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East Midtown Rezoning
The Department of City Planning is proposing a rezoning of East Midtown, a 73-block area surrounding Grand Central Terminal. The purpose of the rezoning is to ensure the area’s future as a world-class business district and major job generator for New York City. The plan provides zoning incentives to promote the development of a handful of new, state-of-the-art commercial buildings over coming decades so that East Midtown’s office stock remains attractive to a broad range of businesses, including major corporate tenants. Development under the rezoning is expected to expand the City’s tax base, add thousands of permanent jobs in East Midtown and fund improvements to the subway and pedestrian network in the area. The East Midtown plan is also the first initiative to require a higher standard for energy efficiency, ensuring that new office towers in East Midtown utilizing the zoning incentives will be at the leading edge of energy efficiency. |
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Water Street POPS Programming
The Department of City Planning is proposing a text amendment to the Special Lower Manhattan District to allow events and temporary amenities in existing plazas, arcades, and other privately owned public spaces along and around Water Street for the summer, fall, and holiday seasons of this year. The text amendment is part of an interagency effort to revitalize the Water Street corridor following Hurricane Sandy by allowing temporary programmatic changes to POPS that would help activate these open space resources and attract residents, workers, and visitors. The proposed text amendment would provide additional flexibility in programming these spaces from its effective date until January 1st, 2014.
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East River Waterfront Study
This planning and urban design study proposes short-term improvements and long-term strategies to reconnect Lower Manhattan's diverse communities to a two-mile stretch of East River waterfront. The study area extends from the Battery to the southern edge of East River Park and forms a link between the financial district, the civic center, Chinatown and the Lower East Side.
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| Recently Adopted Rezonings*: |
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Manhattan Core Public Parking Text Amendment - Adopted 5/8/13
The Department of City Planning (DCP) is proposing to revise the zoning regulations governing off-street parking in the Manhattan Core, which is comprised of Manhattan Community Districts 1-8, south of 96th Street on the East Side and below 110th Street on the West Side (excluding Governor's Island, Roosevelt Island and the special Hudson Yards parking regulations). The Manhattan Core already has the most progressive parking regulations in the country with no minimum parking requirement, and with limitations on the amount of permitted parking, however, the Manhattan Core Public Parking Study (2011), identified recent trends in off-street parking as well as a number of deficiencies in the 30-year old existing parking regulations. DCP is now proposing targeted improvements to these existing off-street parking regulations to ensure that the right amount of parking spaces is being provided to support Manhattan Core businesses, residents and visitors while also addressing the city's sustainability objectives to encourage public transit and reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.
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West Harlem Rezoning - Adopted 11/13/12
The Department of City Planning is proposing zoning map and zoning text changes for approximately 90 blocks in the West Harlem neighborhoods of Community District 9, Manhattan. The proposal was developed in partnership with Community Board 9, the Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, NYC Council Member Robert Jackson and community stakeholders. The proposed comprehensive rezoning would protect the strongly-established scale and character of West Harlem’s residential neighborhoods, support economic development and new mixed-use in the existing manufacturing district and strengthen the 145th Street corridor, where appropriate, for transit-oriented development and mixed-income residential development.
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- Upper West Side Neighborhood Retail Streets
Adopted by the City Council on June 28, 2012.
* 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**: |
- M1-6D Text Amendment
Adopted by the City Council on September 29, 2011.
- Special 125th Street District Sidewalk Cafes Text Amendment
Adopted by the City Council on June 29, 2011.
- West Clinton Rezoning
Adopted by the City Council on June 14, 2011.
- Lower Manhattan Arcades Text Amendment
Adopted by the City Council on May 11, 2011.
- Washington & Greenwich Streets Rezoning
Adopted by the City Council on October 27, 2010.
- Hudson Yards / West Chelsea Follow-up
Text Amendment
Adopted by the City Council on October 27, 2010.
- Third Avenue Corridor
Adopted by the City Council on October 27, 2010.
- North Tribeca Rezoning
Adopted by the City Council on October 13, 2010.
- The Hudson Yards Parking Text Amendment
Adopted by the City Council on April 14, 2010.
- 125th Street Follow-Up Text Amendment
Adopted by the City Council on November 19, 2008.
- East Village / Lower East Side
Adopted by the City Council on November 19, 2008.
- Hudson Yards District/Clinton District Follow-Up Zoning Text Changes
Adopted by the City Council on September 4, 2008.
- 125th Street
Adopted by the City Council on April 30, 2008.
- Upper West Side
Adopted by the City Council on September 25, 2007.
- Far West Village
Adopted by the City Council on October 11, 2005.
- West Chelsea
Adopted by the City Council on June 23, 2005.
- Hudson Yards
Adopted by the City Council on January 19, 2005.
- Ladies Mile
Adopted by the City Council on August 12, 2004.
- Small Sidewalk Cafes Proposal
Adopted by the City Council on May 5, 2004.
- Frederick Douglass Boulevard
Adopted by the City Council on November 6, 2003.
- Hudson Square
Adopted by the City Council on August 19, 2003.
- East Harlem
Adopted by the City Council on June 24, 2003.
- Unenclosed Sidewalk Cafes
Adopted by the City Council on January 29, 2003.
- Chelsea Rezoning Becomes Effective
Adopted by the City Council on September 9, 1999.
** The Earlier Rezonings are no longer being updated. They are presented for reference purposes.
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| Archived Content ***: |
- Virtual Tour of Malcolm X Boulevard
Visit architectural, historical and cultural landmarks along and around this major street in the heart of Harlem as it appeared in 2001
- Manhattan Waterfront Greenway (2004)
A 32-mile route that circumnavigates the island of Manhattan
***Archived content is no longer being updated. It is presented for reference purposes.
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