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Proposed zoning changes and special district for AAMUP
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Jonah Rogoff details the proposed zoning changes and the creation of a special district for the AAMUP area. He explains the various zoning map amendments, text amendments, and specific regulations designed to achieve the plan's goals.
- Zoning map changes are grouped into five areas, with the tallest and densest buildings concentrated along Atlantic Avenue
- A special district is proposed to ensure lively streetscapes and support a mix of uses
- The plan includes urban design measures such as setback requirements and facade articulation
- A new innovative tool is proposed to incentivize job space in mixed-use buildings
- The proposal includes measures to safely mix light industrial and residential uses
Jonah Rogoff
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So first or in summary we're proposing zoning map changes.
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A special district to go beyond what the underlying zoning can achieve on its own.
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Site specific opportunities on city or nonprofit owned sites and then other opportunities apart from zoning in coordination with agency partners.
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Specifically the land use actions include a zoning map amendment, zoning text amendment, an urban development action area project known as UDAP, and then acquisition and dispositions of city owned land which we'll get into more detail in a moment.
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So starting first with the zoning map changes.
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These changes as shown above are generally grouped into five areas.
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First the Atlantic Avenue corridor shown in red.
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The North South Avenues shown in a darker shade of orange.
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The mid block sub areas which are shown in a lighter orange.
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Together these comprise the primary area.
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And then in yellow are a few residential areas and in purple is the Bedford Atlantic Armory which are targeted to specific sites.
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Before I discuss the text amendment I just want to note, actually if you can go back to the previous slide for a moment I apologize.
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We proposed to concentrate the tallest and most dense buildings along Atlantic Avenue being a 120 foot wide corridor while stepping down in height and FAR to the south in the R7D and R6A areas.
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And then in two non contiguous areas we proposed zoning map changes to increase opportunities for housing and other community facilities on city owned lots.
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So now I'll discuss the zoning text amendments.
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The special district includes rules to ensure a lively streetscape along Atlantic Avenue and North South corridors, support a mix of uses with a strong mid block incentive for job space, and map MIH wherever residential capacity is being increased.
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So along Atlantic Avenue we're excited to share that the tax amendment includes a number of urban design measures including the setback buildings to effectively create a wider sidewalk, mandate facade articulation for larger buildings and a public space bonus which would be the first time we're applying outside of Central Brooklyn.
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As we mentioned earlier promoting jobs and housing has been a long standing goal stemming from the mCrown planning process led by the community board which preceded AIM UP.
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Before we highlight mixed use strategies from our special district, we wanted to reiterate that the 2018 framework shown in the upper right included non residential only areas to balance areas focused on jobs with areas focused on housing.
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During the 2023 outreach process we heard strong pushback about keeping these areas non residential only and revised the framework which led to treating both mid block geographies similarly and under a new mixed use approach.
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So first to achieve a mix of uses we proposed to require non residential ground floors along Atlantic Avenue and other corridors running north to south.
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And then in the mid block or M1 2A paired areas with R6A, we're proposing a new innovative tool to incentivize 1.1 FAR or one to two floors of space for jobs in mixed use buildings.
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Together with the ground floor requirement on corridors, we believe we're going above and beyond to either require or incentivize a mix of uses across the entire area which we estimate will produce 2,800 new jobs.
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So lastly we're taking an extra step to promote a mix of uses by increasing opportunities to safely mix light industrial and residential in the same building or side by side which zoning currently does not permit.
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Under the proposal buildings seeking to mix these uses can apply for certification requiring physical design controls to ensure air quality, noise, hazardous materials and other environmental measures are met.
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And now I'll pass it over to Surit to discuss the public sites and affordability goals.