Marty Signs Off on FG/CH Rezoning
Six weeks after the Department of City Planning certified the proposal for the contextual rezoning of Clinton Hill and Fort Greene and two days after Community Board 2 proposed two modifications, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz on Friday recommended that the City Planning Commission and City Council approve the plan with only one of CB2’s…
Six weeks after the Department of City Planning certified the proposal for the contextual rezoning of Clinton Hill and Fort Greene and two days after Community Board 2 proposed two modifications, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz on Friday recommended that the City Planning Commission and City Council approve the plan with only one of CB2’s suggestions in place. While agreeing with CB2’s recommendation to grandfather a planned Pratt expansion under the existing R7-1 zoning (which would enable the school to build 17 percent more space than under the proposed R7-A), Marty did not go along with the board’s suggestion (championed by Tish James) that developers participating in the inclusionary housing program be required to keep their affordable housing on the site of the project receiving the bonus as opposed to building it somewhere else. “There are program efficiencies in constructing a building entirely for affordable housing that increases the likeliness that such a development could be underwritten with government financing and subsidies,” according to fax that went out on Friday. Next steps: City Planning Commission hearing on June 20. The big question now is whether taking the time to consider the two modifications by CB2 will delay a vote by City Planning until after the summer recess. The choice may come down to approving the rezoning as originally envisioned before the summer recess or waiting to consider the modifications until after with the price being the extra foundations that developers may get in the ground in the meantime. The June 20 hearing will be a chance for residents to voice their opinion on this and other issues related to the rezoning.
At the end of the Fort Greene/Clinton Hill recommendation, Marty hit on two other zoning-related issues. (1) He reiterated his support for the landmarking of Dumbo (which he had already expressed in a letter to LPC in 2005); (2) He recommended that City Planning and the City Council make inclusionary zoning laws apply to Downtown Brooklyn. “In 2004, DCP and the City Council adopted the Downtown Brooklyn rezoning. It did not provide for inclusionary zoning. The time has come to revisit Downtown Brooklyn in order to amend the zoning resolution to include such provisions, and to fix what was started three years ago.”
City Planning Certifies FG/CH Rezoning Plan [Brownstoner]
6:57, you can probably also expect a dormitory between Myrtle and Park (the orange R7A “peninsula” next to the M1-1 district in the upper right hand corner of the above map). I bet most people in Clinton Hill would support the modest expansion of this neighborhood institution. But by refusing to engage the community in a dialogue about their mutual needs, and making an end run straight to City Planning, my support for the school is greatly diminished.
What other buildings will Pratt build in the future?
Pratt and Tish can never do wrong??
k, a roughly 100′ high building for administrative offices and studios, with ground floor retail
Does anyone know what Pratt is planning on building?
Thanks, good to know. Myrtle could use some development. I was there yesterday and it certainly has a ways to go.
check out the link…basically interior brownstone blocks get FAR reduced while the main strips of Fulton and Myrtle get increased.
What are the practical implications of this rezoning?
Just a reminder that nothing needed from Borough President. An almost powerless position and his ‘sign-off’, if one exists at all, is not required. He can only advise, suggest, comment and lobby.