing LU 92 for the 58-75 Queens-Midtown Expressway proposal.
Approved on the third vote, advancing LU 93 for the 27-24 College Point Boulevard proposal.
with 3 related matters · LU 0102-2024 · LU 0103-2024 · LU 0104-2024
Advanced as a plan to create a manufacturing staging area for assembling windmills.
+1 more conditions
Kamillah Hanks · Kevin C. Riley · Committee Counsel (unbound; dominant corpus role-holder lineage = Christian Hilton, NOT self-stated/introduced in 20887)
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.