CB6 Says Full-on Yes to Toll Brothers Rezoning
The CB6 land-use committee voted yes to the Toll Brothers’ request for spot rezoning back in October, which would allow them to construct a complex of buildings, some 12-stories high (along with creating a public park along the canal and some permanently affordable housing). Not surprising to many, the full board met for a general…
The CB6 land-use committee voted yes to the Toll Brothers’ request for spot rezoning back in October, which would allow them to construct a complex of buildings, some 12-stories high (along with creating a public park along the canal and some permanently affordable housing). Not surprising to many, the full board met for a general meeting last night and gave their collective thumbs up, too, says PMFA and Curbed. Much of the pro-rezoning sentiment came from a Field of Dreams vision for the polluted canal: If you build it, they will clean (they, ostensibly, being the city, which would be pressured by local residents; therefore you need local residents). But the consortium of local groups known as FROGG was staunchly against the rezoning. They sent a letter to CB6 (reprinted on the Carroll Gardens Petition blog) stating that “the environmental concerns are in themselves sufficient reason to predicate any change of use, involving a dense residential development along the FEMA flood way, upon a known and verifiable cleanup of the canal waters that include limits on the pathogens levels.” There’s also the problem of un-mitigatable smells.” Clearly, that didn’t change the minds of CB6 members, but all is not lost for those who oppose it. The next ULURP step is an 11/19 meeting with the Borough Prez.
Photo from PFMA.
Speaking of fire and brimstone:
November 11, 2008, 3:50 pm
Toll on New York: It’s Dead
Robert I. Toll, the chief executive of the luxury home builder Toll Brothers, used to say New York City was the bright spot for home sales. No more.
“New York City was a nice stand-alone beacon,” he said in a conference call this afternoon. “Now it has joined the rest of the country.”
benson, per pmfa: they met in the Old First Reformed Church in Park Slope.
I am curious as to what are the alternatives to Housing for the area. Besides just leaving it the way it is, has there been any other proposals?
benson…sure looks like some “fire and brimstone” has hailed from that pulpit!!!!
I echo DIBS’ sentiments.
By the way, what is the venue shown in the photo?? Certainly gives them a “grand, mytic exalted community board” aura.
Good for CB6 that they have been flexible enough on zoning issues to allow development that might never have happened and left this area an ugly eyesore.