The Post is reporting this morning that the city is “quietly circulating” a proposal to allow developers to build up to 12 stories along Fourth Avenue between 15th and 24th Streets in the South Slope. (In 2003, the city rezoned the northern end of Fourth Avenue from Warren Street to 15th Street.) The proposal also includes provisions that would simultaneously restrict the size of buildings on residential side streets in the South Slope, Windsor Terracea and Sunset Park in an apparent effort to ease residents’ concerns about “out-of-scale” construction. The city estimates that the rezoning could result in about 300 units of new housing over the next 10 years.
City to Raise Roof on B’kln Housing [NY Post]