125th Street Zoning
Chairman's announcement
CB 10 Review of FUCA
125th Street Community Task Force Update
125th Street Task Force Members
125th Street POA
125th Street Rezoning Announcement
CB10 125th Street Rezoning Proposal Final
Take Control Over Your Community
On October 1, 2007, the Department
of City Planning (DCP) certified the application to rezone the 125th
street corridor. Overall, the rezoning plan
proposed by the City of New York through its lead agency, Department of City (DCP)has
many elements that Community Board Ten finds useful and appropriate,
and supports them. Examples of this are the creation of a Special District
with height, bulk, setbacks and uses restrictions; its focus on Arts
and Culture; the preservation of its brownstone residential stock,
among others. However, there are key elements in the DCP plan
that run counter to and will alter the existing context and character
of the 125th street corridor to an extent the community deems
unacceptable.
While there is a dire need
for housing that Harlemites can afford, given the current incomes levels
of the community, it is clear to the community at large and Community
Board Ten specifically that the DCP plan does not address this
need and, in the process of executing its proposed plan, it would turn
125th street from an overwhelmingly commercial corridor, Our
Main Street, into a mixed used corridor from which current Harlem residents
would be alienated.
125th street is
Harlem's Central Business District, and the Community Board Ten and
the community at large want to preserve and enhance this commercial
character. It does so by stating clearly in the uses and floor
area ratios allocated to each zoning district within the special district
a ratio that promotes and provides great incentive for such commercial
use.
Community Board Ten does
not oppose housing development on the 125th street corridor,
but it favors this residential development on 124th and 126th
streets. Moreover, the DCP proposed plan does not meaningfully
address the manifest concern the Harlem community has about fostering
housing development targeted to income levels that predominate currently
in the Harlem community and not based on measures that take into account
income levels that predominate elsewhere in Manhattan, other New York
City boroughs and Rockland and Orange counties.
The DCP proposed plan
would potentially double the floor area dedicated to commercial uses
on the corridor. This increase is positive and it is welcome.
But in contrast, the proposed plan would potentially increase the floor
area dedicated to residential development eight times over. This
inordinate and disproportionate development would radically change the
character of Harlem's Central Business District and would not provide
any substantive benefit to the Harlemites that currently reside
in the community.
Community Board Ten is mindful
of the need for rezoning the 125th street corridor.
Consequently, Board Ten is proposing an alternative plan to rezone the
corridor. Enclosed you will find "Our Main
Street" a narrative explanation of Board Ten's position.
As a decision maker in this
land use public review process Community Board Ten solicits your support
for its alternative plan for the 125th street corridor.
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For the first time since 1961, the government of the City of New York is proposing a wholesale change to the zoning of 125th street. Zoning is the set of rules and regulations that govern the bulk and the size of a building as well as what uses that building can accommodate. In other words, zoning regulates how big or small and tall or short a building can be, including the shape it can have. Zoning also establishes broadly how a building can be used, whether it is for housing or office space or a museum or gym or a combination of all of these examples... Read More...
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CB 10 voted 'DISAPPROVE, WIth Conditions' in the resolution to the NYC Dept of Planning's 125th St Rezoning Proposal
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE RESOLUTION
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CB 10 voted 'DISAPPROVE, WIth Conditions' in the resolution to the NYC Dept of Planning's 125th St Rezoning Proposal
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE RESOLUTIONList of city officials CB 10 would like the public to contact:
125th Rezoning City Planning Commission
Amanda
M. Burden, Chair, City Planning Commission http://www.nyc.gov/html/mail
Kenneth J. Knuckles, Esq., Vice Chairman UMEZ kknuckles@umez.org,
Angela
M. Battaglia http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp
Irwin
G. Cantor, P.E.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp
Angela
R. Cavaluzzi, R.A. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp
Alfred
C. Cerullo, III http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp
Betty
Y. Chen http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp
Richard
W. Eaddy http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp
Lisa
A. Gomez http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp
Nathan
Leventhal http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp
John
Merolo
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp
Karen
A. Phillips http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp
Dolly
Williams http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp
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Zoning subcommittee: Simcha Felder
Eric N. Gioia
Robert Jackson
Michael E. McMahon
Joel Rivera
Larry B. Seabrook
Helen Sears
Kendall Stewart
Albert Vann
Land use committee: all of the above, plus
Maria del Carmen Arroyo
Maria Baez
Charles Barron
Leroy G. Comrie, Jr.
Inez E. Dickens
Daniel R. Garodnick
Sara M. Gonzalez
Vincent Ignizio
Jessica S. Lappin
John C. Liu
Miguel Martinez
Rosie Mendez
James S. Oddo
Annabel Palma
Helen Sears