M1 Hotel Text Final Scope of Work
Draft Final Scope of Work M1 Hotel Text Amendment Draft Final Scope of Work for an Environmental Impact Statement New York City Department of City Planning CEQR No. 18DCP042Y ULURP No. N180349ZRY PREPARED BY VHB Engineering Surveying & Landscape Architecture PC One Penn Plaza Suite 715 New York, NY 10119 212.695.5858 April 23, 2018 i Final Scop of Work M1 Hotels Text Amendment EIS I Introduction As New York City’s population and employment numbers hit record highs, competition for scarce buildable land is growing especially strong. Light manufacturing zoning districts (M1 zones) have emerged as areas of opportunity, presenting some of the city’s last reservoirs of buildable land, and rules regulating land use and development in these districts have changed little since the city was comprehensively rezoned in 1961. The City’s 10-Point Industrial Action Plan, announced by Mayor de Blasio in November 2015, aims to support industrial job growth in Industrial Business Zones (IBZs), the city’s most active manufacturing zones (NYC Office of the Mayor, 2015). The Plan’s proposals included the creation of a new special permit for hotels, to preserve opportunities for industrial and manufacturing businesses in IBZs. However, comprehensive planning efforts are equally necessary to determine whether other M zones outside of IBZs, and particularly many M1 zones, may be better suited for the expansion of commercial and institutional uses, and in certain instances new housing development, to meet the needs of a growing city. The Department of City Planning needs to ensure that sufficient opportunities to support industrial, commercial, residential and institutional growth remain, and believes it would be beneficial to revisit the zoning framework for M1 districts.
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