FG/CH Vesting: The Winners and Losers
When the City Council signed off on the rezoning of Clinton Hill and Fort Greene last week, the most high-profile project that was halted for not having its foundation complete was 163 Washington Avenue. At the time, two other sites of greatest concern were 122 Adelphi Street (top) and 97 Grand Avenue (bottom), both of…
When the City Council signed off on the rezoning of Clinton Hill and Fort Greene last week, the most high-profile project that was halted for not having its foundation complete was 163 Washington Avenue. At the time, two other sites of greatest concern were 122 Adelphi Street (top) and 97 Grand Avenue (bottom), both of which had received approval for 11-story towers. We went by this week to check them out there were certainly not any Stop Work Orders posted—nor are there any listed on line. The Greenpoint Star, which actually called up DOB and got a list of which projects in the area vested and which are going to have to play by the new rules, confirmed that both towers are able to proceed. By far the most worrisome of the two is 122 Adelphi, which will tower over the low-rise block and dwarf the beautiful mid-19th-century woodframe house next door. Particularly frustrating was the fact that DOB gave the developer a special permit to work over the weekend right before the rezoning vote, allowing him to slip under the wire. “It’s offensive that an agency could be so insensitive to the sentiments of the community,” said Enid Braun, a resident who’s been trying to fight the project since it was first announced back in 2004. Offensive indeed.
120 Adelphi Street: GMAP P*Shark DOB
97 Grand Avenue: GMAP P*Shark DOB
163 Washington Misses Zoning Cut-Off [Brownstoner]
Council OKs Three Rezonings and One Landmarking [Brownstoner]
The Very Vest of Ft. Greene/Clinton HIll [Ledger Star]
The Very Vest of Ft. Greene/Clinton HIll [Greenpoint Star]
12:39pm ..give us examples in s-slope, just curious
Don’t count the chickens about the “unvested” properties just yet. If they’ve done any work, they can go to BSA and claim they are vested enough and get a permit to build under the old zoning. This happenned all over the South Slope.
Anybody know what the permit was for at 290 Carlton Ave? This is a fully built landmark block. Can’t imagine what they were going to try to build/what they are going to build? Thanks.
Should have planned on conforming to R6B from the beginning rather than pushing the limits of contextual conformity in the hopes of getting in a couple of months before the changes…
What about the development on Washington between Fulton and Atlantic?
Should have planned on conforming to R6B from the beginning rather than pushing the limits of contextual conformity in the hopes of getting in a couple of months before the changes…
What about the development on Washington between Fulton and Atlantic?
11:53, it isn’t often that I find myself defending DCP, but the September/October estimate was sincere. Community Board 2 got the Borough President and City Planning Commission to expedite their public hearings and Councilwoman James did the same for the three meetings at the City Council. If that fast-tracking hadn’t taken place, the rezoning wouldn’t have occurred until the fall, as DCP predicted. And before you re-direct your anger at the councilwoman and the community board, bear in mind that they worked on the rezoning for over three years. What some people consider two months early, others think of as at least a year late.
what about the horrible tower on Greene bet. Classon & Franklin – too far East to be covered?
The entire process was disingenuous. There was no clarity of process or time frame. I am an architect with a client who purchased an undersized lot upon which they intended to construct a single family residence. We proceeded with documents based on the assumption of R6, and that the change of the district, according to city planning officials, would occur in September or October. It was probably planned from day one to have the change occur 2 months earlier. I am appalled by the clear dishonesty of city officials in this instance. Just tell us the truth. Give a clear time frame upon which the private sector can make informed economic decisions. I work primarily for individuals and small developers who are working on very tight margins for error. In the rush to stall “non-contextual” projects, the overall economic health of the city is injured. Yet Atlantic Yards with its flagrant misuse of eminent domain goes forward. Follow the money y’all.
what we were saying was worrisome was an 11-story building on this block of Adelphi, nothing about the process. it doesn’t take a developer to know how out-of-scale that is.