REMARKS
962 Pacific Street Rezoning: Explanation of the Rezoning
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8 min
Richard Lobel explains the rezoning for 962 Pacific Street in detail before passing the microphone to Nicholas, who discusses the architectural aspects of the design.
Speaker 4
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So what is this application?
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This application is for rezoning.
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It would rezone the existing m 11 district for this site to a mixed use district of M14 R7A.
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The R7A residential equivalent here would produce a potential nine story building with approximately 153,000 square feet of floor area, 150 dwelling units, of which 38 to 45 would be permanently affordable roughly 85100 square feet of community facility space, 19,000 square feet of manufacturing space, and approximately 8000 square feet.
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Commercial space.
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Importantly, as will be noted further in the presentation, the production of this mixed use building fulfills many important goals set forth by the community board, as well as the EMA proposal in creating housing and creating affordability.
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But also importantly, in recognition of Community Board 8's long standing efforts in terms of MCRM uses in creating good job generating uses at the site in creating a early childhood community center, which is nothing that has been offered or provided before by any of the other rezellings.
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Within the R78 district.
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This project area is currently located between 2 R78 districts.
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So as the committee will see, there is a continuity of R Seven a here that exists on several blocks, on multiple blocks, and this is merely filling in a gap in that zoning.
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The next slide, please.
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So the next slide is the zoning map.
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Tough to see here, but and we're gonna see it as we go to the area map.
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But, basically, The R7a here is one lot amongst a number of lots, which is zone m11 amidst a c of R7a.
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But you can see from the circled area, again, residential zoning both on the north side of Pacific Street in this area.
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On the south side of Pacific Street in this area, as well as, of course, along Atlantic, and we can talk about each of those resignings in turn.
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The next slide I think is very telling with regards to this area and what we see.
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So you can see this entire block front, and then you're you're able to see the area and the dotted lines.
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And the dotted lines represent our site.
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And so to the west of our site, there's already a portion that's highlighted in red that has already zoned R 7a.
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It was rezoned R 7a in a priority zone in the Grand And Pacific streets rezoning.
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But here, this would allow us to provide for R Seven a zoning on this site.
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And I think the next slide, the area map really tells you the story extremely well because you can see to the east of class and what happened here, there's 26 lots on this frontage of Pacific Street between Grand Avenue and 200 feet east of classing.
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So in those in those in that over a block of lots of lots along Pacific Street, There's 26 lots.
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And of those, 25 are zone door 7 a, except for hours.
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So this is clearly not a case where we are introducing something which is not accepted, which hasn't been accepted by the area, by the community board.
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Indeed, what we're doing is providing something which allows for a context which respects the fact that the community board and the area and the council has already created r 7a on 25 out of 26 Blocks, but lots.
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Excuse me.
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The next slide demonstrates photographs of the area, again demonstrating that we are contextual within this surrounding area.
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And then I think that I would close my portion for now just with regards to some of the prior rezoning that were accomplished on the site and comparing our rezoning to their rezoning.
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So the next slide shows the other R7a rezoning in this area.
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How those were created in 2019, 1010 and 1050 Pacific Street were rezoned to R Seven a.
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In 2020, There was a rezoning on Granite Pacific, which rezoning the property adjacent to ours as well as a small portion of our property to R SevenA.
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And as well as the 1034 to 1042, which rezoned a portion of Pacific Street on that site to R SevenA.
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When we look at the other neighborhood rezoning's next page, please, we can see how our rezoning compares to those rezoning.
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All of those rezoning created R Seven a.
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Every one of them created they went to an M One One District, and they created R Seven a zoning.
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Again, 25 of 26 lots.
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So what's the difference?
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The basic f a r height bulk remains the same.
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But of all those units that were created and of all the uses of those buildings, m crown space was not required on any of those holy r 7 a zoning.
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Well, a small portion the 979 Pacific Street rezoning required 25 percent of ground floor space to be m Crown.
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That was in terms of the r 7 d portion as that was a split site.
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So on all the rezoning that were rezoned to R Seven a, none of those had required MC Crown uses, which is a vital goal of the community board here.
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With regards to family sized units, all of them allowed studio units.
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And with regards to any restrictions, none of them were restricted by a zone by a restricted declaration or by a community benefits agreement.
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What's the difference between those rezoning and our rezoning?
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Our rezoning provide for no studios.
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An important goal to an area which seeks larger units for families.
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Our rezoning importantly is going to be restricted by community benefits agreement, which is already been partially negotiated and would be entered into titles of the property.
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And I think most importantly, with regards to the m crown space, With regards to other sites, there was no required MCRM space.
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Here, we're creating 30,000 square feet.
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We're partnering with important community partners like Evergreen, who's going to administer our manufacturing space, create good high paying jobs for local workers in the area and really actually create something here which is going to be deeply utilized and beneficial to this local area in addition to which 10,000 square feet of this would end up being an early childhood community center.
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Nadine and Bill feel strongly about this.
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They have backgrounds in education.
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They are of the area.
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They're not they're not coming into the area.
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And it is a goal of theirs to allow for local families and mothers to be able to have their kids housed in this early childhood education center.
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They're not just creating problems here.
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They're creating solutions to longstanding problems in the community, which is why I think that you can feel that we are very passionate about this resuming going forward.
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And lastly, with regards to the DCP proposed rezoning and AMUP, we waited and we waited patiently to see what was gonna be the result of the EMA proposal.
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And so the next slide demonstrates what the comparison is to their buildings and our buildings.
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And what is the true comparison?
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They produce bigger buildings.
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Their buildings could exist up to a 5.5.0 f a r.
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Ours would be a 4.6.
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They would get more square footage 168,000 square feet.
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They would basically have a taller building by three stories amazingly.
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Most of the time, that we go to community boards and have these discussions.
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We talk about height as an issue.
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And right now, again, while it is influx, the proposed building height of these mixed use buildings would be a 125 feet.
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And so, you know, it's really our building would fit literally fit within that building that would be created by AMUP.
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With the exception being that we would have a greater number of affordable support of affordable units as well as residential units that are building versus the building that would be created under AMU.
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So again, we offer a very strong comparison to those properties.
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And with the primary difference being that we'll be able to proceed on a shovel ready site as soon as a rezoning is potentially approved because we're ready to go.
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The the last one the last page that I will discuss just has, again, the comparison to AMUP creates new affordable housing check.
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Creates new neighborhood services, including educational services check, creates new public open space, importantly, a garden to the rear of this property, will create available open space, a desired resource both by the community at large as well as the community board check and expands career pathways and job opportunities through the creation of commercial and manufacturing space, unique to the R SevenA rezoning's here.
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We are binding this property to provide MCRONiosis.
