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Voting on land use items
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Speaker Adrienne E. Adams presents several land use items for voting, including development projects and historic district designations across various council districts. These items cover a range of developments from healthcare facilities to affordable housing projects.
- Highlights the Memorial Sloan Kettering Pavilion development and associated community benefits
- Discusses several affordable housing projects in different districts
- Mentions the designation of the Willoughby Hart Historic District in Bedford Stuyvesant
Adrienne E. Adams
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First, we'll vote on the following land use items, memorial Sloan Kettering Pavilion.
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We'll facilitate the development of a new 31 story hospital building and council member Menon's district.
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The hospital will contain 28 operating rooms, 206 patient beds, and a two story enclosed patient bridge over East 67th Street connecting the new development with Memorial Hospital on the main block.
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The council also secured more than $10,000,000 in commitments Memorial Sloan Kettering to support construction mitigation efforts, community infrastructure investments and other improvements for the surrounding neighborhood.
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The project will deliver results for the Upper East Side community, New Yorkers, and people who come from around the country to seek world class health care and treatment.
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Malcolm Chivas, Harlem Plaza, an HPD application for a UDP approval and disposition of city owned property to facilitate the construction of 1 new mixed use building and council member Salam's district.
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It will include 2 nine story towers containing 108 affordable units through HPD's extremely low and low income affordability program or Ella, and a new community facility space for the pre existing vendors market.
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150 Mill Street rezoning will facilitate the development of a mixed use commercial at industrial building and council member of Vilas's district.
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2390 McDonald Avenue re rezoning will facilitate a new 8 Story mixed use building with 80 housing units, including approximately 80 24 Affordable units under NIH, retail and medical office space, and council member Yaeger's District.
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21st Street rezoning will facilitate the redevelopment of 2 vacant sites near Astoria Park, with new mixed use buildings, including 92 homeownership units, 28 of which will be affordable homeownership under NIH and Councilmember Keban's district.
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2 applications and Councilmember OSA's district marked a Scarby Boulevard, an HPD application for an article 11 taxis exemption to facilitate the construction of 2 10 story mixed use buildings consisting of 155 affordable units under HPD's LA program and retail space.
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The Willoughby Heart Historic District, a landmark's preservation commission application to create a new historic district in Bedford Stuyvesant.
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The designation includes two Blocks of the late 19th century row houses construction in the Neo Greg style, that over the years were home to a diversity of New Yorkers, including German and Irish immigrants of the mid 19th century, Russian Jewish immigrants of the 19 twenties and thirties, and the city's largest black community in the mid 20th century.
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Lastly, 2 sidewalk cafe applications.
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The council will approve Seis Casino's Restaurants application for a repicable consent to operate a sidewalk cafe and council member Salamanca's district.
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And the council will disapprove cozy corner bars application for a repicable consent to operate a sidewalk Cafe, and council member Holden's district.
