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Councilmembers urge approval of Atlantic Avenue Mixed Use Plan to deliver 4,600 homes and neighborhood investments
Summary
Council presenters described the Atlantic Avenue Mixed Use Plan as a community-led rezoning that would add 4,600 housing units — about 1,900 permanently income-restricted — and more than $215 million in infrastructure and community investments; council members framed the plan as addressing housing, safety and jobs as they prepared to vote.
Speaker Adams opened the session saying the council would vote on multiple land-use items, including the Atlantic Avenue Mixed Use Plan. Council Member Crystal Hudson and Council Member Chiyose (Chiyo Se) presented the plan to the chamber, describing a multi-year, community-led rezoning that they said would deliver 4,600 housing units across Community Board Districts 3 and 8, approximately 1,900 of which would be permanently income-restricted, and more than $215,000,000 in new community investments.
Hudson said the plan, commonly referred to as AMUP, follows “more than a decade of advocacy” and nearly three years of public engagement. She said the package includes infrastructure upgrades, park and playground renovations, subway-station improvements, tenant and homeowner protections, and investments aimed at economic development and safer streets. “This plan delivers nearly 1,900 affordable homes for low and moderate income New Yorkers, including those who've experienced homelessness,” Hudson said.
Chiyose (Chiyo Se) said the plan would “unlock 4,600 new homes” and that some units would be offered at rents as low as about $800 a month for studios and about $1,200 for three-bedroom units, proximate to public transit. She said the council negotiated additional services and funding for Central Brooklyn and modified applications to require Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) Option 1 in the amended applications.
Presenters emphasized that AMUP combines housing production with neighborhood investments: Hudson and Chiyose cited $215 million-plus in commitments for park renovations, streets and public-realm improvements, transit station upgrades, and support for tenant protections and local hiring programs. Hudson also characterized the council’s recent land-use record as part of a broader response to the city’s housing shortage: “This council has led on confronting the city's housing crisis, approving citywide zoning reforms, neighborhood rezonings, and individual land use applications that constitute 240,000 units of housing,” she said.
The presenters thanked the Department of City Planning, Housing Preservation and Development, Transportation, Parks, Small Business Services and community boards for their work in negotiations. Hudson and Chiyose framed AMUP as a model of community planning and an effort to deliver both housing and public investments to the affected neighborhoods.
The floor then prepared to take the vote on AMUP as part of the day’s land-use agenda; the transcript records the presentations and a statement that the council would vote, but does not include a roll-call tally or final vote result within the provided excerpt.
The plan affects multiple neighborhoods in central Brooklyn, and council members described the measure as intended to increase permanently affordable housing and to fund neighborhood infrastructure improvements. If adopted as presented in the hearing, the package would require implementation work by city agencies listed by presenters and by developers subject to MIH and negotiated commitments.
Ending: Council members framed the Atlantic Avenue Mixed Use Plan as a negotiated, community-led rezoning that pairs new housing with investments in parks, transit and local services; the transcript records presentation and the council preparing to vote but does not include the final recorded vote tally or implementation timeline.
