At a community forum hosted by Mayor Bloomberg and attended by seven community boards on Tuesday night, Amanda Burden announced that the City Planning Commission was committed to completing a zoning study for Sunset Park by the end of the year. This news follows closely on the heels of the news that the tower planned for 420 42nd Street would be trimmed from 12 stories to six after much protest from the neighborhood and intervention by councilwoman Gonzalez. As we learned from an email from CB 7′s Randy Peers, the campaign to attract City Planning’s attention to the area dates back to 2005. The straw that broke the camel’s back may have been the long list of out-of-scale developments that rezoning proponents submitted to Burden’s office.
420 42nd Street Building Gets Cut in Half [Brownstoner]
Sunset Park To Enter Downzoning Olympics [Curbed]
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