PRESENTATION
Proposal 3: Expand opportunities for small-scale clean production
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Proposal 3 would allow small-scale, clean manufacturing businesses to locate in empty storefronts or offices in commercial districts, subject to strict environmental standards. This provides flexibility for appropriate modern manufacturing uses outside of industrial zones.
"... what we want to do is allow small scale production businesses that are quiet and clean like a pottery studio, bakery, coffee roaster, jewelry maker, apparel designer, 3D printer, things like that to locate an empty storefronts or offices ..."
Dan Garodnick
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Next slide.
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Proposal 3.
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This is a proposal to expand opportunities for small scale, clean production.
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I will note, council members, we have an extra one page document laying out a little bit more detail this proposal was one that was confusing at the community board level.
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So we prepared a little more more extra information about environmental issues on this proposal here for you.
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But what we want to do is allow small scale production businesses that are quiet and clean like a pottery studio, bakery, coffee roaster, jewelry maker, apparel designer, 3 d printer, things like that to locate an empty storefronts or offices.
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No reference to 3 d printing in the 161 zoning resolution, you will not be surprised to know we need to be able to accommodate modern uses and to accommodate them in commercial at places where it is totally appropriate.
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We would allow here at the ground floor up to 5000 square feet in a C1, C2, and up to 10000 square feet in a C4 TO C7 District.
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These all would be subject to the environmental standards that have been around for decades in our MX district.
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So we have this sort of thing in our MX districts today, ABC and right to know standards M 1 performance standards, plus additional noise, vibration, and venting requirements when locating above the ground floor in a building that has any residential.
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I will note that this is an important way for us to expand opportunity for light manufacturing businesses that don't have environmental impact, it also lightens the burden on our manufacturing districts.
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It allows for more flexibility and more opportunity for manufacturing districts to have what we perceive as core manufacturing, which need to be physically separated from other things.
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Okay.
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Let me give you an illustration on the next slide here.
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This is a bakery owner who operates in a neighborhood commercial storefront.
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As the business has grown, it's doing more distribution to the store, to other stores, This owner here would like to expand her business to the adjacent vacant storefront.
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So bakery is a vacant storefront next door.
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But our rules today say if you're a bakery, once you hit 750 square feet, if you expand beyond 750 feet, you become a food manufacturer, and you have to locate in a manufacturing district.
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Okay?
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So that's just the an example.
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Bakery wants to expand past 750 square feet you're a food manufacturer, you're no longer allowed to be in this context.