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Land use items: Atlantic Avenue Mixed Use Plan and other rezoning projects
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Council Member Adams presents several land use items for voting, with a focus on the Atlantic Avenue Mixed Use Plan. She highlights the plan's potential impact on housing and community investments in Brooklyn.
- The Atlantic Avenue Mixed Use Plan will deliver 4,600 new housing units, with 1,900 being permanently affordable.
- The project includes over $215 million in community investments and infrastructure improvements.
- Adams emphasizes the council's leadership in addressing the city's housing crisis, approving plans for 120,000 housing units.
- Additional rezoning projects in Coney Island Avenue and Maspeth Avenue are also mentioned.
Adrienne E. Adams
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Now let's move on to our stated agenda.
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First, we'll vote on the following land use items.
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Atlantic Avenue mixed use plan, a neighborhood plan and council members Hudson and Osage Districts that will deliver 4,600 new units of housing, approximately 1,900 of which will be permanently affordable.
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This will single handedly produce more affordable housing in that area than has been constructed over the entire past decade.
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The project also includes over $215,000,000 in newly committed funding for community investments and infrastructure.
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Through the negotiation process, the council secured investments for increased services in Central Brooklyn, including for tenant and homeowner protections, streets and public realm improvements to improve traffic and quality of life, renovations of six neighborhood parks and playgrounds, improvements to local MTA subway stations, modernized infrastructure, and economic development opportunities.
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The council is modifying the applications to require MIH option one.
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The council's partnership with the Department of City Planning and Community Stakeholders including Brooklyn Community Boards three and eight represents a model of community planning and collaboration that can advance housing solutions and community investments that benefit all New Yorkers.
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This council has led on confronting the city's housing crisis, approving citywide zoning reforms, neighborhood rezonings, and individual land use applications that constitute 120,000 units of housing.
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You all can give yourselves a round of applause for that, that's a lot.
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The Atlantic Avenue mixed use plan is the second neighborhood rezoning this council will vote on.
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Combined with the Bronx Metro North stations rezoning, they will produce over 11,000 housing units, and there are more neighborhood rezonings in the pipeline.
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We know New Yorkers urgently need more affordable homes to stay in our city, and under the leadership of this council we are delivering for our communities.
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I'd like to thank our planning and land use teams, Paris Strauder, Brian Paul, Anne McCoy, William Vidal, and Tim Anderson for their years of engagement alongside council members Hudson and Osei to help make this effort such a success.
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2510 Coney Island Avenue rezoning, a private application to facilitate a new four story mixed use development with ground floor commercial space in approximately 28 housing units, eight of which will be affordable under MIH option two in council member Ina Vernikov's district.
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19 Maspeth Avenue rezoning, a private application to facilitate the development of a new six story mixed use building with ground floor commercial space and 15 residential units, four to five of which will be affordable under MIH and council member Jennifer Gutierrez's district.