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Q&A on additional public sites for affordable housing development
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Council Member Hudson presses for information on additional city-owned sites that have not yet been committed to for affordable housing development. Sarit Platkin from HPD responds with details on the 510 Claremont Avenue site.
- Platkin mentions that 510 Claremont Avenue was included in the environmental impact statement to analyze feasibility for future redevelopment.
- She notes that the site is large and involves a sensitive population (associated with New York City Public Schools), making planning more complex.
- HPD is working with New York City Public Schools and SCA to assess the feasibility of relocation and engage in public outreach.
Crystal Hudson
0:47:41
Let me just rephrase.
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Those are all sites that you're already working on that you've mentioned in your testimony.
0:47:48
I'm asking about additional sites that have been identified as city owned property that have not yet been committed to by the administration.
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Can you share details on where things are with those?
Sarit Platkin
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Absolutely.
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Thank you.
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So I think you mentioned 510 Claremont before, happy to discuss that.
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So you know this is a site that of course the council, you and council member Osei have expressed you know strong interest in seeing redeveloped.
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In response to that request we included that site in the environmental impact statement to analyze feasibility which would allow us to streamline that site for future redevelopment.
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So we've been you know proactively taking those steps.
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It's not being rezoned but that does clear the way for potential future redevelopment.
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I think in addition to that would you know note that we are working with New York City Public Schools.
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This is you know a large site.
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It also has a sensitive population.
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Given those factors it's much more challenging and more complex to plan for redevelopment than some of the other sites that we mentioned before.
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That means that it's taking kind of a more deliberate approach but we are taking those steps, working with New York City Public Schools to you know assess the feasibility of relocation here as well as with SCA.
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So we're assessing the feasibility of relocation, that's kind of like the primary focus right now and then also look forward to the engagement that I know you all have been doing with New York City public schools and you know the public outreach that's planned to really make sure that we are sharing a vision with public stakeholders, local communities and understand how local residents think that this might affect them as well.