PRESENTATION
Benefits of rezoning versus as-of-right development
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The presenter compares the benefits of the proposed rezoning to what could be built as-of-right without rezoning approval. The rezoning offers significant advantages in terms of affordable housing, public improvements, and protections for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
- Rezoning provides 355 units of mixed-income housing, including 106 income-restricted units
- Includes binding mechanisms to protect the Brooklyn Botanic Garden from shadow impacts
- Developer-funded improvements for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Jackie Robinson playground
- Without rezoning, the site would likely be developed as market-rate luxury housing with no mandated affordability or public improvements
David Rosenberg
0:11:38
Looking at this project, with the rezoning, We get 355 units of mixed income housing, 106 of which would be income restricted pursuant to workforce housing in perpetuity, binding enforcement mechanisms to protect the Brooklyn botanic garden from shadow impacts, developer funded improvements for both the Brooklyn Botanic garden and for the Jackie Robinson playground Across the Street, and would be fully union.
0:12:04
As we've said, without this rezoning, the future of this much is like what happened to the site immediately adjacent to this, is market rate, luxury housing, likely condos without any mandated affordability, without any developer funded public improvements, without any guaranteed union jobs, and no protections for the Brooklyn Botanic garden from new shadows.
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Next slide, please.
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During a robust public review process, we introduced a novel text amendment that would create unprecedented protection for the Brooklyn Botanic garden through fully enforceable height restrictions.
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We further committed to mitigation measures that protect neighboring buildings from construction impacts, committed more than a $1,000,000 worth of capital improvements to the Jackie Robinson playground, and agreed to provide $500,000 to the Brooklyn Potato Garden to develop artificial lighting systems and other infrastructure improvements at the direction of the garden's expert staff.
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Each of these commitments today are recorded against these properties and are fully binding and enforceable against the developer, subject only to the city council's final approval of this resounding.
