Zoning Debate Continues in Carroll Gardens

The Carroll Gardens rezoning discussion continued on Wednesday with a NYC Planning Commission Hearing for Carroll Gardens and the Columbia Street Waterfront. If you haven’t tuned into this station before, the current rezoning plan calls for a R6B designation for many residential blocks in Carroll Gardens, which imposes a building height of 50 feet. This Carroll Gardeners like. But R6A, which is what the plan dictates for several blocks of Columbia Street, Henry Street, and Clinton Street? Not so much. Residents actually consider this an up-zoning, since the increase in FAR from 2.2 to 3.0 could allow owners to build additions on their roofs. The city posits that the change will bring some buildings on those blocks into compliance. Katia at Pardon Me for Asking points out that “What is needed, in essence, is a special zoning in between an R6A and R6B to not only bring the out-of-scale buildings into compliance, but also to limit any additional height.” She adds, “It seems unlikely that these tools will be created any time soon.”
Carroll Gardeners Oppose R6A Zoning [PMFA]
ULURP Begins for Carroll Gardens Rezoning [Brownstoner]
Carroll Gardeners Prepare for Hearing [Brooklyn Eagle]
Carroll Gardens/Columbia Street Rezoning [DOCP official plan]