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- 125th Street Corridor
- 2nd Avenue Subway
- 421-a tax incentive program
- 980 Madison Tower
- Access to the Region's Core (ARC)
- Albee Square Mall Tower
- Atlantic Yards
- Bayside Rezoning
- Bayswater/Far Rockaway Rezoning
- Bedford Stuyvesant Rezoning
- Briarwood Rezoning
- Bricktown Centre
- Brig Redevelopment, Wallabout Brooklyn
- Brooklyn Academy of Music Cultural District
- Brooklyn Greenway
- Brooklyn Navy Yard
- Bush Terminal Park
- Clinton Hill/Ft. Greene Rezoning
- College Point Police Academy
- Columbia University Expansion
- Columbus Circle
- Con Ed Site Redevelopment
- Coney Island Development
- Cooper Square Urban Renewal Area
- Cross Harbor Freight Tunnel
- Domino Sugar Factory
- Downtown Brooklyn
- Downtown JFK-LIRR Link
- DUMBO Rezoning
- Dyker Heights/Fort Hamilton Rezoning
- East River Plaza
- East River Science Park
- East River Waterfront
- East Side Access
- Far Rockaway and Mott Creek Rezoning
- Far West Village Rezoning
- Federal Housing Policy
- Fieldston Landmark Designation
- Flushing Development
- Fordham Expansion
- Forest Hills Rezoning
- Fresh Kills Master Plan
- Fulton Street Transit Center
- Gansevoort Marine Transfer Station
- Garment District Rezoning
- Gateway Center at Bronx Terminal Market
- General Theological Seminary Tower (Chelsea)
- Governors Island
- Gowanus Development
- Greenpoint-Williamsburg Rezoning
- High Line Redevelopment + Whitney Museum
- HUB Retail and Office Center
- Hudson Railyards
- Hudson River Park
- Hudson Yards Rezoning & Development
- Hunter College Health-Professions Tower
- Hunts Point Vision Plan
- Inwood/Sherman Creek Waterfront Rezoning
- Jamaica, Queens Development and Rezoning
- Javits Convention Center Expansion
- JetBlue JFK Terminal
- Kingsbridge Armory
- Kissena Park Rezoning
- Lincoln Center Redevelopment
- Long Island City
- Lower East Side Rezoning
- Lower Manhattan Development
- Maspeth - Woodside Rezoning
- Mets Stadium Construction
- Middle Village-Glendale Rezoning
- Midwood Rezoning
- Mott Haven School Campus
- Moynihan Station
- Museum for African Art
- New Madison Square Garden
- New Rego Park, Queens Mall
- New York City Building Code
- New York City Hospital Redevelopment
- New York Diamond Tower
- New York Historical Society Tower
- No. 7 Line Extension
- North Brother Island
- North Tribeca Rezoning
- NYC 2012 Olympic Bid
- NYU Development
- One Madison Ave Clocktower
- P.S. 64 Redevelopment
- PlaNYC 2030
- Plaza Hotel Redevelopment
- Policy Developments - Landmarks
- Public Place
- Queens Botanical Garden
- Queens Plaza
- Queens West
- Randalls Island Water Park and Playing Fields
- Red Hook Cruise Terminal
- Red Hook Development
- Renaissance Ballroom and Renaissance Casino
- Seventh Regiment Armory (Park Ave.)
- Silvercup West
- SoHo Sanitation Garage
- Solid Waste Management Plan
- South Bronx Jail Plan
- South Ferry Terminal Project
- South Street Seaport Redevelopment
- South Village Historic District
- Springfield Gardens Rezoning
- St. Vincent’s Expansion
- Stapleton Waterfront District
- Starrett City
- Staten Island NASCAR Track
- Staten Island North Shore Light Rail
- Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village
- Sunnyside Yards Platform
- The Caledonia (Chelsea)
- Trump Soho Hotel Condominiums
- Union Square Redesign
- Union-Utopia Rezoning
- United Nations Renovation
- Upper West Side Rezoning Proposal
- Uptown New York (East Harlem)
- Van Cortlandt Park Filtration Plant
- Via Verde - New Housing New York Legacy Project
- Washington Square Park Redesign
- West-Park Presbyterian Church Tower
- White Plains Courtyard
- Whitestone Rezoning
- Willets Point Development
- World Trade Center Redevelopment
- Yankee Stadium Construction
Bayside Rezoning
On April 12, 2005, the City Council approved the Department's rezoning proposal for Bayside and the new R2A district both of which are now in effect. The goals of the Bayside rezoning proposal are to preserve the area's established detached and semi-detached character and to ensure that future residential development is consistent with that character. Councilman Tony Avella says the Bayside rezoning "lays a foundation for other low-density neighborhoods in Queens." The proposal has three principal components:
1) Establishment of a new citywide R2A zoning district, based on the current R2 district but with new floor area allowances, lot coverage requirements, and revised height and setback regulations;
2) Rezoning of much of the Bayside area from R2, R3-1, R3-2, R4 and R4A to lower-density or contextual zoning districts (R1-2, R2A, R3A, R3X, R3-1, R4-1, R4B);
3) Rezoning of selected C1-2 selected commercial overlays, including removing overlays on two block fronts and modifying selected C1-2 and C2-3 overlays by reducing their depth from 150 feet to 100 feet.
27,000 properties in Bayside and its surrounding neighborhoods are eligible for R2A rezoning.
Owner of Bayswater Property Upset At Rezoning
Sunday, March 26, 2006 | New York Sun | Topic: Land Use
It is challenging for a layperson to decipher the cryptic zoning codes that govern the city's buildable space, and it is even harder to imagine that minute changes to those regulations made in a small room in Lower Manhattan can have a real, quantifiable effect, miles away.
Overdevelopment: planning, not rezoning, is the answer
Tuesday, October 18, 2005 | Gotham Gazette | Topic: Land Use
On the topic of rezoning as a planning tool -- particularly in light of recent neighborhood downzoning proposals -- Tom Angotti writes, "the real problem with downzoning to stop overdevelopment, or upzoning to encourage development, is that they both avoid any serious planning...They don’t allow local residents and businesses to address serious concerns they have with everything from housing needs to traffic, because zoning regulations are limited to use and density controls."
In a fast-growing city, some neighborhoods say slow down
Monday, October 10, 2005 | New York Times | Topic: Land Use
Since 2002, downzonings for about 3,600 blocks have been approved or are under review. While downzoning may help "preserve neighborhood character," does it undermine efforts to add affordable housing to the city?
Bayside Councilman urges building permit rule change
Thursday, August 11, 2005 | Other | Topic: Land Use
City Councilmember Tony Avella is seeking to stop issuance of building permits between the time zoning changes are approved by the Department of Buildings and the new laws are passed in City Council.
Bayside homeowners surprised at stop work orders
Thursday, May 26, 2005 | Queens Chronicle | Topic: Land Use
About 100 homeowners in Bayside, Queens were surprised to find that the city had issued stop work orders on their building permits for home improvements after the City Council approved the neighborhood rezoning. An old law requires that, after a rezoning, work is reviewed by the Department of Buildings to determine whether it is in compliance and can proceed, no matter how far into the project it is.
Bayside rezoning is approved by City Council
Thursday, April 14, 2005 | Queens Chronicle | Topic: Land Use
The 350-block Bayside, Queens rezoning plan was approved by the City Council today. Of interest to other low density neighborhoods around the city is the creation of the R2A zone--a low density contextual district.
Bayside, Springfield Gardens rezoning heads for final vote
Thursday, April 07, 2005 | Queens Chronicle | Topic: Land Use
The Bayside and Springfield Gardens rezoning plans made it through the city's Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises with little opposition. The plans go before the full City Countil on April 12th. The proposed changes--primarily intended to ensure new developments fit with the scale and character of each neighbrohood--affect nearly 350 blocks in Bayside and 68 blocks in Springfield Gardens.
Less is more in rezoning plan
Monday, March 14, 2005 | New York Newsday | Topic: Land Use
This article summarizes actions taking place on Queens downzoning proposals this week. On Tuesday, March 15, City Council will hold a public hearing on the Springfield Gardens rezoning. On Wednesday, March 16, City Planning Commission members will cast their votes on the Bayside rezoning.
College Point residents hear new rezoning plans for area
Thursday, February 10, 2005 | Queens Chronicle | Topic: Land Use
Based on the success of the Bayside, Queens rezoning, other Queens communities may follow. The next looks to be College Point. Paul Graziano, an urban planning consultant studied 240 blocks and 4,800 lots in College Point. He found that the residential problems are similar to Bayside, but that historic preservation, industrial sites, and waterfront planning would present new challenges.
In Queens, the houses are growing and growing
Sunday, January 30, 2005 | New York Times | Topic: Land Use
On block after block of northeast Queens, houses are growing in size, as they are in other sections of the city with a suburban feel, altering the landscape, increasing property values, recasting mortgage choices, calling into question old zoning codes and raising the ire of many neighbors.
Queens Community Board 11 approves Bayside rezoning
Friday, January 07, 2005 | New York Daily News | Topic: Land Use
Community Board 11 voted 27 to 6 to approve a new zoning designation -- R2A -- for Bayside, Queens. The Community Board also voted 25 to 8 in favor of rezoning 230 other blocks. These changes are designed to restrict the construction of oversized single-family homes in the community.
Bayside rezoning expected to halt "McMansions"
Sunday, January 02, 2005 | New York Daily News | Topic: Land Use
The Bayside rezoning is, "the largest low-density rezoning initiative going on in the borough of Queens," said John Young, director of the Queens office of the Department of City Planning. The zoning proposal is designed to curb unwanted development while limiting the number of existing homes that would not comply with the new zoning code.