Lifting Height Limits on More of Fourth Avenue
The Post is reporting this morning that the city is “quietly circulating” a proposal to allow developers to build up to 12 stories along Fourth Avenue between 15th and 24th Streets in the South Slope. (In 2003, the city rezoned the northern end of Fourth Avenue from Warren Street to 15th Street.) The proposal also…
The Post is reporting this morning that the city is “quietly circulating” a proposal to allow developers to build up to 12 stories along Fourth Avenue between 15th and 24th Streets in the South Slope. (In 2003, the city rezoned the northern end of Fourth Avenue from Warren Street to 15th Street.) The proposal also includes provisions that would simultaneously restrict the size of buildings on residential side streets in the South Slope, Windsor Terracea and Sunset Park in an apparent effort to ease residents’ concerns about “out-of-scale” construction. The city estimates that the rezoning could result in about 300 units of new housing over the next 10 years.
City to Raise Roof on B’kln Housing [NY Post]
If anyone is still following this thread, there was a hearing regarding this zoning this past Thursday with Borough Pres. Markowitz at Borough Hall. Community members still largely in support of the “downzoning” the DOP drew up, although lots of concerns about developments already in the pipes on and nr. 4th and 5th avenues getting pushed through to beat new zoning despite lots of safety concerns. If anyone has information or wants to know more about these developments, feel free to email me at bruce_Wallace@hotmail.com
We’ve got to build housing somewhere. Why not 4th Avenue in Park Slope? The low rise character of the side streets can be preserved with the plan for higher buildings on 4th Avenue.
I heard from a local architect that one of the problems has been building over the subway.. very little room to dig underground. That is a particular problem because they want to build high-rises which require parking (required for more than 8 unit buildings, i think), and nobody wants them above-ground.
Pending development on 4th ave. was the cover story in BKLYN magazine a couple months ago – did anyone see that? There’s a lot in the pipeline – Boymelgreen seems to figure prominently in the plans for the Ave.
I think it’s a good thing for the housing market, a bad thing for people who will actually have to cross 4th ave. to get from their homes to shopping, the playground or anywhere else.
You may be right David. We will just have to wait and see. The new demolition is somewhere around 6th street or so on the 3rd Ave side — a big metal storage structure of somekind. There is new scafolding there from one of the companies that specializes in demolition.
One of the reasons for the slow progression is that, at least according to a number of articles I have read, the Brooklyn building permit approval process has a lot of delays right now.
RW
whatever happened to the plan (discussed about 2 yrs ago) to refurb 4th ave into “brooklyn’s park avenue” with a planting strip in the center and more generous sidewalks?
Not soon enough Mr. Brownstoner! I really don’t believe the affordable housing angle though.
About Fourth Avenue… You know you can get your flat fixed and pick up a McBurger at 12 p.m. I love Brooklyn.
Good for the side streets unless you happen to own the first house in from 4th Ave. Anyway, anyone who uses Forth Ave in the morning or the evening rush hours knows it has the potential to turn from a major highway to a parking lot in an instant. If you want to live on Fourth Ave., Its better to be living on the 12th floor. (fantastic sunsets).
This change can’t happen soon enough for this community.