Good morning.

Today is March 24th, and I would like to call the meeting for development, planning, and sustainability to order.

Madam Clerk, can you please call the role?

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Thank you.

Members, we have two zoning pieces today.

Madam Clerk, do we have anyone sign up for public comments?

Okay, we're gonna start with ordinance number 1521-2025 by Council Member Spencer.

An ordinance expanding the West 117th Street Design Review District to include additional parcels north and south of Detroit Avenue between West 116th Street and West 107th Street, and removing residential parcels of land along West 117th Street, south of Tower Thornton Road, and north of Lorraine Avenue.

Xavier.

Thank you for having me.

And today we're presenting uh Map Change 2683.

And so uh I'm gonna start off explaining the uh addition to the design review district.

And so uh the next few slides you're gonna see are gonna be centered around Detroit Avenue, uh and really the length between West 107th Street and West 116th Street.

And so we're proposing to uh add this uh area onto the currently existing West 17th Street Design Review District.

And the purposes here are really to uh save a lot of the uh context and the urban fabric along a transit corridors.

And so as I just mentioned, we're speaking about uh we're focusing on the area of Detroit Avenue between uh West 107th and West Hundred Sixteenth Street.

Uh next you're gonna see uh a bunch of context photos going up and down the corridor to really uh show you the urban fabric that we're hoping to retain.

And so um, you can see there's a lot of commercial uses, a few uh apartment buildings, some mixed use uh uses as well along the corridor.

Um so uh another purpose of design review districts uh is to really uh allow city planning um to have more oversight uh when there's demolitions being proposed or additions uh and things of that nature, changes to the exterior being proposed.

And really, uh as I mentioned, uh the goal here is to save a lot of this urban fabric that you see along the transit corridor.

Uh very straightforward um proposal here.

Uh there's the excerpt of Detroit Avenue we're speaking to add to the design review district.

Uh the next few slides you're gonna see are gonna be the parcels that we're uh proposing to remove from the design review district.

And so a lot of these streets are mainly residential streets uh between uh going up and down West 100 first to West 19th, as well as art interest, good Cloverdale and West 116th Street.

And um really uh this is helpful for the residents as it uh takes away an additional uh step of review when uh resident is simply trying to uh you know uh repair their roof, um, do some extra work on their siding and things of that nature.

And so here's a map where you can see the entire design review district of West 17th and in blue and purple, and then the red highlight are the uh areas that are being removed.

And so these next uh photos you're gonna see are gonna be the context that we're proposing to remove.

Uh this slide we had uh pulled some data uh explaining a lot of the permits that we're coming through.

Um and so you can imagine, you know, with these 52 examples that we have there, the exterior permits, uh it adds more time for the resident to really get through the process of permitting.

And so here's uh the first chunk that we're proposing to remove here, uh up and down the streets.

I'll show you are mainly single family, two-family, a few four plexus.

Um this next section is uh West 116th Street.

Again, a lot of single family, two-family uh uh uses along this corridor next uh West 117th Street.

Uh this portion of 117th is mainly residential.

Uh this portion, we are keeping that chunk that's highlighted in yellow there.

Uh and so you could see to remain right.

And so these are those uh larger apartment complexes.

Um things like this, you know, we'd want to see the demolition proposal come through city planning with some type of you know plan for redevelopment.

Uh and so that's the main purpose there uh for the removals, as you see on the screen.

Uh I thought I did have one.

Okay, yeah.

Here you can see on the left is the Detroit Avenue section that we're adding to the design review district on the right, the red highlights are the parcels that we're removing from the design.

Oh, sorry, design review district.

That about sums it up from Ed Change uh 2683.

Um again, really just we're trying to preserve that urban fabric along the transit corridor on Detroit Avenue and removing a lot of the single family, two-family residential uh parcels from design review districts in residential streets.

Got it, thank you, Xavier.

That's um near Cadell, correct?

Uh correct, yeah.

I mean, Cadell is uh a bit more to the west uh down Detroit Avenue.

Um when you say redeveloping the area where all the apartment buildings, are they demolishing them?

And what are they doing in that area?

Yeah, so I mean the the purpose here is really to give city planning more oversight when somebody does propose a demolition.

Um I'm not uh aware of any current plans that are major going on in this section of Detroit Avenue, but uh really the the goal here is to make sure that we retain a lot of that urban fabric and don't just allow demolitions um with without actually seeing some type of good redevelopment proposal to to keep that that fabric consistent.

Got it.

Any questions from my colleagues?

Slive.