Thursday, June 25, 2026, 1 p.m. (New York City time), Council Chambers - City Hall
Committee: Committee on Land Use
0:10 , ? Good afternoon, everyone
0:10 settle down, please. Going to.
0:14 Good afternoon and welcome
0:14 to today's New York City
0:15 council vote for the committee
0:17 on land use at this time
0:20 police silence electronic
0:21 devices and normally approach
0:22 today is at any time chair. We
0:23 are ready to begin. Thank you.
0:31 Good afternoon and welcome t
0:31 oa meeting of the committee on
0:33 land use. I am Council Member
0:34 Kevin Riley, chair of this
0:35 committee I want to welcome my
0:37 esteemed colleagues joining me
0:38 today, including chair lewis
0:41 council koban majority leader
0:43 brad Council Member will say
0:45 Salaam Banks and kanosh Justin
0:48 Sanchez, Thomas, Henry and
0:49 minority leader car
0:55 . We've also been joined by
0:55 council ferry ous and Felder.
0:57 Today we are voting on three
1:00 proposals referred by hours
1:00 zone and subcommittee, and I
1:02 want to thank chair lewis and
1:03 chair mart for their ongoing
1:05 leadership on our
1:08 subcommittee's today we are
1:08 vote to approve with
1:09 modifications are you? 67 68
1:13 69 And 71 related to the
1:14 monitor point proposal and
1:15 Council Member wrestlers
1:16 nzone, a text amendment large
1:23 scale special permit and the
1:24 change to the City map, which
1:26 together will facilitate a
1:28 waterfront mix use development
1:29 that would include a building
1:34 for the monitor and a marke
1:35 trate building with me. H
1:37 affordable housing and a
1:40 hundred% affordable housing
1:40 building. I want to take a
1:41 moment to reiterate some of
1:43 the points made earlier at the
1:46 subcommittee vote. This is a
1:47 one of a kind project,
1:48 providing an opportunity for
1:51 predominantly publicly own
1:52 land to provide much needed
1:54 affordable housing with the
1:57 council's leadership to also
1:59 incorporate neighborhood
1:59 infrastructure and services t
2:00 osupport this New housing,
2:01 which is extremely important
2:05 the majority of the
2:05 lopment site consists of
2:07 publicly owned land controlled
2:09 by the which presents a unique
2:11 opportunity to build hundreds
2:12 of units of affordable housing
2:14 that low income New yorkers
2:15 can actually afford in an area
2:18 that has overwhelmingly amount
2:20 of market race scrutiny,
2:21 market rate housing. This site
2:25 also provides the opportunity
2:26 to pare this affordable
2:27 housing with much needed open
2:29 space. The proposed project
2:31 will provide over one acre of
2:33 open space while directly
2:35 connected to the larger
2:36 waterfront open space in
2:39 neighborhood in in the
2:40 neighborhoods of greenport.
2:41 It's going the greenpoint and
2:44 williamsburg, where affordable
2:45 housing can be paired with
2:46 community improvements, we
2:48 should maximize the
2:48 opportunity and amount of
2:50 affordable housing built in
2:51 this project with the
2:52 council's modification does
2:56 just that with our proposed
2:56 modification this project will
2:58 provide an additional 202
3:01 permanently affordable
3:01 apartments for a total of 662
3:06 affordable units, the
3:07 council's modifications will
3:08 maintain the inclusion of over
3:10 one acre of open space on site
3:12 and the creation of a museum
3:14 facility for monitor as chair
3:17 s, lewis noted earlier the
3:20 proposal initially involved
3:21 five land use action. One of
3:23 those a special permit t
3:25 omodify loading requirements
3:26 has been withdrawn by the
3:27 applicant. So we will be
3:29 voting on a motion to file l u
3:33 70 there are four remaining
3:35 actions first to change anne
3:40 em Eric six and our eight
3:43 district with a c two. That's
3:46 for commercial overly
3:46 . Second zone in text
3:48 amendment to mapping mandatory
3:49 inclusionary housing area and
3:52 to modify various regulations
3:54 for waterfront blocks in the
3:56 greenpoint williamsburg
3:57 waterfront access plan and
3:59 waivers available for large
4:01 scale general development
4:03 .third, a special permit to
4:05 establish the large scale
4:06 general development with
4:08 modified bulk and waterfront
4:11 regulations and forth a change
4:12 to the City map to remove a
4:14 park designation from the
4:16 western portion of the
4:17 development site, the council
4:19 modification would include t
4:20 ochange the large scale special
4:22 permit approval drawings to
4:25 facilitate the increase in
4:27 affordable units as well as
4:29 modifying the waiver
4:30 associated with the required
4:31 waterfront public access area
4:33 to maximize the public open
4:34 space on the site.
4:38 Today we are also voting to
4:39 approve the modifications t
4:43 otwo through 77 regard to
4:46 dwight clinton park at norfolk
4:48 proposal, which involves two
4:49 separate development sites and
4:50 Council Member brewers
4:51 district in manhattan, the
4:54 first known as eight on 1
4:55 eleventh avenue and the secon
4:56 dis known as 6 29, west 54
5:00 street, the eleventh avenu
5:01 edevelopment would include
5:02 approximately 477 apartments
5:05 ,including 125 permanently
5:08 affordable units, the west 54
5:09 street development would
5:11 include approximately 617
5:14 apartments and cooling 16662
5:17 permanently affordable units.
5:19 These proposed developments
5:20 are facilitated by floor area
5:23 transfers pursuant to the
5:24 special Hudson river park
5:28 district rules, which will
5:29 also include approximately
5:32 $29.7 million in improvements
5:33 and maintenance funds to the
5:34 Hudson river park trust both
5:36 sides requires similar zone in
5:40 actions his only map amendment
5:40 his own and text amendment in
5:42 the and special permits to
5:45 facilitate the floor areas,
5:46 transfers and modified various
5:50 bulk regulations, the
5:51 council's modifications here
5:51 will be removed. Remove the
5:53 street wall waiver applicable
5:55 to the eleventh avenue site t
5:57 oprovide a more consistent
6:01 streetscape frontage. Answer
6:01 reduced the building height of
6:02 the west 54 street site from
6:05 550 feet approved by the to
6:10 520 feet to provide for a
6:10 transition in building heights
6:13 from the eleventh to th
6:14 etwelfth avenue to create less
6:15 of a barrier along the
6:18 waterfront. I.
6:18 Will now like to recognize
6:19 any of my colleagues who would
6:20 like to give remarks seeing
6:23 none. I now call for a vote
6:25 with the support of the local
6:26 members to approve of
6:28 modifications. L use 72 73 and
6:32 74 for the dwight clinton park
6:33 north eleventh avenue
6:36 development l u 75 76 and 77
6:38 for the dwight clinton park
6:41 north west 54 street
6:42 development and 67 68 69 an
6:47 d71 for the monitor point
6:49 proposal and emotion to fil
6:52 ewas originally a part of the
6:53 martyr point proposal was no
6:54 longer needed as a result of
6:56 the council's modifications
6:59 .will the clerk. Please call
7:00 the.
7:00 Roll you good afternoon
7:01 ,william martin committee clark
7:03 roll call vote committee on
7:04 land use. All items are
7:07 coupled chair. Riley, I. Lewis
7:12 , I
7:13 . Brooks Powers. Thank you,
7:22 Cabán.
7:22 I I
7:24 . Oh, say.
7:24 I vote I salam vote Banks I
7:40 swang Encarnación, I vote I
7:46 Sanchez.
7:46 I thank you.
7:50 Thomas. Henry I car I for
8:04 not used to that word for me
8:04 .I thank you, counsel with a
8:08 vote of 12 in the affirmative,
8:10 zero in the negative and no
8:11 abstentions. All items hav
8:12 ebeen approved by the committee
8:14 , as described by the chair
8:15 . Thank you. That concludes
8:17 his business. I would like to
8:17 thank the members of