Well, yeah its being developed around former landfill...
http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/download...ription-09.pdf
Fresh Creek Urban Renewal Area
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The FCURA, part of the New Lots area of Brooklyn, was first inhabited by Dutch settlers in the 17th and 18th centuries and was primarily rural until the 20th century. The portion of New Lots south of Stanley Avenue was predominantly salt meadows and streams or kills (such as Hendrix Creek and Spring Creek). The meadows remained in agricultural use even while the surrounding East New York neighborhoods grew and developed. The transformation of the FCURA began in the 1930s. Most of the Project Site was used as the Milford Street Landfill until 1950, when municipal landfill operations stopped. After its use as a landfill, the Project Site was used for illegal dumping, and prone to fires, odors, and occasional flooding. However, the public sector was instrumental in transforming the adjacent area. Significant developments included the construction of the Shore Parkway to the south in the 1940s and the 26th Ward Water Pollution Control Plant to the west in the 1950s.
In 1967, the City established the FCURA pursuant to Article 15, Section 504 (“the Urban Renewal Law”) of the General Municipal Law, and HPD was charged with implementing the provisions of the FCURP. The FCURA governed development within the area bounded by Flatlands Avenue on the north, Fountain Avenue on the east, the Shore Parkway on the south, and Schenck Avenue/Hendrix Creek on the west. The FCURP sought to:
• Eliminate blight and maximize appropriate land use;
• Strengthen the tax base of the city by encouraging development and employment opportunities in the area;
• Provide new housing exhibiting good design in terms of privacy, light, air, and open space;
• Provide convenient community facilities, parks and recreational uses, local and regional commercial uses, and parking; and
• Redevelop the area in a comprehensive manner, removing blight and establishing both a residential and regional commercial character for the area, with appropriate support facilities.
Subsequent to approval of the 1967 FCURP, there was limited development within the FCURA. In 1972, the Brooklyn Developmental Center (Block 4586, p/o Lot 300) and its adjacent streets were constructed on the eastern portion of the FCURA, but the balance of the site remained vacant. In 1982, the FCURP was amended to remove Block 4452, Lot 425. By the mid-1990s the only uses that had been developed within the FCURA were the Brooklyn Developmental Center, the 7.7-acre Thomas Jefferson Athletic Field (Block 4451, Lot 1), and certain streets.
In 1996, HPD issued the second amended FCURP along with the Gateway Estates Final Environmental Impact Statement (“1996 FEIS”). The purpose of the second amended FCURP was to implement the land use plan conceived in 1967 when the FCURA was established. The second amended FCURP specified a land use plan for the site and development controls in terms of use, density, and bulk. Accordingly, the City mapped streets and public parklands within the FCURA:
• Residential: Up to 2,385 residential units, consisting of up to 200 senior citizen housing units pending U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development funding, 500 units of Nehemiah housing built by East Brooklyn Congregations, up to 1,475 units for sale or rent to middle-income households, and 125 units to be developed for low- to moderate-income households;
• Retail: Approximately 655,000 square feet (sf) of retail comprised of 15,000 sf of neighborhood-oriented retail and a 640,000-square-foot shopping center with 2,685 accessory parking spaces;
• Community Facilities: 30,000 sf of community facility space, an elementary and an intermediate school (pending funding), and a 4,000 sf nursery school;
• Office: 10,000 sf of professional office space;
• Public Open Space: 45.2 acres of new and improved open space, including a 42.1 acre perimeter park and 3.1 acres of interior parks; and
• Infrastructure: New and improved infrastructure to support the 1996 Plan, including water mains, sewage disposal, drainage, new streets, and a Shore Parkway interchange.
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