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Implementation (e.g. council or mayor). DCP has not been in This project will require technical resources the business of preserving manufacturing and Advocate for the Creation including zoning and manufacturing experts will likely not shift or change without direct at the Pratt Center and industrial use experts pressure from above. in the Navy Yard. Financial resources can be of a New Industrial sourced from the Navy Yard and the capital Community Engagement that they bring due to political buy-in and Specifically, community engagement could Zoning Overlay power. This project is estimated to take first begin with communication to the approximately four years of organizing, and MABP Board of Directors about plan. The work should begin right away. The cost for this next step would be appealing to Navy Yard, project will be relatively low; it shouldn’t cost IMPACCT, and other nonprofit developers for much more than time spent advocating and partnership or financial support. After that, Cost $ Given the existing conditions in Wallabout, spaces above. Finally, manufacturing only organizing on the part of the MABP. forming a steering committee with community we propose a new type of zoning overlay for serves as the core industrial area for the zone. and partners listed on the previous page is Duration 4 years the Wallabout industrial area, and ultimately This overlay would be the responsibility a crucial next step. In order to continue to for all of New York City, that will protect Industrial zoning protects the manufacturing Stakeholders of DCP to create and implement. This engage more stakeholders, MABP could do and preserve industry. In other cities that and industrial identity found in Wallabout • Myrtle Ave Bklyn Partnership overlay could be advocated for by MARP participatory action research with people have implemented this, it often looks like and protects it from inappropriate new • Brooklyn Borough partnered with BNY and many other who work in Wallabout industrial area, President’s Office requirements on industrial use percentage, development. IBZs and organizations concerned with conduct focus groups with existing industrial • Brooklyn Navy Yard heritage preservation, design guidelines, industrial preservation such as the Pratt business owners, and survey property owners. • Community Board 2 and strict limitations on commercial and Zoning is the first tool to help generate jobs Center. Advocating for this could include a After reconnecting with the Navy Yard, • Council Member Laurie Cumbo residential uses that could ultimately gentrify and wages for working class residents. • Council Member Stephen Levin steering committee made up of a group of IMPACCT, and other nonprofit developers for industrial use and character. • Industrial Business Owners impassioned stakeholders, ideally drawing partnership or financial support as well as Specifics about each overlay category are: • Industrial Workers from many different groups identified on the the steering committee, MABP could begin • Mayor’s Office of We looked at seven various best practice cases previous page. This will most likely need to to garner political support from community Economic Opportunity when it comes to industrial zoning overlays. Industrial Only be formed as a campaign for the overlay, and board and Council Member alongside the • NYC Dept. of City Planning In San Francisco, the city created Production, • Use Groups: 11, 16, 17 FIGURE 37. • NYCHA Residents bring the issue to an office higher than DCP steering committee and any other partners. Distribution, and Repair districts that explicitly • GF Frontage widths: 28-50 ft I Proposed Overlay Boundaries • Pratt Center disallow office, hotel, and other non-industrial • MAX FAR: 4, manufacturing not less than Case Studies development in these areas, except when 100% ground floor use • Bend County, OR ancillary to the district’s use (Wertheim, • Canby, OR 2014). In Portland, the city prioritizes areas Industrial and Residential • Leon Valley, TX for long-term retention and are concerned • Use Groups: 2, 3, 4, 11, 16, 17 • Portland, OR with heritage preservation of industrial areas • GF Frontage widths: 18-25 ft res, 28-35 ft I • Rancho Cucamonga, CA (Portland Planning and Zoning, 2018). Many • MAX FAR: 5, manufacturing not less than • Rock Falls, IL • San Francisco, CA of the other overlays had strict provisions 75% ground floor use against as of right developments, square Studio Lead footage restrictions for commercial use, and Industrial and Office Josephina Matteson many required extra permitting for any use • Use Groups: 3, 4, 11, 16, 17 beyond industrial. • GF Frontage widths: 28-50 ft I • MAX FAR: 7, manufacturing not less than About this Recommendation 90% ground floor use For the overlay, we have split it into four major categories (see Figure 37). The boundaries Industrial and Retail have been drawn with consideration of • Use Groups: 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 16, 17 Wallabout’s past, current, and future • GF Frontage widths: 20-32 ft Retail, 12-18 ft I conditions. The first, manufacturing and • MAX FAR: 7, manufacturing not less than residential, would allow for manufacturing 30% ground floor use uses on the ground floor with residential use above. The second, manufacturing and Vertical zoning within this overlay further office, allows for the same ground floor promotes the development of residential manufacturing use, with office above instead and commercial spaces, while preserving of residential. Third, manufacturing and industrial jobs. With this proposed overlay, it commercial allows for retail commercial use is the first time industrial use is ever expanded on the ground floor, with manufacturing in New York City. 61 The Wallabout Transition Recommendations: Zone 4 62.

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