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Overview of AAMUP and its extensive development process
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Alex Sommer provides an overview of the Atlantic Avenue Mixed Use Plan (AAMUP), highlighting its decade-long planning process and extensive community engagement. He outlines the plan's key goals and potential impacts on housing and job creation in the area.
- AAMUP aims to create 4,600 new homes, including 1,400 affordable units
- The plan envisions space for 2,800 new jobs across various sectors
- The presentation emphasizes the collaborative nature of the planning process, involving residents, business owners, and multiple city agencies
Alex Sommer
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Understood.
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Thank you.
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I want to first thank both council members Crystal Hudson and Chiyose for their leadership during the AIM UP engagement process, their collaboration with residents, small business owners, and city agencies, and their ongoing advocacy on behalf of their communities.
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So thank you.
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So next slide please.
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This AIM UP proposal has come together over more than a decade of planning.
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Hundreds of hours of outreach and input from local residents, business owners, advocates, and elected officials, and supported by a cadre of civil servants across multiple public agencies.
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I personally believe AIM UP demonstrates our continued commitment to thoughtful neighborhood based planning through the coordination of local land use changes, holistic public realm improvements, and targeted infrastructure investments.
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Next slide please.
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The AIM UP study area is well served by public transit with easy access to job centers like Downtown Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan and is surrounded by thriving residential neighborhoods with active commercial corridors.
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Today, however, the area is mapped with extremely outdated zoning which prohibits new housing and limits the growth of new modern businesses.
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In response to community advocacy and calls for change, Aim Up aims to create 4,600 new homes including over 1,400 homes which would be rent regulated and income restricted, and more than 800,000 square feet of new commercial, community facility, and industrial uses, creating space for 2,800 new jobs.
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Next slide.
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To facilitate the AIM UP vision, the department is proposing a set of zoning map amendments to allow new housing and more jobs, zoning text amendments to make sure new buildings include permanent affordable housing, and establish a new special district that creates new mixed use zoning tools and regulations to improve the streetscape, urban design, and create new public open spaces.
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In addition, HPD and DCAS are co applicants for site specific proposals which need UDAP designations, as well as acquisition and disposition actions, all to facilitate new affordable housing developments throughout the area.
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And though of course they're not subject to the currently proposed zoning actions, we are of course coordinating on infrastructure and neighborhood capital planning with our sister agencies to meet the goals outlined during the extensive public engagement process.
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Next slide please.
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So to orient everyone not familiar with the area, AIM UP covers approximately 21 city blocks along Atlantic Avenue in Central Brooklyn.
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Split roughly between Crown Heights Prospect Heights in Community District 8, and Bedford Stuyvesant in Community District 3.
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Atlantic Terminal Barclays Center in Downtown Brooklyn are about three to four blocks to the West.
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Prospect Park and Eastern Parkway are about seven to eight blocks to the South, And the Nostrand Avenue LIRR station and Bed Stuy's Restoration Plaza are just to the East.
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Next slide please.