Atlantic Avenue Mixed-Use Plan Secures City Council Approval
On May 28th, the New York City Council approved a rezoning of a 21-block stretch along Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue corridor that includes parts of Crown Heights and Bedford- Stuyvesant. Previous zoning rules along Atlantic Avenue, one of borough’s most important east-west corridors, restricted the corridor to light manufacturing uses and had remained mostly unchanged since 1961 thereby preventing new housing and limited job creation. The passage of the Atlantic Avenue Mixed-Use Plan (AAMUP) opens the door to the construction of approximately 4,600 new residential units, of which 1,900 will be designated as income-restricted affordable housing units according to the press release by Mayor Adams’ Office. AAMUP is expected to create an estimated 2,800 permanent jobs; and as part of the plan, the city administration will invest $235 million to “improve open space and traffic safety, bolster tenant protections, and enhance other neighborhood infrastructure and amenities.” AAMUP is one of five rezoning proposals by the Adams Administration that collectively could produce more than 50,000 housing units over the next 15 years. The remaining plans include two in Queens — Jamaica Neighborhood Plan would rezone a 230-block area, enabling the construction of up to 12,000 new housing units including 4,000 permanently-restricted affordable units; and OneLIC Neighborhood Plan would create approximately 14,700 new housing units including 4,300 income-restricted affordable units, over 3.7 million square feet of commercial and community facility uses, and more than 14,400 jobs; the Midtown South Mixed-Use Plan in Manhattan covers a 42 block area roughly between 23rd and 40th Streets that would create 9,700 new housing units including up to 2,900 income-restricted affordable units; and more recently the community-focused planning process kicked-off for the White Plains Road Neighborhood Plan in the Bronx that covers a stretch of White Plains Road from Adee Avenue to the south and the Bronx/Mount Vernon border to the north, as well as intersecting portions of Gun Hill Road and East 233rd Street.
Source: https://www.nyc.gov/content/planning/pages/planning/neighborhood-planning