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Council Member Hudson expresses concerns about light industrial and art spaces
1:15:23
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Council Member Crystal Hudson expresses her concerns about ensuring light industrial and art spaces in the Atlantic Avenue Mixed Use Plan (AAMUP). She challenges the Department of City Planning's (DCP) approach and emphasizes the importance of restricting uses to achieve the desired outcomes.
- Hudson views the issue as a differing policy perspective between her and DCP.
- She argues that incentivizing without restricting uses may not guarantee the desired types of businesses.
- Hudson emphasizes that creating a zoning incentive for light industrial and art space is a top priority for Community Board 8.
- She states that this issue is a 'red line' for her in the negotiations.
Crystal Hudson
1:15:23
Yeah.
1:15:23
I mean, I see this sort of as a policy differing policy perspective, I suppose.
1:15:37
And the only way to ensure we get the types of businesses that we're looking for is to restrict use.
1:15:43
If you're simply incentivizing it, you and you're allowing a greater category of uses, then you could get those other categories of uses.
1:15:54
And I think, to your point, there are already strong, successful retail corridors in the area.
1:16:03
And what we're really looking for here is light industrial and art space specifically.
1:16:11
As you mentioned, it's a top priority of Community Board eight.
1:16:14
And creating a zoning incentive for such space is actually the first listed recommendation in their ULURP submission.
1:16:21
If it's out of scope to narrow the incentive you've proposed, what is the administration proposing as an alternative strategy?
1:16:28
Because as I said in my opening statement, this is a red line for me.