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Sustainable Communities
The Department of City Planning is participating in an unprecedented, bi-state collaboration of cities, counties and regional planning organzations who have united to form the New York-Connecticut Sustainable Communities Consortium. The Consortium was awarded $3.5 million in funding in the inaugural year of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program. The consortium will undertake a combination of regionally and locally oriented initiatives to promote sustainable, transit-oriented development throughout the region. Initiatives DCP leads under the Sustainable Communities program include three studies: a coordinated neighborhood planning study in East New York, Brooklyn; an evaluation of land use and transportation opportunities near Metro-North Stations in the Bronx; and several activities to advance citywide strategic planning efforts for building climate resilience.
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Gowanus Canal Corridor Study
The Department of City Planning has initiated a study of the Gowanus Canal corridor to establish a comprehensive framework to guide future land use changes. This effort responds to requests from the local community to establish a dialogue on land use issues in the Gowanus Canal area.
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Downtown Brooklyn Pedestrian Study
The Department of City Planning has undertaken a study to formulate recommendations for improving the pedestrian experience in Downtown Brooklyn and the surrounding neighborhoods with clearer, easier, more pedestrian-friendly connections. |
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| Recently Adopted Rezonings*: |
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Special 4th Avenue Enhanced Commercial District Adopted 11/29/11
The Department of City Planning is proposing a zoning text amendment and zoning map change to create the Special Fourth Avenue Enhanced Commercial District for the portion of Fourth Avenue from Atlantic Avenue to 24th Street in Brooklyn Community Districts 2, 6 and 7. The proposed special district would ensure the continued development of Fourth Avenue as a lively, mixed use neighborhood by establishing regulations to promote a vibrant mix of retail, commercial and community facility uses on the ground floor of new developments and enlargements, and would apply certain streetscape and sidewalk continuity guidelines to enhance the pedestrian environment.
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Boerum Hill Rezoning Adopted 9/21/11
In response to requests from the local community, local elected officials and Brooklyn Community Board 2, the Department of City Planning is proposing zoning map changes for 31 blocks of the Boerum Hill neighborhood. The proposed rezoning would replace the existing R6 and R7B zoning districts with contextual R6A, R6B and R7A zoning districts and would map new commercial overlays to maintain the neighborhood’s character and support the neighborhood’s mixed-use corridors.
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Culver El Rezoning Adopted 10/27/10
At the request of local elected officials, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and the Department of City Planning (DCP) are proposing several actions to facilitate the Culver El Proposal. The Proposal would map lower- , mid-density and contextual zoning districts on all or portions of seven blocks and facilitate the development of 68 units of affordable housing and 48 accessory parking spaces for neighborhood community facilities in the Greenwood Heights section of Brooklyn’s Community District 12.
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* Most recently approved proposals are described as originally proposed by the Department of City Planning. Any modifications of the proposals by the City Planning Commission or the City Council are summarized under Public Review, where viewers may link to the CPC report and, in some instances, to the final enacted zoning text.
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| Earlier Rezonings**: |
- Carroll Gardens/Columbia Street Rezoning
Adopted by the City Council on October 28, 2009.
- Sunset Park Rezoning
Adopted by the City Council on September 30, 2009.
- Flatbush Rezoning
Adopted by the City Council on July 29, 2009.
- DUMBO Rezoning
Adopted by the City Council on July 29, 2009.
- Greenpoint-Williamsburg Contextual
Rezoning
Adopted by the City Council on July 29, 2009.
- Coney Island Comprehensive Rezoning
Plan
Adopted by the City Council on July 29, 2009.
- Canarsie Rezoning
Adopted by the City Council on June 30, 2009.
- East Windsor Terrace / Stable Brooklyn Rezoning
Adopted by the City Council on March 11, 2009.
- Carroll Gardens Narrow Street/Wide Street Zoning Text Amendment
Adopted by the City Council on July 23, 2008.
- Grand Street
Adopted by the City Council on March 26, 2008.
- Bedford/Stuyvesant South
Adopted by the City Council on October 29, 2007.
- Fort Greene / Clinton Hill
Adopted by the City Council on July 25, 2007.
- Dyker Heights/Ft. Hamilton
Adopted by the City Council on July 25, 2007.
- Midwood
Adopted by the City Council on April 5, 2006.
- Homecrest
Adopted by the City Council on February 15, 2006.
- Sheepshead Bay
Adopted by the City Council on February 15, 2006.
- South Park Slope
Adopted by the City Council on November 16, 2005.
- Bensonhurst
Adopted by the City Council on June 23, 2005.
- Greenpoint-Williamsburg Land Use and Waterfront Plan
Adopted by the City Council on May 11, 2005.
- Special Bay Ridge District
Adopted by the City Council on March 23, 2005.
- Downtown Brooklyn
Adopted by the City Council on June 28, 2004.
- Bridge Plaza
Adopted by the City Council on August 19, 2003.
- Park Slope
Adopted by the City Council on April 30, 2003.
- Special Downtown Brooklyn District
Adopted by the City Council on July 26, 2001
** The Earlier Rezonings are no longer being updated. They are presented for reference purposes. |
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| Withdrawn***: |
- Brighton Beach Rezoning:
Withdrawn on June 11, 2009.
*** For a description of the withdrawn proposal, please click on the appropriate link above |
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