TESTIMONY
Lo van der Volk, President of Carnegie Hill Neighbors, on Proposed Development's Violation of Community Planning Principles
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Lo van der Volk discusses the proposed development's disregard for New York City's traditional city planning principles and its impact on the community.
- Van der Volk represents Carnegie Hill Neighbors and addresses a development arising from the conversion of the Rupert brewery.
- Raises concerns about the violation of traditional planning principles: low buildings on side streets and tall buildings on avenues.
- The proposed development seeks a zoning change that would allow an unusually tall building, potentially the tallest in a 10-block radius, without offering public open space.
- Contrasts the proposed development with a 2016 example that managed to incorporate public open space alongside a tall structure.
Lo van der Volk
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Thank you.
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Join the analyst.
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Am I on?
Kevin C. Riley
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Yes.
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You're on.
Lo van der Volk
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Okay.
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Thank you.
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My name is Aloe Vanderhall, and I am president and speaking on behalf of Carnegie Hill Neighbors.
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The the block front in question faces a 4 block development that arose out of the conversion of the Rupert brewery into residential buildings.
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And while there are tall buildings in that in that four block area, they are interspersed with a lot of open space, which was the intent.
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So that that is one of the frameworks.
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The other concerns are threefold, which is that the massing in New York City has long observed low buildings in the side streets and tall buildings on the avenues.
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And that principle is being violated here, and grossly so.
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Also, the project seeks not just a zone zoning change from M 14, but it moves up the ladder to art.
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Surpassing R8b, R8, R9, and landing at R10 with a 20% bonus.
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It it then masses all the bulk it has in a way to keep the buildings for half its zoning a lot low, but bunches the massing so that we get in the eastern half, a building that is 484 feet tall.
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Probably one probably the tallest in in a 10 block radius.
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Call us building and a 10 block radius.
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Further, it provides no usable public open space, as mentioned, and and was done And this is contrary to a recent example in 2016 at 205 East 90th.
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Second Street, where a equally tall building was added along near the area.
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Has expired.
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Thank you.
Lo van der Volk
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And with an open space.
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Thank you.
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