Update on Williamsburg/Greenpoint Rezonings

The Department of City Planning has a couple of rezoning actions in the works for Williamsburg and Greenpoint. First up, the Planning Commission recently approved the a zoning amendment for Grand Street, a 13-block parcel left out of the area's wider 2005 rezone. New developments on Grand will mostly be limited to 50 feet in height, pending the City Council's approval of the change. The second rezoning action on DCP's plate will cover a much larger swath of the two neighborhoodsin East Greenpoint, a 170-block area east of the BQE, roughly from Maujer Street north to the Newtown Creek. No info about this possible rezone on Planning's website yet, but public review might begin by fall and it would impose contextual zoning on streets that are already residential.
Burg Downzone in the Works [Brownstoner]
Rezoning East Greenpoint [WGPA]
Real Estate Round-Up [Eagle]
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I vote to sell Greenpoint to Queens.

Posted by: guest at March 13, 2008 10:32 AM

williamsburg is fine just the way it is

Posted by: radiohead at March 13, 2008 10:48 AM

yea, Greenpoint is too low-crime for Brooklyn.

Posted by: guest at March 13, 2008 10:51 AM

Greenpoint is aight.

http://www.smoinge.com/profile_media/TheProcrastinator/

Posted by: guest at March 13, 2008 11:26 AM

What is up with the Quadraid(sp?) project on Bedford and North 3rd?

They are doing work on the site. Last I heard was that the zoning changes were reversed or something.

Building something that tall there would be a crime.

Posted by: guest at March 13, 2008 12:11 PM

I vote to GIVE Greenpoint to Queens, no charge.

Posted by: guest at March 27, 2008 11:57 PM

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March 13, 2008

Update on Williamsburg/Greenpoint Rezonings

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