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The proposed development. Atlantic Vanderbilt Holdings
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BY BEN VERDE
Borough President Eric
Adams gave the thumbs down
to a proposed 18-story residential
building on the site of a
drive-thru McDonalds at Atlantic
and Vanderbilt avenues,
citing the project’s height and
density.
The project would contain
roughly 300 apartments, and
around 95 of them would be
designated below-market-rate,
while the ground fl oor space
would be slated for a dance studio.
Local community board
members in March blasted
the project for the potential to
add density to the surrounding
neighborhoods of Prospect
Heights, Clinton Hill, and
Crown Heights, while sparking
a conversation over the vision
for the long-debated M-Crown
Rezoning, and whether it will
bring about enough affordable
housing.
While representatives for
the developer behind the project,
IMC Architecture, has
argued for a higher density
in order to create more housing,
members of Community
Board 8 have been reluctant to
work outside of their vision for
the M-Crown rezoning, which
seeks to up-zone the industrial
swath of Crown Heights and
Prospect Heights while preserving
jobs in the area. The
board has voted to withhold
its advisory support of the proposal
until it is updated to refl
ect its vision for the area.
Their rezoning vision has
the backing of Borough President
Adams and local Councilmember
Laurie Cumbo. In a
letter announcing his advisory
disapproval of the rezoning,
Adams cited concerns about
the project’s density.
“Borough President Adams
generally supports the applicant’s
proposal to increase
density along wide commercial
streets in the M-Crown
district,” the letter says. “However,
he acknowledges that the
project represents a large jump
in density from what is permitted
in the underlying district.”
The development site is currently
a McDonald’s with a
surface-level parking lot and
drive-thru, at the corner of two
exceptionally wide streets, and
across the street from parts of
the Pacifi c Park megadevelopment.
Several other parcels
along largely undeveloped Atlantic
Avenue are seeking rezonings
to allow for residential
development. Many observers
expected that whatever decision
is ultimately made on the
Atlantic-Vanderbilt site will
become a model for those developments.
Adams’ ruling also includes
reccomendations that the project
be limited to 145 feet, and
commit to a deeper level of affordability
under the city’s
Mandatory Inclusionary Housing
program than currently
proposed.
While Adams’ opinion is
simply advisory, he is considered
a front-runner in last
month’s mayoral race, with absentee
ballots being tabulated
this month — which would
give him signifi cant authority
over decisions on rezonings
across the Five Boroughs.
Cumbo, as the city council
member for that area, has
more infl uence over the proposal.
Her offi ce has signaled
she will support the community
board’s decision as well.
NOT LOVIN’ IT
Adams rejects 18-story Atlantic rezoning
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