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DECEMBER 2005 Center for New York City Law VOLUME 2, NUMBER 11 CITYLAND DECEMBER 2005 center for new york city law VOLUME 2, NUMBER 11 M1-2 R 6A A R 6 R 6B 8 R A 6 RR6A R 6B A -3 Highlights R6B 4 R 7B C * A 8 R CITY COUNCIL R 6B R6B A 1 3 5t - h S t Council overrides Mayor’s veto .163 4 r A e ee 6 u C t R n A e R6B 7 DOB criticized by Council . .164 v R M1-2D A th R 6B 4 A RR6A6A Olinville, Bronx downzoned . .165 8 R6B R8AR R5B Two down-zonings in SI . .166 A 6 R Prospect Park R 6B R6B R 8B CITY PLANNING COMMISSION 24 th S t High Line garage OK’ed . .166 M1-1D re R5B R et 6 k r A a P t New Brooklyn BID app’d . .167 c 2 e 3 p r s d o t S M r s tr P e e 1 W et - BOARD OF STANDARDS & APPEALS 1 R5B Green-Wood NoHo bldg. OK’ed at 120 ft. .167 Cemetery R5 Nursing home for W.Village . .168 South Park Slope Rezoning used with permission of the New York City Department of City Planning. Bldg. exceeds Bklyn. rezoning . .168 All rights reserved. College Pt. owner withdraws . .169 CITY COUNCIL meeting before the Council’s Sub- LANDMARKS committee on Zoning and Fran- 1867 Chelsea stable to stay . .169 Rezoning chises, Planning Commission SI villa calendared . .170 South Park Slope, Brooklyn Chair Amanda M. Burden referred to the proposal as “emergency zon- Firefighter Memorial gets paths . .171 Rezoning and inclusionary ing,” referencing rapid out-of- housing approved character growth in the area. She COURT DECISIONS was supported by a representative Hudson Park to get $21.5M . .172 South Park Slope rezoned to from the Fifth Avenue Committee, Bklyn. condo fate goes to trial . .172 protect low-rise character and pro- who expressed concern that a fail- vide affordable housing. On ure to rezone South Park Slope ADMINISTRATIVE DECISIONS November 16, 2005, the City Council would result in a loss of sound rezoned 50 blocks of South Park affordable housing due to currently No conflict for CB7 vote . .173 Slope and applied the inclusionary proposed luxury housing. housing program to specific R8A LEGISLATION A representative for Green- districts along Fourth Avenue, Wood Cemetery testified that devel- Council seeks LPC’s power . 173 allowing an increase in a building’s opment must be curbed to preserve floor area with the developers’ the sight corridor between the Stat- CHARTS commitment to build affordable ue of Liberty and the cemetery’s DCP Pipeline . .164 housing on or off site. The propos- Statue of Minerva because the two al called for the rezoning of an area ULURP Pipeline . .167 figures were constructed to face generally bounded by 15th Street each other in recognition of the Rev- BSA Pipeline . .169 on the north, Fourth Avenue on the olutionary War’s Battle of Brooklyn. Landmarks Actions . .171 west, Prospect Park West on the Community Board 7 and the Landmarks Pipeline . .172 east, and 24th Street and Green- South Park Slope Community Citylaw.org New Decisions . .174 Wood Cemetery on the south. Group spoke in favor of the rezon- At the November 14, 2005 ing and urged (cont’d on page 163) December 2005 Volume 2 CITYLAND 161 COMMENTARY 24 Rezonings in 2005: Election Year No Barrier to Commission and Council During an election year governmental decision making often comes to a stop, but that did not happen dur- ing this past election year. Twenty-four major rezonings made it all the way through approval by the Council. Among them were changes in zoning that will dictate New York City’s built environment for years to come. Perhaps most important were the three rezonings on the West Side of Manhattan: Hudson Yards, West Chelsea/High Line and the Far West Village. The Hudson Yards rezoning redrew the zoning map to accommodate modern commercial and residential development in what had been mostly a manufacturing district, and did so over a vast area running from 30th Street to 43rd Street, the Hudson River to as far east as Seventh Avenue. This huge invitation for redevelopment passed relatively unnoticed in the shadow of the debate over the Jets Stadium. One wonders what would have occurred without the stadium as a stalking horse. The much smaller West Village rezon- ing seemed to have garnered more public energy and media notice than the more epochal Hudson Yards rezoning. The important Greenpoint/Williamsburg rezoning did get significant media coverage; it had no stadium as a running mate and therefore could not hide its impact. Still the Council successfully brought it to fruition. Other rezonings also passed, many of which down-zoned areas to protect the existing character of neighbor- hoods, prevent demolition of housing in favor of greater density, and protect natural areas. This issue of CITY- LAND reports four such rezonings: South Park Slope, Olinville and Bay Terrace/Oakwood. Others like the Port Morris rezoning, increased the possibilities for residential use in manufacturing districts. The Planning Commission and Council accomplished all this in an election and last year of an administra- tion. Council members and Planning Commissioners deserve to be congratulated for a year of real accomplish- ment and change. As the year turns and new leadership is selected in the Council, the old leadership can take pride in its land use record. Ross Sandler REMINDER: THERE WILL BE NO JANUARY ISSUE OF CITYLAND. THE NEXT ISSUE WILL BE MAILED ON FEBRUARY 15, 2006. CITYLAND Ross Sandler Robert Merola Jeffrey Ocasio Executive Editor and Director, Design Director Web Master The Center expresses appreciation to the individu- Center for New York City Law als and foundations supporting the Center and its Angelina Martinez-Rubio ‘04 Michele M. Herrmann ‘06 work: The Steven and Sheila Aresty Foundation, Melanie Cash ‘02 Kevin Schultz ‘05 Lydia Mann ‘07 Associate Director Fellows in New York City Law Laurie A. Moffat ‘07 The Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, Fund For Research Assistants the City of New York, The Horace W. Goldsmith Molly Brennan Jesse Denno Foundation, The Murray Goodgold Foundation, Editor, CityLand Publication Production Assistant Jerry Gottesman, The Marc Haas Foundations, The CITYLAND ADVISORY BOARD New York Community Trust, The Prospect Hill Foundation, and The Revson Foundation. Kent Barwick Howard Goldman Frank Munger Andrew Berman David Karnovsky Carol E. Rosenthal CITYLAN D (ISSN 1551-711X) is published 11 times Albert K. Butzel Ross Moskowitz ‘84 Paul D. Selver a year by the Center for New York City Law at New York Law School, 57 Worth St., New York City, New CENTER FOR NEW YORK CITY LAW ADVISORY COUNCIL York 10013, tel. (212) 431-2115, fax (212) 941-4735, e-mail: [email protected], website: www.city- Stanley S. Shuman, Michael D. Hess Norman Redlich law.org © Center for New York City Law, 2005. All Chair rights reserved. Printed on recycled paper. Maps Lawrence S. Huntington ‘64 Joseph B. Rose CITYLAND Arthur N. Abbey ‘59 William F. Kuntz II Ernst H. Rosenberger ‘58 presented in are from Map-PLUTO Harold Baer, Jr. copyrighted by the New York City Department of Eric Lane Rose Luttan Rubin David R. Baker City Planning. City Landmarks and Historic Dis- Randy M. Mastro Frederick P. Schaffer Edward N. Costikyan tricts printed with permission of New York City Richard Matasar Paul A. Crotty Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr. Landmarks Preservation Commission. Robert J. McGuire Richard J. Davis O. Peter Sherwood Francis McArdle Edward Wallace POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Fernando Ferrer CITYLAND Michael B. Gerrard John D. McMahon ‘76 Richard M. Weinberg , 57 Worth Street, New York, New York Judah Gribetz Thomas L. McMahon ‘83 Peter L. Zimroth 10013-2960. Periodicals postage paid at New York, New York. Kathleen Grimm ‘80 Steven M. Polan James D. Zirin 162 Volume 2 CITYLAND December 2005 the Council to act quickly, express- ing would be difficult to convert to ing concern that property owners CITY COUNCIL residential use if it were designated will rush to obtain vested develop- a landmark and urged the Subcom- ment rights. The groups attributed Landmark Designation mittee to vote against designation. the deaths of two construction Williamsburg, Brooklyn Council Member Oliver Koppell workers in the last six months to noted that it was his habit to defer rushed development efforts. A Park Council nixes designation of to the council member whose dis- Slope resident and structural engi- Cass Gilbert warehouse trict holds the landmark, so he neer testified that the developers’ would support Yassky’s no-vote. Council overrode mayor’s veto, rush to pour concrete in cold Council Member Melinda claiming Cass Gilbert-designed weather increases the likelihood Katz, Chair of the Land Use Com- building is unworthy of designation. that foundations are unsafe. mittee, voted no on the designation, On December 5, 2005, Mayor but noted her disagreement with Council Member Tony Avella Michael Bloomberg vetoed the City Yassky over the impact of the poten- noted that he has been working on a Council’s vote rejecting the Land- tial designation on the Williams- bill to place a moratorium on devel- marks Preservation Commission’s burg/Greenpoint rezoning. Calling opment in areas that are being eval- designation of a Williamsburg, herself the “main negotiator” of that uated for rezoning. Council Mem- Brooklyn warehouse. The Council rezoning, Katz stated that the desig- bers Michael E. McMahon, Chris- gathered sufficient votes on Decem- nation “has nothing to do with” the tine Quinn, and Simcha Felder sug- ber 8th to override the mayor, call- rezoning and stated that her vote gested that they would support ing the building simply unworthy.
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