Two-family,
semidetached home --
typical development in the proposed R3-1 zoning district
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The Department of City Planning (DCP) has proposed zoning
map changes for more than 85 blocks in the Brookville
neighborhood in southeast Queens, Community District
13. The rezoning, one of the Department’s lower-density
rezoning initiatives in Queens, aims to maintain the
prevailing one- and two-family character of the neighborhood
and ensure that new residential development fits the
context and scale of the area’s existing housing
mix.
The Brookville rezoning area is located just north
of JFK International Airport and is surrounded on three
sides by parkland. Its general boundaries are South
Conduit Avenue to the north, Brookville Park and 232nd
Street to the east, 149th Avenue and Idlewild Park
to the south and Springfield Park and Springfield Boulevard
to the west. Most of the area is zoned R3-2 but typically
developed with one- and two- family detached and semi-detached
homes. In the northeastern section of the neighborhood
there is a small cluster of one-family row houses.
Two blocks in the center of the rezoning area are zoned
M1-1 and developed with single-story light industrial
buildings. These blocks will not be rezoned as part
of this action.
The proposed zoning changes, the first in the area
since1961, respond to community concerns about the
construction of multifamily apartment buildings on
parcels of vacant land or replacing existing single-family
homes. Under the existing R3-2 zoning, which is the
city’s lowest density zoning district permitting
all types of housing, a 25-unit apartment development
was constructed as-of-right adjacent to Brookville
Park in 2001.
Proposed
Zoning
DCP proposes to rezone the area from R3-2 to R3-1
and R4B districts. An R4B district, which allows
row house development, is proposed for a section
of a small five-block area generally bounded by South
Conduit Avenue, Brookville Park and Lansing Avenue
in the northeast part of the neighborhood. An R3-1
zoning district is proposed for the remainder of
the rezoning area and would limit the type of housing
that could be built to detached or semi-detached
homes. Both zoning districts would limit new residential
development to one- and two-family homes. The new
zoning districts will reflect the area’s existing
one- and two-family character and will ensure that
any new development will be consistent with neighborhood
development patterns.
DCP also proposes to establish a C1-3 overlay districts
on four block fronts in Brookville that have long been
developed with commercial uses serving the local community.
Commercial overlays would be mapped on two sections
of the east side of 228th Street between 147th Avenue
and 145th Road opposite the manufacturing area and
at the corner of South Conduit Avenue and Lansing Avenue.
An existing C2 overlay district on South Conduit Avenue
between Springfield Boulevard and 224th Street would
be changed to C1-3 to limit commercial uses to local
retail and personal service shops that would serve
the immediate residential neighborhood.
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