City Council set to vote on sweeping Long Island City rezoning to allow nearly 15,000 homes
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The City Council advanced a package of land‑use items including the 1 LIC neighborhood plan that would rezone roughly 54 blocks in Long Island City to allow nearly 15,000 new homes, about 4,350 designated affordable under MIH mapping, and roughly 3.8 million square feet of commercial and community space; Council members stressed community benefits,
The New York City Council moved on a slate of land‑use votes that includes the 1 LIC neighborhood plan, a rezoning of roughly 54 blocks in Long Island City intended to enable nearly 15,000 new homes, approximately 4,350 of which would be permanently affordable under Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) mapping, and about 3,800,000 square feet of commercial, community‑facility and light industrial space.
Speaker Adams announced the land‑use package and singled out the 1 LIC plan as the largest neighborhood rezoning in more than two decades, saying it would be accompanied by “historic community investments” including major funding for new public schools, support for local public housing developments, waterfront access and transportation improvements. “We want their homes to remain affordable,” Council Member David Carr said elsewhere while discussing companion legislation to support neighborhoods.
Council Member Julie Won, whose district includes the proposed rezoning area, told the chamber that mayor‑elect Zoram Mamdani and his team had been engaged in planning and negotiations and that the plan secures community benefits including new schools, waterfront connections, infrastructure resiliency work and targeted funding for Queensbridge Houses. Won described years of negotiation and contrasted the current proposals with earlier private investment proposals.
Other land‑use items bundled with the agenda include the 7801 Queens Boulevard application (a proposed 13‑story mixed use building of about 314 homes with 79 permanently affordable under MIH option 1), text amendments to the Atlantic Avenue Mixed Use Plan (AAMUP) to limit certain nonresidential incentives to light industrial and arts uses, and smaller rezoning applications in Council Member Justin Brannan’s district (58 Nixon Court and 464 Ovington Court) that would produce new mixed‑use and residential buildings with permanently affordable units under MIH.
The council opened the floor to on‑topic questions but the transcript provided does not record any final vote tallies or outcomes for the items introduced. At the meeting, members repeatedly framed the package as tradeoffs to secure publicly funded schools, open space, and waterfront access alongside housing production.
Next steps: the items were introduced for a council vote at this session; the transcript does not include recorded outcomes or vote tallies.
