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Good afternoon, and welcome to today's New York City Council vote for the Committee on Land Use.

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Chair, we are ready to begin.

Thank you.

Good afternoon and welcome to a meeting of the Committee on Land Use.

I am Councilmember Kevin Riley, Chair of this committee.

I want to welcome my esteemed colleagues joining me today, including Chair Lewis, Councilmember Caban, Majority Leader Breyu, Councilmember Ose, Salam Banks, and Carnacion, Justin Sanchez, Thomas Henry, and Minority Leader Carr.

We've also been joined by Councilmember Farius and Felder.

Today we are voting on three proposals referred by our zoning subcommittee, and I want to thank Chair Lewis and Chair Marte for their ongoing leadership on our subcommittees.

Today we will vote to approve with modifications LU 67, 68, 69, and 71 related to the monitor point proposal in Councilmember Wrestler's district in Brooklyn.

The proposal includes a zone and map amendment, zone and text amendment, large-scale special permit, and a change to the city map, which together will facilitate a waterfront mixed use development that will include a museum building for the USS Monitor and a market rate building with MIH affordable housing and a hundred percent affordable housing building.

I want to take a moment to reiterate some of the points made earlier at the subcommittee vote.

This is a one-of-a-kind project, providing the opportunity for predominantly publicly owned land to provide much needed affordable housing with the council's leadership to also incorporate neighborhood infrastructure and services to support this new housing, which is extremely important.

The majority of the development site consists of publicly owned land controlled by the MTA, which presents a unique opportunity to build hundreds of units of affordable housing that low income New Yorkers can actually afford in an area that has overwhelmingly amount of market race excuse me market rate housing.

This site also provides the opportunity to pair this affordable housing with much needed open space.

The proposed project will provide over one acre of open space while directly connecting to the larger waterfront open space in neighborhood and in the neighborhoods of Greenport, excuse me, Green Point, and Williamsburg.

Where affordable housing can be paired with community improvements, we should maximize the opportunity and amount of affordable housing built.

And this project with the council's modification does just that.

With our proposed modification, this project will provide an additional 202 permanently affordable apartments for a total of 662 affordable units.

The council's modifications will maintain the inclusion of over one acre of open space on site and the creation of a museum facility for USS Monitor.

As Chair Lewis noted earlier, the proposal initially involved five land use actions.

One of those a special permit to modify loading requirements has been withdrawn by the applicant.

So we will be voting on a motion to file LU 70.

There are four remaining actions.

First, a zone and map amendment to change an M3-1 district to a four to a R6 and R8 district with a C2-4 commercial overlay.

Second, a zone and text amendment to map a mandatory inclusionary housing area and to modify various regulations for waterfront blocks in the Green Point Williamsburg waterfront access plan and waivers available for large-scale general development.

Third, a special permit to establish a large scale general development with modified bulk and waterfront regulations.

And fourth, a change to the city map to remove a park designation from the western portion of the development site.

The council's modification will include to change the large scale special permit approval drawings to facilitate the increase in affordable units, as well as modifying the waiver associated with the required waterfront public access area to maximize the public open space on the site.

Today we are also voting to approve the modifications to LU 7372 through 77 regarding the Dwight Clinton Park North proposal, which involves two separate development sites in Councilmember Brewer's district in Manhattan.

The first known as 801 11th Avenue, and the second is known as 629 West 54th Street.

The 11th Avenue development will include approximately 477 apartments, including 125 permanently affordable units.

The West 54th Street development will include approximately 617 apartments, including 166 162 permanently affordable units.

These proposed developments are facilitated by floor area transfers pursuant to the special Hudson River Park District rules, which will also include approximately 29.7 million dollars in improvements and maintenance funds to the Hudson River Park Trust.

Both sites require similar zoning actions, a zoning map amendment, a zone and text amendment, and a zoning special permits to facilitate the floor areas transfers and modify various bulk regulations.

The council's modifications here will be to remove the street wall waiver applicable to the 11th Avenue site to provide a more consistent streetscape frontage and to reduce the building height of the West 54th Street site from 550 feet approved by the CPC to 520 feet to provide for a transition in building height from the 11th to the 12th Avenue to create less of a barrier along the waterfront.

I will now like to recognize any of my colleagues who would like to give remarks.

Seeing none, I now call for a vote with the support of the local members to approve of modifications LU 72, 73, and 74 for the Dwight Clinton Park North 11th Avenue Development, LU 75, 76, and 77 for the Dwight Clinton Park North, West 54th Street Development, and LU 67, 68, 69, and 71 for the monitor point proposal, and a motion to file LU 70, which was originally a part of the monitor point proposal, was no longer needed as a result of the council's modifications.

Will the clerk please call the roll?

Thank you.

Good afternoon, William Martin, committee clerk, roll call vote committee on land use.

All items are coupled, Chair Riley.

Aye.

Brooks Powers.

Thank you.

Kaban.

Aye.

Abrayu.

Aye.

O say.

I vote aye.

Salam.

Vote aye.

Banks.

Aye.

Zhuang.

Encarnacion.

I vote aye.

Sanchez.

Aye.

Thank you.

Thomas Henry.

Aye.

Carr.

Aye.

Not used to that word from me.

Aye.

Thank you, Council.

With a vote of 12 in the affirmative, zero in the negative, and no abstentions.

All items have been approved by the committee as described by the chair.

Thank you.

That concludes today's business.

I would like to thank the members of the public.