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https://ny.curbed.com/2019/1/30/1820...oning-proposal

City releases Gowanus rezoning proposal, calls for denser towers, waterfront access, affordable housing
The industrial Brooklyn neighborhood is poised for big changes






By Amy Plitt
Jan 30, 2019


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Gowanus may be poised for major changes in the not-so-distant future: A potential rezoning of Gowanus has been in the cards for several years, and today, the city finally unveiled its proposal for the Brooklyn neighborhood.

“We’ve been listening to, learning from and working with neighborhood residents, businesses, community organizations and elected officials. There’s a consistent message: grow smart and grow green,” Marisa Lagos, the commissioner of the Department of City Planning, said in a statement. The rezoning proposal, she says, “will assure that the Gowanus that we love today will remain a vibrant mixed-use community for generations of Brooklynites to come.”

The proposal is based off of the framework prepared by DCP over the summer, and builds off of some of the key points of that framework: creating more (and affordable) housing, prioritizing space for light industrial and cultural institutions, and cleaning up the Superfund-adjacent neighborhood
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Some of the key points:

-While many parts of the neighborhood would be zoned for both residential and commercial use, some would remain exclusively dedicated to manufacturing (including some blocks adjacent to Fourth Avenue).

-The maximum height for new buildings would be 22 stories, save for a lot at 5th and Smith streets, which could become home to a “major mixed-use development with housing reaching deeper levels of affordability and additional space for community facilities, retail and open space,” which could rise 25-30 stories.

-DCP will mandate not only affordable housing for new residential developments through the Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) provision—including on Fourth Avenue, which was previously rezoned—but also publicly-accessible waterfront space for any canal-adjacent developments.

-The city will allow “flexible building envelopes” along the canal to encourage diverse, good design.

-Brownfield clean-up will be prioritized.

-Zoning rules will be relaxed above transit stations (like 4th Avenue-9th Street) to allow for denser buildings, while bringing in improvements to subway stations (including ones that would make them ADA compliant).
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