Project Description
The Applicant, the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), on behalf of the project sponsor, is requesting approval of several discretionary actions that would affect 15 tax lots on Block 1557 in the Borough of Brooklyn, Community District 3(the Development Site). The discretionary actions (collectively, the Proposed Actions) include: (i) Urban Development Action Area Program (UDAAP) designation and disposition of 12 city-owned lots (Lots 3, 4, 23, 26, 28, and 31 through 37); (ii) a zoning map amendment to rezone the Development Site from an M1-1/R7D zoning district to an R8A zoning district with a C2-4 commercial overlay to a depth of 100 feet from Atlantic Avenue; (iii) zoning text amendments to modify the Zoning Resolution of the City of New York (ZR) §123-00 Special Mixed Use District and Appendix F of the ZR to designate a Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) area coterminous with the Development Site; and (iv) an amendment to the Saratoga Square Urban Renewal Plan to allow residential and community facility uses on 12 City-owned lots identified as urban renewal sites within the Development Site and designated for industrial use. Approval of the Proposed Actions would facilitate the construction of a 14- story, approximately 263,693-gross-square-foot (gsf) mixed-use building (the Proposed Project) on the Development Site.