REMARKS
Council Member Hanks opens the Subcommittee on Landmarks meeting and introduces agenda items
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Council Member Kamillah Hanks, chair of the Subcommittee on Landmarks, Public Sightings and Dispositions, opens the meeting and provides an overview of the agenda items and procedures for public testimony. She introduces four main items for discussion: the Malcolm Shabazz Harlem Plaza development, and landmark designations for Temple Court Atrium, Heckscher Building, and Frederick Douglass Memorial Park.
- Explains the hybrid format of the meeting and how to register for remote testimony
- Outlines rules for decorum and submission of written testimony
- Introduces council members present and acknowledges late arrival of Council Member Marte
Kamillah Hanks
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Good morning, everyone.
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Welcome to the meeting of sub committee on Landmark's public sightings and dispositions.
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I am council member Camilla Hanks, and I am chair of the sub committee.
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Today, I am joined by my colleague, council member, Salam, And before we begin today's agenda, I will remind everyone that this meeting is being held in a hybrid format for members of the public wish to testify remotely, we ask that you first register online, and you may do so now by visiting www.council.nyc.gov forward slash land use to sign up, and then sign into the Zoom and remain signed on until you have testified.
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For anyone with us today in person who wish to testify, you have not already done so, please see one of our sergeant in arms to fill out a speaker's card, and we will call your name at the appropriate time.
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For anyone wishing to submit written testimony on the items being heard today, We ask that you please send it via email to land use testimony at counsel.nyc.gov.
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Include the land use number and or the project name in the subject line of your email, video and audio testimony will not be accepted.
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I'll remind members of the public that this is a government proceeding and that decorum shall be observed at all times.
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As such, members of the public shall remain silent unless and until called to testify.
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The witness table is reserved for people who wish to testify no video recording or photography is allowed from the witness table.
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Further, members of the public may not present audio or video recordings as testimony but may submit transcripts of such recordings to the sergeant for inclusion on the hearing record.
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On today's agenda, we have Malcolm Shabaz Harlem Plaza, a preconceived application by the New York City Department of Housing Preservation And Development in support of a development in council member salam's district in Manhattan.
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Ellis number 129, the landmark's preservation, commissions proposed designation of the Temple Court.
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Now Beekman Hotel Atrium And Council Member, Marte's district in Manhattan, as a historic landmark.
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Land use number 108 in Landmark's preservation, commissions proposed designation of the Berkshire building, now the crown building, and council member powers district in Manhattan and historic landmark.
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And land use 131, the Landmark's preservation Commission's proposed designation of Frederick Douglass Memorial Park, and council member Cause district in Staten Island as a historic landmark.
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Now I will open the public hearing for a pre considered land used item for an application by the New York City Department of Preservation And Development Seeking designation of an urban development action area, approval of an urban development action area project, and the disposition of several city owned lots in Central Harlem known as the Malcolm Chappas Harlem Plaza.
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Approval of the proposed actions will facilitate the construction of 2 new nine story mixed use towers containing affordable housing units through HPD extremely low and low income affordability program, Ella, and the new community facility space intended for the existing incubator African market excuse me, African vendors market.
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Appearing today on this proposal is Melissa Anton for HPD, Peter, excuse me, Peter Posoda from Posoda Development, Tyre Shahid Mahat, Malcolm Shabaaz Development Corporation.
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And is that it?
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Yes.
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Those who wish to testify remotely, again, must register online by visiting the council's website at council dotnyc.gov/land use.
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Council, would you please administer the affirmation?
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Before you begin, I just wanted to recognize council member, Marte, has joined us as well.
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Thank you.
