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Q&A on constraints and challenges in public site development
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Council Member Hudson inquires about broader constraints and challenges in developing public sites for affordable housing. Sarit Platkin from HPD responds with insights on the complexities involved.
- Hudson notes the parking lot adjacent to the 510 Claremont Avenue school, suggesting it as a potential building site to avoid impacting the school facility.
- She asks about constraints on public sites beyond the specific issues with the school population at 510 Claremont Avenue.
- Platkin reiterates that the main constraints are related to the scale of the project, the existing populations, and site constraints, emphasizing that it would be a long-term process to assess relocation of existing uses.
Crystal Hudson
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Thank you.
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And I do want to also note there's a parking lot adjacent to the school.
0:51:50
So hopefully you're also exploring opportunities to potentially build maybe just on the parking lot and not also on the school facility should that be of particular concern.
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Can you share some of the restraints on these public sites that have so far made it difficult to make the commitments?
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Is there anything outside of this location, number one?
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And then number two, outside of the specific constraints regarding this sensitive school population, are there other constraints that have made it difficult to make the commitments to building on these sites?
Sarit Platkin
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Yeah, I think we've discussed the constraints.
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I think the constraints that were just mentioned around the populations, around the site constraints, just you know the large scale here that you know this is like essentially would be a long term process to assess where these uses would go and how.
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I think that's really the primary constraint.
Crystal Hudson
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Thank you.
0:52:53
And then community board eight asked for an MIH option that would provide more and deeper affordable housing than the current MIH options.