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Land Use committee adopts six zoning items including office‑to‑housing conversions and Brooklyn rezonings; all items advanced to full committee
Summary
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.
The New York City Council Committee on Land Use adopted a package of six land‑use items that had been considered in the zoning subcommittee and advanced them to the full Land Use Committee and Council.
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…
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