BY BEN VERDE
Crown Heights civic gurus
voted to oppose a rezoning
scheme that would make
way for a nine-story mixeduse
building on Grand Avenue
on Nov. 14
Members of Community
Board Eight voted 27-to-1 to
withhold support of the proposal
until they get a binding
agreement to dedicate a portion
of the building’s 9,000-
square-feet ground fl oor for
either light industrial use
or a community room, with
one community member saying
the developer needs to
pony up some concessions to
merit the windfall in building
rights.
“What you’re doing is actually
making an exchange
that gives the developer signifi
cantly more than what
the community is getting,”
said Prospect Heights resident
Peter Krashes.
The developer, Elie Pariente,
is seeking a rezoning
that would pave the way for
construction of a building
near Pacifi c Street, which
would house 64 residential
units — including 16 units of
affordable housing — and the
aforementioned ground-fl oor
retail.
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The community board’s
land-use subcommittee voted
9-to-4 in favor in the rezoning
proposal on Nov. 7, before the
full board switched gears and
demanded the additional concession
in exchange for their
endorsement.
The board’s fi nal vote refl
ects the group’s ongoing
efforts to upzone parts of
Crown Heights in an effort to
promote the creation of industrial
manufacturing jobs. The
proposed neighborhood rezoning,
dubbed the M–Crown
rezoning, would allow developers
to build higher, but require
them to set aside some
space for light industrial use.
The development scheme
as proposed by Pariente
would exceed the maximum
building envelope envisioned
by board members in their
larger rezoning proposal, and
one civic guru expressed concern
that approving this application
without altering the
density would invite other developers
to do the same.
“You’re setting a precedent
for how you’re doing
this,” said Krashes.
But another land-use buff
said the added density was a
worthy bargaining chip to extract
the added benefi ts from
the developer.
“It’s a bigger pie,” said Gib
Veconi.
And Pariente himself said
the concession was no skin
off his back, and agreed to set
aside space for the community’s
desired uses at his rezoning
application winds its way
through the city’s lengthy
public-review process.
“At this point whatever
mechanism the community
board and everyone feels is
necessary to make sure that
this restriction gets enforced
is okay by me,” the developer
said.
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The rezoning would make way for a nine-story, 64-unit building.
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Land use gurus oppose
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