TESTIMONY
Jesse Solomon, Executive Director of Southwest Brooklyn Industrial Development Corporation, on Modifications to New Manufacturing District Text Amendments
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Jesse Solomon presents recommendations for modifying the new manufacturing district text amendments to better support industrial growth in Southwest Brooklyn.
- Supports the amendments for increasing densities and building flexibility to boost local economies
- Calls for capping non-industrial uses in the core district to 10,000 square feet
- Proposes increasing the M2A industrial bonus in the transition district to 25% of total FAR
- Advocates adding an incentive structure to the growth district to encourage industrial uses
Jesse Solomon
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Hi.
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Good afternoon, everyone.
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My name is Jesse Solomon.
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I'm the Executive Director of Southwest Brooklyn Industrial Development Corporation.
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Our mission is to create equal opportunity for people, businesses, and communities in Southwest Brooklyn, which includes Sunset Park, Redhook, and Gualnis.
4:11:20
We're also a member of the Industrial Jobs Coalition my partners here today, so you will hear apologies for the repetition.
4:11:26
You'll hear a lot of the same testimony and recommendations.
4:11:29
So as my colleagues have shared, we are Really glad to see that the mayor's office and DCP have have limited this have paid so much attention to manufacturing and industrial uses We're largely very supportive of the new manufacturing district text amendments, and we think it's a forward looking text amendment.
4:11:49
Increasing densities and allowing for more flexibility in building layout and bulk will help grow local economies and commercial corridors.
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And as Leah said, importantly, this proposal has continued the city's commitment to put no residential uses within industrial business zones.
4:12:05
However, again, we believe that there should be key modifications to this proposal.
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The first, as you for my colleagues is that we'd like for the core district to limit non industrial uses to 10,000 square feet.
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The second is about the transition district, we propose an increase of the M2A industrial bonus to 25% of total FAR more than currently proposed.
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Our recommendation is based on recent developments in Guyana's.
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During the recent neighborhood rezoning there, DCP gave Guyana's developers a bonus of point 3 f a r for industrial space in the rezoned area, but we have yet to see any developers take advantage of this small bonus.
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The limited size of the bonus may have impacted those decisions.
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Finally, as my colleagues have also tested, we do have concerns about the growth district because there is no current incentive bonus structure for industrial uses and because because this is a new district meant for manufacturing, we would like to see an incentive structure built into the growth as well.
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Thank you.
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