QUESTION
What is the new process for establishing small corner stores in NYC under the proposed zoning changes?
2:15:07
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The Department of City Planning proposes a new process for setting up small corner stores that involves environmental review and approvals from the community board, borough president, and City Planning Commission.
- Current zoning lacks a pathway for single commercial store developments
- New process would allow corner stores within 100 feet of a corner if various criteria are met
- Goal is to provide a defined process where none exists today, not make corner stores as-of-right
- Stores must serve surrounding residential area, generate minimum traffic, and not change neighborhood character
Linda Lee
2:15:07
Corner stores and residential areas.
2:15:09
I guess this is my question.
2:15:10
So so just to clarify, would this completely eliminate the alert process for these corner lots and make it as of right?
Dan Garodnick
2:15:17
It would not it would not make it as of right.
2:15:22
What it would do would would be to create a process for a small corner store, once somebody has done if somebody wants to propose this for a corner store within a 100 feet of the corner, If they've gone through their environmental review, they've gone through community board, borough president, and have past a vote, majority vote of the city planning commission, that would be the process that we would be defining for that.
2:15:48
There is no process that exists today to set up a corner store in in zoning today other than, say, a neighborhood wide rezoning with commercial overlays across an entire commercial district.
2:16:01
But for a single commercial store, such a thing were desirable in a particular neighborhood, That is something there is no pathway for in zoning today.
Linda Lee
2:16:10
Okay.
2:16:10
So the 3 men the
Christopher Leon Johnson/Shaun Abreu
2:16:12
3 men
Linda Lee
2:16:12
the 3 men serving the surrounding residential area generate minimum traffic congestion.
2:16:16
And won't change character in the neighborhood.
2:16:17
Those are the guidelines that you're going by.
Dan Garodnick
2:16:19
Yes.
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