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Councilmember Levin will seek tweaks to 80 Flatbush development plan
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The City Councilmember whose opinion about the proposed 80 Flatbush development matters most is not ready to approve the project in its current form.
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Levin, who is a member of the subcommittee, said during the hearing that the 80 Flatbush proposal will be his “top priority” in the coming weeks.
After the hearing, he told the Eagle he'll hold an intensive series of meetings with the developer and community members, both separately and together, to discuss key issues.
* They will talk about project density, Levin said.
Alloy is asking the city to triple the site's existing zoning limits.
* They will talk about lowering the height of the towers, Levin said.
Alloy's plans call for two towers. The one that would be the Chrysler Building's height would be 986 feet, or 74 stories, tall. The second tower would be 38 stories tall.
* They will talk about including setbacks on the State Street side of the project, Levin said.
The development site's boundaries are State Street, Third Avenue, Schermerhorn Street and Flatbush Avenue.
“I'm open to compromise from all sides,” Levin told the Eagle. “And my understanding is the community has put forward some reasonable compromise ideas.”
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Brooklyn Borough President said lower that skyscraper height
It would be helpful for Alloy to win Levin's backing.
Because Alloy is asking for zoning changes for the 80 Flatbush project, there's a public approval process that will include a vote by the full City Council.
In votes such as this, City Councilmembers usually follow the lead of their colleague who reps the district where the development site is located.
The public approval process is called a Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, or ULURP.
The most recent step in the process was completed earlier this month — when the City Planning Commission approved Alloy's 80 Flatbush plan.
Earlier in the year, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams recommended the height of the proposed 986-foot tower be cut to a maximum of 600 feet.
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Councilman hints at chopping height of proposed 986-foot Brooklyn tower
Key lawmaker wants project to bridge density of Downtown Brooklyn with low-rise Boerum Hill
By Joe Anuta
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Councilman Stephen Levin wants a development team proposing a 986-foot tower across the street from the Atlantic Terminal transit hub to make it more of a bridge between high-density Downtown Brooklyn and low-rise Boreum Hill. Wielding a key vote on the project, he likely has the leverage to compel such a change—which could conceivably halve the building's height.
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The project has pit neighborhood residents who enjoy their low-rise neighborhood steps from a major transit hub and want to preserve their light and air against others who want to maximize the amount of affordable and market-rate housing near public transportation as the city's economic and population growth drive up housing prices.
In this case, the developers are pitching a higher density than any project built in the area over the past few decades. But for most of the last century, Brooklyn's tallest building by far was 529 feet, a height recently eclipsed by a number of downtown towers, with more in the works.
Atlantic Terminal is one of the most connected train stations in the city, with access to the N, Q, R, W, B, D, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 subway lines and the Long Island Rail Road. The Boerum Hill rowhouse owners' desire to curb the number of apartments nearby flies in the face of a central tenet of city planning: put density next to public transit.
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