The Department of City Planned presented plans last night at a meeting of Community Board 3 in Brooklyn for a rezoning of 140 blocks in the northern section of Bedford Stuyvesant, according to an article today at brownstoner.com.

In 2007, the city rezoned the southern section of the neighborhood.

As with the earlier rezoning, the article said, "the point of this one is to try and ensure more contextual new development."

"The rezoning boundaries," the article continued, "run from Quincy to Flushing and Classon to Broadway. The proposed new zoning is for R6B and R6A on avenues and wide streets, which limits developments to seven stories. R7A is planned for avenues and wide streets near transit, which allows for a max height of 8 stories and offers incentives for affordable housing. Myrtle Avenue will be zoned R7D, which carries a limit of 10 stories and requires ground-floor retail or community facilities. And new zoning was proposed for Broadway, C4-4A, with apartments (at a max of 10 stories) set back from the elevated train tracks and incentives for affordable housing. Commercial overlays currently exist on Dekalb, Bedford, Myrtle and Lewis, but the gaps in the overlays will be filled in."

"The audience expressed a lot of concern," the article said, "that after the rezoning, the city-owned parking lots at the Tompkins and Sumner Houses would be redeveloped. The city is indeed looking at those lots as possible development opportunities, but reps said they would find ways to replace the lost spots. (Residents seemed doubtful that underground parking, which was suggested, would actually happen.)"

"One resident," the article continued, "expressed concern that the new zoning would limit the amount of housing that can be constructed, thus resulting in a shortage of low-income housing. Overall, the board continued to stress concerns about out-of-context developments like the one on Kosciusko..., and the need to limit the scale of new developments."