Brooklyn Pols Lander, Levin Want to Reform Landmark Process
Brooklyn City Council members Brad Lander and Stephen Levin have joined with the Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and one other City Council member in sponsoring a bill that would speed the landmark review process. The process would move online with a public database showing all actions taken by the Landmark Preservation Commission and the…
Brooklyn City Council members Brad Lander and Stephen Levin have joined with the Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and one other City Council member in sponsoring a bill that would speed the landmark review process. The process would move online with a public database showing all actions taken by the Landmark Preservation Commission and the ability to submit applications for landmarks online, according to a story in The Real Deal.
The bill would also require the LPC to respond more quickly, with a 90-day limit for feedback on applications for individual landmarks and 180 days for proposed historic districts. “Unresolved” cases would have to be jettisoned after five years.
The Real Deal noted the proposal is unlikely to meet favor with developers. We think preservationists may take issue with it too. We support the move online, which can only help ease the process and make it more transparent.
As for the time limits, we’re not sure they are feasible without a bigger staff for the LPC. The five-year limit, for its part, seems like another approach to “dumping” the backlog — a move the LPC tried late last year but which proved highly unpopular.
In any case, we’ve noticed Landmarks moving quickly through applications for Bushwick, Prospect Lefferts Gardens and Crown Heights lately — since its new head was appointed by de Blasio. (Above, PLG’s recently landmarked Chester Court.) Three proposed landmark districts in Bed Stuy — where development has exploded in the last few months — could be next.
Manhattan Beep Unveils Plan to Speed up Landmarks Process [TRD]
LPC will do nothing about Bed Stuy or anywhere else until people start screaming bloody murder. There is an intentional slowdown of designations that will soon grind to a halt. If you want your district calendared and designated you need to organize and protest hard!!!!!
They are looking to reform the wrong city agency.
LPC is thousands of times more responsive to applicants that is the Department of Buildings.
It is easier to get a roof-top addition approved by LPC then it is to get a simple alteration permit through the DOB.
they try Randolph but in 1971 Stuyvesant Heights was landmarked and in 1975,85 and 95 the neighborhood was still the same.
there is no sign that they could be next
there is no information that cate is basing it on
Bounded by the north Monroe east Malcolm X, west Throop Ave and the south Hancock and parts of Halsey.
Bedford Stuyvesant CB3 landmarks committee meets on Monday at 6:30 at the CB3 board office at Restoration
What’s the borders for Stuyvesant North District?
And Stuyvesant West :https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?ie=UTF&msa=0&mid=z_UIrd6cepyg.kzFyouoXNvrE
The Bedford District is calendared to be landmarked. I am also in Stuyvesant North District which will be one of the largest. Unfortunately I really do not see Stuyvesant North being landmarked anytime soon. We have to get more organized like Stuyvesant East which has been working very hard to tell the city that they want next. Stuyvesant North needs a meeting to talk strategy. Most people I talk to in the North want landmarking but the city dose no know about it like Bedford and the East.