Fort Greene/Clinton Hill Rezoning Begins

Yesterday (Monday, April 24), the NYC Dept of City Planning (DCP) certified the proposed Fort Greene / Clinton Hill Rezoning, which has been in the works for years. This rezoning is called a "contextual rezoning" because it strives to ensure that future development will be built in a form that is consistent with the surrounding historic neighborhoods. According to DCP, this type of rezoning normally takes about seven months, starting yesterday.

As part of the rezoning, DCP is proposing to:

• Protect the brownstone neighborhoods by rezoning 85% of the area to R6B (2.0 FAR)
• Preserve 10 blocks in the Wallabout area to protect pre-Civil War homes; this area would be rezoned to R5B (1.35 FAR)
• Provide modest additional density along commercial corridors by rezoning Myrtle, Fulton, and Atlantic to R7A (3.45 FAR without the inclusionary bonus)
• Convert existing commercial overlay zones to C2-4 and reduce their depth to 100 feet. (C2-4 maintains a 2.0 FAR)
• Promote affordable housing along the higher density commercial corridors by giving a 33% density bonus (4.6 FAR) for projects that provide at least 20% affordable units.

To read more, visit DCP's website here.