{"id":75,"date":"2010-05-24T22:51:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T01:53:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-12-31T19:59:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T00:59:14","slug":"new-commercial-zoning-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/2010\/05\/new-commercial-zoning-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Commercial zoning in the latest draft proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jimmy Van Bramer’s staff got an updated version of the zoning proposal, dated May 19, and passed the maps on to Christian Murray, who posted them<\/a> on his Sunnyside Post blog. <\/p>\n

The main differences I could find between the February maps that I posted previously<\/a> and these May maps all relate to commercial zoning along Greenpoint and Roosevelt Avenues.<\/p>\n

To understand this, you need to know about commercial overlays. These are zoning districts that are established along avenues for retail businesses serving the neighborhood. They only extend 100-200 feet back from the street. The districts that start with C1- are meant to be 1-2 story buildings, and the ones that start with C2- are a bit higher, and the ones starting with C4- are significantly higher. The second number indicates parking minima, where the ones that end in -1 require lots of parking, those that end in -2 a bit more, and so on.<\/p>\n

These avenues currently (PDF<\/a>) have a commercial overlay C1-2 from 41st to 44th Streets and from 59th to 65th Street, and C2-2 from 50th to 58th and from 65th to the BQE. There is also a district (not an overlay) from 47th Avenue to half a block north of Queens Boulevard and from 44th through 48th Streets that is zoned C4-2.<\/p>\n

The February revision of the proposal (PDF<\/a>) would have changed the overlay from 41st to 44th to C1-3, the overlay from 52nd through 59th and from 65th to the BQE to C2-4, and the overlay from 59th through 65th to C1-4. The area from 47th Avenue to just north of Queens Boulevard was split into a C4-5X zone along Queens Boulevard and a C4-4A zone along Greenpoint and 47th Avenues.<\/p>\n

The May 19 draft that Christian posted does away with the commercial zone along Queens Boulevard. Now the area south of the Boulevard is a solid R6A district with a C1-4 overlay along Greenpoint Avenue. That C1-4 overlay continues along Roosevelt Avenue, pretty much all the way to 65th Street.<\/p>\n

Overall, I think this change is good. In C1-4 districts, parking requirements are waived unless at least 40 spaces are required. For a supermarket or other retail store, it would have to be at least 40,000 square feet (two-thirds the size of the Stop and Shop on 48th Street) to require any parking at all. That’s an improvement over the C1-3 district, which would require 25 parking spaces to be built for a supermarket over 7500 square feet. Ideally, I would prefer C1-5 which has almost no parking requirement at all, but I’d much rather work to get the R4 and R4-1 districts upgraded to R5B. I might prefer more commercial density, but I’m focusing on parking in this discussion.<\/p>\n

I’m planning to attend the meeting this Wednesday from 6:30 to 8:30 at Sunnyside Community Services. If you’re planning to go and want to coordinate with me, send me an email or leave a comment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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