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The items were considered together and voted on as a group. Committee members approved modifications on several items and advanced others without modifications; the final recorded vote on the coupled items was 10 in the affirmative, 0 opposed and 0 abstentions.

Short summaries of the items the committee advanced:

- LU 331 & LU 332 — 40 Seventh Hall Street rezoning (applicant seeks to repurpose a full block near the Brooklyn Navy Yard for mixed‑use development). The presentation cited a projected total of approximately 611 apartments, with 153–183 permanently affordable units; sponsors recommended removing MIH Option 2 to require deeper affordability (average about 60% AMI for the affordable units). The committee approved this item with modifications.

- LU 333 & LU 334 — 347 Flushing Avenue rezoning (Brooklyn; includes legalization of an existing legally nonconforming residential building and mapping changes to allow additional commercial uses). Council Member (speaker) Russell described negotiated community agreements tied to the development: dedicated parking spaces for an emergency response organization (“the showroom”) and a new food pantry space for United Jewish organizations of Williamsburg and North Brooklyn. The subcommittee recorded LU 333/334 as approved without modifications; the full package was adopted by the committee.

- LU 335 & LU 336 — 236 Gold Street rezoning (change from R6B to C6‑2A to allow a roughly 114‑unit mixed‑use building, approximately 30 permanently affordable units). Sponsors said they removed MIH Option 2 and required a deeper affordability option (60% AMI) while securing a $500,000 parks contribution, sustainability measures, and design setbacks aimed at reducing impacts on adjacent row‑house neighbors. The committee approved this item with modifications.

- LU 337 & LU 338 — 42‑11 30th Avenue rezoning (applicant seeks a mixed‑use residential building of approximately 32 units, including about eight permanently affordable units). Committee sponsors said they removed MIH Option 2 and added MIH Option 3 for this item. The committee approved the item with modifications.

- LU 339–341 — Lenox Hill Hospital package (described in a separate article) — approved with modifications.

Committee members who spoke in favor and explained local negotiations included Council Member Hudson (who spoke about 47 Hall Street — a project in her district that she described as producing roughly 620 mixed‑income units, including over 150 units permanently affordable at ~60% AMI — and which the committee record associated with the Hall Street item), and Council Member Russell (who described negotiated community uses at 347 Flushing Avenue). Those remarks were part of the committee record and explained local mitigation and community benefit agreements.

By a roll call reported at the end of the hearing, the committee reported the items adopted as described by the chair; the items are referred to the full Land Use Committee for the next steps in the Council review process.

The committee record notes that some item descriptions and unit‑count projections were presented as estimates during the hearing; sponsors and staff said final unit and affordability counts depend on project proposals and MIH election choices by applicants.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","🔴 LIVE: Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises & Committee on Land Use","oneSentenceSummary","The committee voted to approve a package of land‑use items advanced from the zoning subcommittee: 40 Seventh Hall (LU 331/332), 347 Flushing Avenue (LU 333/334), 236 Gold Street (LU 335/336), 42‑11 30th Avenue (LU 337/338) and others. The measures were adopted as described by the chair and will move to further Council consideration.","taxTitle","New York City Council, New York City, New York County, New York","taxId",77593,"location","New York","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":77,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":78,"_41":79,"_43":80,"_45":81,"_47":82,"_49":83,"_51":84,"_53":85,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":86,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":87,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6586139,"Land Use committee approves Lenox Hill Hospital rezoning with limits on height and stronger hospital‑use requirements",1403,4778000,6181000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5551023-c9c52d3c63885ec726cac5d0bf38e3ea&start=4778&end=6181","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5551023-c9c52d3c63885ec726cac5d0bf38e3ea/thumbnail_4778000.jpg","/articles/6586139/New-York/Land-Use-committee-approves-Lenox-Hill-Hospital-rezoning-with-limits-on-height-and-stronger-hospitaluse-requirements","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6586139-fba63531b48e5c8b3db900aed988480b/orig.mp4?Expires=1771125656&Signature=bJa4cRZY-CeuKcXwKzCKPdz1Sf4lc4pKnPX-yswKapuGoBI-qpOtI4E2DlWMLZViQ-yv1EEKTwTBH7O7jFwNuhX~MdUl5RfUHsWnfATu8xu1SAy45lHDwmtc3ADmgOXriu1dP0TelWW6AWTMMzIP7NkPLiitcmZoxdLYNdLddcyvIHInPNJwU7UWDR6NMKBDP4WMCIr52hrMXXs0BB-XBJFXLLj6R8QqR4iV9CzysmIxXtyVy-R-g1kSfZKt5kbVcxvflpwNlE0AyKISkdOXZ8GK6xTyLXVwmkqv2L9LJTlid0XEf1iyVLShBkf8tyDQewlHI~BiJqluJcC-EaOaGQ__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The New York City Council Committee on Land Use approved modifications to the Lenox Hill Hospital redevelopment plan, a package of zoning map, text and special‑permit actions that sponsors said will facilitate rebuilding an aging campus while preserving hospital capacity.

Council members considered LU 339, LU 340 and LU 341 and voted to approve the actions with modifications. The committee’s recommendations will be forwarded to the full Land Use Committee and then the Council.

Subcommittee chair Kevin Riley introduced the item and described three land‑use actions proposed by the applicant: (1) rezoning most of the full block bounded by East 70th and East 71st Streets (between Lexington and Park Avenues) to higher commercial districts, (2) a zoning text amendment to create a special permit controlling the hospital’s bulk and to map MIH where required, and (3) the special permit itself.

Committee sponsors said the redevelopment would replace an aging 10‑building campus and allow construction of a single, modern hospital building with updated clinical standards. The applicant’s design presented during the hearing showed a hospital with 475 single‑bed patient rooms and expanded emergency and operating facilities.

The committee approved three key modifications to the City Planning Commission recommendations:

- Remove one development alternative (referred to during the hearing as Option 2) from the special‑permit options and reduce the maximum height along Lexington Avenue for the remaining option from the prior figure (436 feet as cited earlier in the review record) to 370 feet; sponsors said the change reduces tower scale along Lexington while keeping capacity.

- Require that at least 95% of the proposed development site be used for hospital purposes to qualify for the special permit; the CPC record previously allowed a lower hospital‑use percentage (75%).

- Require a through‑block ambulance circulation route: ambulances would enter from East 71st Street, access interior ambulance bays, and exit on East 70th Street, rather than backing out on East 71st Street. The applicant also agreed to relocate the hospital’s mother‑baby entrance off Park Avenue onto East 70th Street.

Council Member Keith Powers, who spoke at both subcommittee and full committee, framed the revisions as a response to community concerns about scale and construction. Powers said the final package reduces the hospital height and shortens the construction timeline from earlier proposals, while preserving inpatient capacity. He described commitments that sponsors and the hospital made for transit and community benefits, including a $20 million new southbound subway entrance to make the platform ADA accessible, a $5 million commitment for northbound accessibility repairs and approximately $2.5 million in additional community benefits (sanitation, beautification, education and outreach), as presented in the hearing.

Sponsors and members emphasized that the revisions are intended to retain the hospital’s health‑care capacity while addressing neighborhood scale and circulation issues.

The committee approved LU 339, LU 340 and LU 341 with the described modifications and referred the items for further Council consideration.","The Council committee approved a package of zoning actions to allow Lenox Hill Hospital to modernize on its existing campus, with committee modifications that lower the proposed Lexington Avenue tower height, require most of the site to remain hospital use, and change ambulance circulation and entry locations.",{"_33":89,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":90,"_41":91,"_43":92,"_45":93,"_47":94,"_49":95,"_51":96,"_53":97,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":98,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":99,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6586143,"Land Use committee approves Midtown South rezoning with modifications to protect garment jobs, add housing and public space",909,3614000,4523000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5551023-c9c52d3c63885ec726cac5d0bf38e3ea&start=3614&end=4523","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5551023-c9c52d3c63885ec726cac5d0bf38e3ea/thumbnail_3614000.jpg","/articles/6586143/New-York/Land-Use-committee-approves-Midtown-South-rezoning-with-modifications-to-protect-garment-jobs-add-housing-and-public-space","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6586143-cee9f1d95cc3626ac55edec0da3e9997/orig.mp4?Expires=1771125656&Signature=ICahYTLxyckFip-I32IDTlW82Y4-j47r07FY-iQuVczkYva6nZdDjyhaZVqlp2850WdRrzqzkcDMm-ieHKNlcp4YP5MtVYr90BwLSMvXHic7mLUGUBsWlb7NmkFgi4fTDg5TRBlxXNtAvPyvH9NY9tVU~4PhUpT0WseLR19K~Tbtd~7rJqktG77zdsrJBARxpq6emC99Qm8DvwTBALh4LwLW4SYZZ~Ba30qCrWxY2052dWsdW9rogvpLm04FHOc-VLEMn6ZtcRhUYeGZC8b~333Z3eq~WAQDIudAFKSYlaoTwMZsIf1s3CEf7Kj4GTdAk0TxXeClcJgHuAGSpzfduQ__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The New York City Council Committee on Land Use approved modifications to the Midtown South Mixed Use Plan, a zoning map and text change to create a new Midtown South Mixed Use Special District that council members said would allow housing and mixed commercial uses in an area of Manhattan that has long been zoned primarily for manufacturing.

Council Member Kevin Riley, chair of the Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises, introduced the plan and the recommended changes. The committee approved the measure as LU 324 and LU 325 with modifications.

The committee and sponsors described the rezoning as a major housing and public‑realm opportunity. Council Member Batcher said the plan will “unlock[] 9,535 new homes, including 2,842 permanently affordable homes” and called the shortage of housing a “moral emergency.” Riley and other members described the proposal as a chance to add both market‑rate and income‑restricted housing near transit, while preserving local industrial employment.

Under the proposal, the plan would replace the existing Garment Center Special District with a Midtown South Mixed Use Special District divided into four subareas (northwest, northeast, southeast and southwest). The land‑use package the committee considered includes (a) a zoning map amendment to change certain M1 manufacturing districts to mixed light‑manufacturing/residential pairings (for example, M1‑9A paired with an R12 or R11 residential district), and (b) a zoning text amendment to establish the special district and related rules, including mapping a Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) area.

Committee sponsors reported projected housing yields in slightly varying figures during the hearing; members cited estimates of roughly 9,500 to 9,700 total units, of which about 2,800–2,900 would be income‑restricted under MIH. Sponsors and staff emphasized that specific unit counts depend on future development patterns and market decisions.

The committee recommended three principal modifications to the City Planning Commission recommendations to preserve employment and neighborhood character:

- Preserve a portion of the Garment District: the mid‑block portion of blocks between West 30th and West 40th Streets (between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in the northwest subarea) would be mapped to M1‑9A manufacturing only (allowing up to 15 FAR of light industrial and commercial uses) rather than an R12 pairing. Sponsors said buildings on those blocks are unlikely to redevelop as housing and that keeping manufacturing zoning preserves a cluster of interdependent fashion businesses that support Broadway and the city’s fashion economy.

- Reduce residential bulk in the southeast subarea: four southern blocks between West 23rd (transcript reference corrected to match hearing text) and West 27th Streets would be mapped M1‑8A/R11 instead of M1‑8A/R12 to create a lower‑scale transition adjacent to Chelsea and Flatiron and to protect historic district fabric in that area.

- Street wall and base‑height rules: the committee recommended removing a proposed special district rule that would have allowed a building to take on a higher base height if its neighbor exceeded the allowed base; proposed maximum base heights in the southeast subarea were retained in the range cited by staff (roughly 60 to 155 feet) to avoid overwhelming pedestrians.

Sponsors also described a large public‑space and capital package tied to the rezoning: a $325 million program to reconfigure Broadway into a continuous promenade of plazas and raised street beds, a proposed car‑free busway on 34th Street, a continuous Seventh Avenue bike lane, nearly 400 new street trees, a $13.5 million renovation of McCaffrey Playground, a new enclosed EMS station to replace an existing trailer, transit improvement bonus eligibility across rezoning sites, and commitments to pursue landmark designations for select buildings in the garment and flower districts. Council members cited a $121,900,000 public‑private investment package intended to support the garment sector during transition.

During the hearing members and sponsors said the modifications were intended to strike a balance between adding housing in a transit‑rich part of Manhattan and protecting an industrial cluster that supports creative industries. Council Member Keith Powers, who spoke in support, said the plan is a “next big step” toward housing production in Manhattan and stressed efforts to minimize construction impacts and preserve neighborhood character.

The committee voted to approve the items with the described modifications and referred them to the full Land Use Committee and subsequent Council steps.

While supporters emphasized housing and job protections, testimony in the hearing and public comment (summarized by staff during the presentation) reflected attention to construction impacts, historic‑district protections, and the need to preserve small‑business ecosystems. The committee record notes that exact unit counts and development timing will depend on future project proposals and market conditions.

The Midtown South Mixed Use Plan will proceed through the Council’s land‑use review process following the committee vote.","The City Council Committee on Land Use approved modifications to the Midtown South Mixed Use Plan, a rezoning that officials said would allow roughly 9,500–9,700 new apartments (about 2,800–2,900 income-restricted units), preserve parts of the Garment District, and fund major public‑space upgrades including a proposed Broadway promenade.","actionData","errors"]

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