Bay Ridge's Reining In of Non-Contextual Building

Continuing last week’s discussion on contextual development and the appropriateness of building restrictions, we dug up the Department of City Plannings Proposal (which was approved back in May) to protect certain sections of Bay Ridge:

[The rezoning] would provide protections against out-of-scale development on Bay Ridge’s unique limestone townhouse blocks and it would triple the number of blocks where only detached homes would be permitted. In other parts of the neighborhood, the proposed zoning is also tailored to the prevailing neighborhood context, allowing opportunities for apartment house construction with ground floor retail on the neighborhood’s main thoroughfares, as well as supporting a continued auto showroom and commercial presence in the neighborhood’s commercial core surrounding 86th Street.

The photos above, from 80th Street and 95th Street, are examples of the kind of non-contextual building that drove the proposal.
Bay Ridge Rezoning [NYC City Planning]