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Committee approves expansion of West 117th Street Design Review District to include Detroit Avenue

Development, Planning, and Sustainability committee · March 24, 2026
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The Development, Planning, and Sustainability committee approved ordinance 1521-2025 on March 24 to add Detroit Avenue (between West 107th and West 116th Street) to the West 117th Street Design Review District while removing select residential parcels to ease routine homeowner permitting, officials said.

The Development, Planning, and Sustainability committee on March 24 approved ordinance 1521-2025 to expand the West 117th Street Design Review District to include additional parcels along Detroit Avenue between West 107th and West 116th Street while removing certain residential parcels south of Thornton Road and north of Lorraine Avenue.

Xavier Bay, a zoning planner with city planning, said the map change (map change 2683) is intended to "save a lot of this urban fabric that you see…

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