Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Rezoning of Brooklyn’s Broadway Triangle Advances
The contested plan to rezone the 31-acre sliver of Brooklyn known as the Broadway Triangle completed another station of the Ulurp cross this morning when the City Council’s Land Use Committee voted to modify the plan and send it on to the Department of City Planning.
The Land Use Committee’s 12-to-6 vote followed a 3-to-0 vote earlier Monday by its Subcommittee on Planning, Dispositions and Concessions. The planning department now has 15 days to certify the plan and send it back to the Council.
The modifications approved Monday are minor and call for the city to give a preference for open public space in proposals for city-owned lots in the southern part of the Triangle, said Councilman Daniel R. Garodnick of Manhattan, chairman of the subcommittee.
The rezoning plan — part of the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, known as Ulurp — would allow up to 1,851 units of housing to be built in the Triangle, a partly city-owned area in a long-neglected corner of the borough where Williamsburg, Bedford-Stuyvesant and Bushwick meet that is now zoned for industrial use. If all 1,851 units were built, 844 of them would have to be moderately priced; critics of the plan say it is likely to have far fewer such apartments.
The plan has also been criticized for the city’s decision to grant early rights to develop city-owned sites in the Triangle to two nonprofit groups, the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg, which represents part of the fast-growing Hasidic population, and the Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council, a group founded by Assemblyman Vito J. Lopez, who is also the Brooklyn Democratic chairman, without competitive bids.
In another attack on the plan, a lawsuit filed in September charges that it discriminates in favor of Hasidic Jews by including too many three- and four-bedroom apartments. Hasidic families tend to have large numbers of children.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/rezoning-of-brooklyns-broadway-triangle-advances/
The Land Use Committee’s 12-to-6 vote followed a 3-to-0 vote earlier Monday by its Subcommittee on Planning, Dispositions and Concessions. The planning department now has 15 days to certify the plan and send it back to the Council.
The modifications approved Monday are minor and call for the city to give a preference for open public space in proposals for city-owned lots in the southern part of the Triangle, said Councilman Daniel R. Garodnick of Manhattan, chairman of the subcommittee.
The rezoning plan — part of the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, known as Ulurp — would allow up to 1,851 units of housing to be built in the Triangle, a partly city-owned area in a long-neglected corner of the borough where Williamsburg, Bedford-Stuyvesant and Bushwick meet that is now zoned for industrial use. If all 1,851 units were built, 844 of them would have to be moderately priced; critics of the plan say it is likely to have far fewer such apartments.
The plan has also been criticized for the city’s decision to grant early rights to develop city-owned sites in the Triangle to two nonprofit groups, the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg, which represents part of the fast-growing Hasidic population, and the Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council, a group founded by Assemblyman Vito J. Lopez, who is also the Brooklyn Democratic chairman, without competitive bids.
In another attack on the plan, a lawsuit filed in September charges that it discriminates in favor of Hasidic Jews by including too many three- and four-bedroom apartments. Hasidic families tend to have large numbers of children.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/rezoning-of-brooklyns-broadway-triangle-advances/
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