The City Planning Commission held a hearing yesterday on a proposed rezoning of the area between Third and Fourth avenues and 9th and 13th streets to encourage contextual development and prevent more oddities like the recent erection of a 26-story residential building behind the facade of a church for a New York University dormitory.
Seven people testified in favor of the proposed and none against it, according to an article Wednesday by Katharine Jose at capitalnewyork.com.
The proposed area that would be rezoned is adjacent to the western edge of a 2008 rezoning in the East Village.
"The current zoning is literally destroying the area," declared Elizabeth Finkelstein, representing the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, the article said. She claimed that it permitted NYU to building a "mammoth and woefully out-of-scale" dorm that "joins several other grossly out-of-scale building," the article said.
A spokesperson for Assemblywoman Deborah Glick told the commission that the existing zoning "will diminish cohesiveness" and a spokesman for State Senator Tom Duane said that the rezoning would help the neighborhood keep "continuity," the article said.
Community Board 3 unanimously approved the proposed rezoning, which would limit building heights to 120 feet and provide incentives for developers to provide affordable housing.
The commission did not vote on the proposal.
Seven people testified in favor of the proposed and none against it, according to an article Wednesday by Katharine Jose at capitalnewyork.com.
The proposed area that would be rezoned is adjacent to the western edge of a 2008 rezoning in the East Village.
"The current zoning is literally destroying the area," declared Elizabeth Finkelstein, representing the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, the article said. She claimed that it permitted NYU to building a "mammoth and woefully out-of-scale" dorm that "joins several other grossly out-of-scale building," the article said.
A spokesperson for Assemblywoman Deborah Glick told the commission that the existing zoning "will diminish cohesiveness" and a spokesman for State Senator Tom Duane said that the rezoning would help the neighborhood keep "continuity," the article said.
Community Board 3 unanimously approved the proposed rezoning, which would limit building heights to 120 feet and provide incentives for developers to provide affordable housing.
The commission did not vote on the proposal.
Architecture Critic
Carter Horsley
Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.
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