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Council Member Hanks opens Subcommittee meeting and provides instructions
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Council Member Kamillah Hanks opens the meeting of the Subcommittee on Landmarks, Public Sightings, and Dispositions, providing an overview of the agenda and instructions for public participation in the hybrid-format meeting. She outlines the procedures for both remote and in-person testimony, as well as for submitting written testimony.
- The meeting will include one hearing followed by votes on four projects.
- Instructions are given for registering to testify remotely via Zoom and for in-person testimony.
- Hanks opens the public hearing for the preconsidered land use for Brook 156, an application to amend a previously approved project summary.
Kamillah Hanks
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Good morning, everyone.
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Welcome to the meeting of the subcommittee on landmarks, public sightings, dispositions.
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I am council member Camilla Hanks, I am the chair of the subcommittee.
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Today, I am joined by my colleague, council member Marte.
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Today, we'll be holding one hearing followed by votes on four projects.
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Before we begin with today's agenda, I will remind everyone that this is this meeting is being held in a hybrid format.
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For members of the public who wish to testify remotely, we ask that you first register online, and you may do so now by visiting ww.council.nyc.gov/landuse to sign up and then sign into the Zoom and remain signed in until you have testified.
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For anyone with us today in person wishing to testify, if you have not already done so, please see one of our sergeants to fill out a speaker 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 landusetestimony@council.nyc.gov.
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Include the land use number and or the project name in the subject line of your email.
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Video and audio testimony will not be accepted.
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I will remind members of the public that this is a government proceeding and that decormat shall be observed at all times.
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And 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.
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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 including in the hearing record.
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I will now open the public hearing up for preconsidered land use for Brook 156, an application by the New York City Housing Preservation and Development for an amendment to a previously approved project summary in connection with a previous approved council resolution from 2019.
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The amendment would update the project summary to allow for commercial use in addition to the previously, approved community facility use at the Ground Floor.
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The project is in Chair Salamanca's district in The Bronx.