Closing Bell: Planning OK's Carroll Gardens' Zoning Tweak
Curbed reports that the zoning text amendment that’ll limit the heights of new buildings and building additions on a bunch of streets in Carroll Gardens passed the City Planning Commission today. The Council will vote on the matter on July 23. CG Close to Going Tumor-Free After Planning Vote [Curbed] Photo by pardonmeforasking
Curbed reports that the zoning text amendment that’ll limit the heights of new buildings and building additions on a bunch of streets in Carroll Gardens passed the City Planning Commission today. The Council will vote on the matter on July 23.
CG Close to Going Tumor-Free After Planning Vote [Curbed]
Photo by pardonmeforasking
You don’t need to go higher to achieve greater density. Many of these single family homes, with two elderly people living on four floors of space, are being converted to multi-family residences. That achieves density (and small carbon footprints, too). It is too bad you don’t see the virtue in preserving historic neighborhoods and low rises. Read Jane Jacobs and find out what you are missing.
What irrational about appreciating a great neighborhood?
“The height limits do not bar density – they just protect the ambience of the place and make it more livable.” – No, by reducing the height you are almost inherently reducing the density. On NY sized lots, how wouldn’t this be the case?
On the larger point – there is no neighborhood more self absorbed and irrational than the people of CG. And if Walentas is smart enough to con DOB into approving the bulkheads, that’s on DOB, so point your anger thataway.
Congratulations to the Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association and all the surrounding neighbors for their time and care in protecting the beauty of this wonderful neighborhood. The height limits do not bar density – they just protect the ambience of the place and make it more livable. If people want to live in high rises, there is lots of choices – they can go to Manhattan or check out the soon to be constructed 30 and 20 story towers to be built inside Brooklyn Bridge Park – now that is density! But the local community association deserves a lot of credit for really pushing this through, with no thanks to politicians like DeBlasio either. Oh, and DeBlasio also supports real estate developers who figure out ways to build those super-sized roof top bulkheads/staircases that skirt the laws on allowable height limits. But good citizens are figuring out ways to stop those work-arounds, too.
yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa boyyyyyyyyyyy
curse you suv driving limo hugging environment hating suburbia transplants!! nyc and mother earth needs density!!! lower carbon imprint!!
Does anyone know if zoning height regulations in an R6B zone (40′ street wall with 50′ total height) include any roof deck walls/railings or the structure that would house the stairs going to the roof?