Planners released new details of a proposed rezoning on the East Harlem neighborhood in New York City.
"When city planners unveiled the new zoning for East Harlem at a community board meeting last month, neighbors wanted to know how many new apartments would grow, and how many people could potentially be displaced," according to an article by Rebecca Baird-Remba. "Now the city has revealed estimates of how the rezoning would reshape the upper Manhattan neighborhood in a new set of zoning documents [pdf]."
The new zoning would affect 69 parcels around the neighborhood in addition to a city-owned, vacant block between Park Avenue, Madison Avenue, East 111th and East 112th Streets. Last Planetizen heard from the East Harlem rezoning effort, parking requirements were on the chopping block.
"Without the East 111th Street site, planners expect the rezoning to generate 3,500 apartments and draw 8,420 new residents. Future developments would also add 110,133 square feet of retail and 138,328 square feet of office space," reports Baird-Remba, among other development projections. The plan also calls for "4,162 new apartments, 140,133 square feet of retail and 138,328 square feet of office space" on the massive city owned block.
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