How Big Is Domino? Very Big
UPDATE: The Brooklyn Paper is reporting that Community Board 1 Land Use Committee voted against the project at its meeting last night; both Land Use and CB1 Board votes are just advisory and cannot block the project on their own. Details here. At the beginning of the year, City Planning certified the New Domino for…
UPDATE: The Brooklyn Paper is reporting that Community Board 1 Land Use Committee voted against the project at its meeting last night; both Land Use and CB1 Board votes are just advisory and cannot block the project on their own. Details here.
At the beginning of the year, City Planning certified the New Domino for the ULURP process. To get ready for the first stop on the traveling road show, blogger and Community Board 1 member Brooklyn 11211 has been taking a close look at the Environmental Impact Statement that developer CPC was required to file as part of its ULURP application. (The project is required to go through ULURP because the developer is seeking a rezoning.) It’s a long post and well worth reading in its entirety but here are a few stats, some generally known and others we haven’t seen before:
– Total Square Feet: 2,800,000
– Residential Square Feet: 2,400,000
– Retail Square Feet: 127,000
– Square Feet Allowed by 2005 Zoning: 2,200,000
– Average Unit Size: 1,000 square feet
– Total Residential Units: 2,200 (per developer; 11211 thinks more)
– Number of Affordable Units: 660
– Acres of Public Open Space: 4
– Number of Parking Spaces: 1,694 (153 more than as of right)
– Number of Bicycle Parking Spaces: 456 (1,241 less than as of right)
The most important bit of analysis, in our opinion, comes at the end of the post on the topic of transportation: Hundreds of extra riders are expected to head towards the L train on Bedford and North 7th and the new residents are predicted to have a “significant adverse impact” on the J/M/Z stop at Marcy Avenue. As he points out, though, short of shuttle buses and water taxis, there ain’t a heck of a lot the developer can do to improve the transit situation.
Domino By The Numbers [Brooklyn 11211]
City Planning Certifies Domino Sugar Factory for ULURP [Brownstoner]
New Landscape Renderings on ‘New Domino’ Site [Brownstoner]
Inside the LPC Meeting About Domino: New Plan OK’d [Brownstoner]
LPC Still Not Buying Domino Plan [Brownstoner]
New Domino Plans Falter at LPC Hearing [Brownstoner]
More Domino Plans [Brownstoner]
Domino Sugar Factory Proposed Addition Revealed [Brownstoner]
BREAKING! LPC Approves Historic Designation for Domino [Brownstoner]
CPC Shows and Tells Its Plans for Domino [Brownstoner] GMAP
Plans for ‘New Domino’ Released by City Planning [Brownstoner]
the developers and construction industry people will come and go having made lots of money and the people who live here will be left with a project that is way too large and dense for this hood to handle gracefully.
Not sure the people here will turn out in good numbers for the April 28th City Council hearing to protect the area the way people probably would in other Brooklyn neighborhoods that have been established for much longer but i plan to be there
Polemecist – yes, parking is required by zoning, but not this AMOUNT of parking. Domino needs a special waiver to get this many spaces, zoning requires far less (somewhere around 1,000 spaces, I’m not exactly sure).
Polemicist: I understand that the zoning regs require parking, but that doesn’t make realistic sense. If we stop to think about this project, adding that much parking capacity deprives the neighborhood of better uses for that space, and most of those parking spaces aren’t necessary to entice people to move in to Domino.
The amount of parking is truly ludicrous — far more than what is required by zoning. It will sit empty, and encourage more car ownership and more driving. It’s a disaster of parking. A tsunami of parking. And that will generate a tsunami of driving and traffic.
dittoburg – the L and the J are about equidistant from here (unless by “right here” you mean 100′ overhead on the bridge!). The L is marginally closer if you’re starting out closer to Grand Street, the J if you’re starting out closer to S5th. On top of which the L is more/better connected to other lines once you’re in Manhattan.
CB1 are all over the place. They approve 40-story behemoths in North Greenpoint where the current highest building is a spired church and piss off all the current residents, then they deny this reasonably well thought out development. And with the JMZ right here, why would everyone trek to the L? I’m sure half of em would just jump on a J.
found maps here:
http://nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/env_review/domino_sugar/domino_draft_scope.pdf
bkabak:
Zoning outside of Manhattan usually requires parking. I imagine that is the case here.
Once upon a time, the city’s role in facilitating development was just to build infrastructure – transit, roads, etc – and leave private development to private parties. Development contributed to infratructure by increasing the tax base.
Now the City doesn’t do that any more. Instead its development program is to partner, through tax breaks and subsidies and land disposition, with individual, connected developers.