REMARKS
2226 Third Avenue Rezoning: Presentation
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3 min
Richard Bass delivers a short presentation on the 2226 Third Avenue Rezoning.
In this case, the application is different because the building already exists. The applicant is seeking to permit life science use in the entirety of the building.
Speaker 3
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I'm Richard Bass.
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I'm with the law firm of Ackerman LLP.
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Thank you for this opportunity to present to the committee.
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This application is a little different.
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As you can see from the slides, the image on the left is the actual building.
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We've constructed the building pursuant to the existing zoning.
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The changes to the zoning resolution that we're seeking is to permit life science use in the entirety of the building.
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Can we go to the next slide?
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This is a hard to see summary of of the proposal, but let me just verbally summarize it.
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To facilitate life science use at this site, we have to make certain amendments to the special district regulations.
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The first one is to allow 7.2 f a r as a right for commercial use.
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That would include a use group 9 like science use.
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Also, to do life science use that has a higher number of required loading births, So we have to then create a mechanism to get relief from the loading birth requirement.
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And then we are seeking relief from the loading birth requirement.
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And the last change is to since this lot is split between r 7bandthec46, We need to mend the zoning map and the special district map to incorporate the western 25 feet.
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So As you can see from the middle slide, that little bump out in the middle is our extension.
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And because we're as right, you could do residential.
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We also have to amend the NIH exhibit appendix F.
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Even though we're not doing affordable housing, we still have to amend it.
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So the the changes are permitting greater commercial use, creating a relief mechanism from the loading birth, seeking that relief and expanding the district by 25 feet to the west.
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In discussions with the community board, First of all, we've had long discussions with the community board from the onset of this project, as well as with the council member.
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We made a commitment to the community board that we would use 32 BJ as our union workers.
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The community board raised concerns that we included 3 tax slots that we don't control.
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They would seek the council to reduce the the action to only include our sites.
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We're agnostic on that request.
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The same thing, there was a to allow greater height and greater density.
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We don't need either of those 2 things.
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We agreed with the community board.
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Again, we'd defer to the council if you would like to restrict the amendment to only our site and to the existing zoning.
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That's it.
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Oh.
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Short and sweet.
Speaker 1
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Oh, thank you.
Speaker 3
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It's easy when you built the building.
Speaker 1
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Well, I appreciate that.
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Thank you so much.
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So just have a few questions for you.
Speaker 3
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Yes, sir.
