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LICH Condo Development To Be Discussed at Public Meeting

A public meeting will address the controversial Long Island College Hospital redevelopment as the community continues to debate the size and scope of the plan.

The proposed towers at the LICH site will be discussed at the Cobble Hill Association's fall general meeting at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 18 at P.S. 29, located at 425 Henry St.

Other neighborhood matters are also on the agenda for the meeting, a representative from the association said.

"At our annual meeting, the lead topic will be the current situation relating to the proposed redevelopment of the LICH site," CHA President Laurel Burr and First Vice President Buzz Doherty said in a statement Friday sent to DNAinfo New York.

"[T]he CHA will report to the meeting the results of numerous block meetings held recently to understand whether the community will support the Fortis ULURP [rezoning] process."

Developer Fortis Property Group has two proposals for multi-story towers at the site. The first, which Fortis has openly advocated for, involves a property rezoning and would include affordable housing, a new school and 900,000 square-feet of market-rate units. This proposal requires approval from the City Council.

The second proposal, which can be built without any special permission, includes neither afforable housing nor a new school but Fortis can only build roughly 528,000 square-feet of market-rate condos.

The community meeting comes on the heels of smaller, private meetings that have been taking place with Councilman Brad Lander, developer Fortis Property Group, members of the Cobble Hill Association and local stakeholders.

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