Land Use committee adopts six zoning items including office‑to‑housing conversions and Brooklyn rezonings; all items advanced to full committee

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 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.