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“...in total, we estimate about, 4,600 new homes, 800,000 square feet for commercial or community facility space. Over, 2,800 new jobs would be created as part of this plan,” said Jonah, a team leader in the Brooklyn office of the Department of City Planning, during the presentation. Jonah (DCP) described the plan area as generally bounded by Vanderbilt Avenue to the west, Nostrand Avenue to the east, Bergen Street to the south and Atlantic Avenue to the north, and said the plan responds to long‑running pressure for housing and commercial growth along Atlantic Avenue.

The plan includes a zoning map amendment that would rezone a large M1‑1 manufacturing area to several residential and mixed‑use districts with the greatest densities concentrated on Atlantic Avenue. DCP said the rezoning would be accompanied by a special district with additional rules — for example, mandatory building setbacks to widen sidewalks and requirements for active ground‑floor uses — and an optional open‑space bonus intended to incentivize new public open space in exchange for additional development capacity subject to city review.

HPD described housing strategies that pair the rezoning with mandatory inclusionary housing (MIH) on private sites and several public‑site developments. “Most of the new affordable housing in the AMUP area, actually over 1,000 units is going to be part of the mandatory inclusionary housing program, or MIH,” said Sarit Plotkin, director of neighborhood planning at HPD. HPD also outlined six public or city‑owned sites identified for development or redevelopment, including Dean Park Edge (51 affordable homes for older New Yorkers targeted to around 50% AMI), Bergen Green (an 11‑story mixed‑use project with affordable units and a cultural center), and a Department of Education parking lot at 457 Nostrand that HPD said could yield 160–200 affordable homes with community‑facility space.

HPD also described tenant‑protection and anti‑displacement strategies. The department said it would allocate $3 million to a “partners in preservation” program to fund local community organizations for tenant organizing and anti‑harassment work, and that it expects a $7 million reinstatement for legal services addressing landlord harassment and eviction defense as part of the plan’s complementary measures. HPD also cited a $10 million citywide homeowner help desk and expanded low‑interest home‑repair loans for eligible homeowners.

Board members who spoke in the hearing expressed mixed but conditional support. Yrsa Weatherspoon of Community Board 8 said, “we at Community Board 8 support the AimUp with conditions,” citing streetscape improvements, tenant protections, a workforce program and concerns about open space and shadows. Anthony Busser, chair of Community Board 3, said his board likewise supported the plan with conditions and urged stronger front‑end community input and developer commitments to maintenance funds for new open space.

DCP and HPD said the plan has already gone through community‑board review and a public comment period on the draft environmental impact statement; next steps identified by presenters included City Planning Commission review followed by City Council action. Presenters said written testimony would be accepted through the borough president’s published deadline and that agencies would continue outreach and technical work in response to community comments.

The hearing did not include a formal borough board vote on the plan at that meeting; several community boards had submitted positions as part of the public review. Board chairs asked for additional detail about open‑space proposals, public‑site timelines, project maintenance commitments, and coordination with Landmark Preservation and transit agencies for sites adjacent to historic districts and transit facilities.

Presenters provided contact information for written testimony and said more detailed materials on the sites and MIH options would be circulated to the borough board.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Brooklyn Borough Board Meeting, January 7, 2025","oneSentenceSummary","City planning and HPD presented the Atlantic Avenue Mixed‑Use Plan to the Brooklyn Borough Board on Jan. 7, 2024, proposing rezoning of an industrial corridor to allow an estimated 4,600 homes, 800,000 square feet of commercial space and about 2,800 jobs while pairing rezonings with public‑site projects and tenant‑protection measures.","taxTitle","Kings County - Brooklyn Borough, New York","taxId",3520,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6385982,"Parks to switch from 311 requests to neighborhood-focused tree-planting cycle",457,758000,1215000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2118745-dd7458ad7bf27d944c841b3fafb2f395&start=758&end=1215","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2118745-dd7458ad7bf27d944c841b3fafb2f395/thumbnail_758000.jpg","/articles/6385982/Kings-County-Brooklyn-Borough/New-York/Parks-to-switch-from-311-requests-to-neighborhood-focused-tree-planting-cycle","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6385982-4d9165359b3b2974b91888eb051444f0/orig.mp4?Expires=1771188403&Signature=AcWR6U6QvV-36dBJwc0X~Uro07WH2unk6oU0KEQXpVGhj22I364kU3ZXYFCFEYwHfmLjoCZWMmOagIPsPe6DYB4nV~sbyH5uHkHCc~KrXHynDixD4AQH3-YAriST6Ry9lRn7y5s~0X~JRkpk2X~~6xcepPGHd3iDaAUWDtQ05dxzP-fYVoAs-AvgE6zsvVJSCV4vxHFbj5FrNEfhcT02WSPly3ESOXS~1ejl05U1rplIWiahCybnzJ2RJeG58uUISA5AXqNqV-FcSq-CHU2tjbPNawQAYK5-4x87r~4v8JJ1W5x4zed8j8WVdPJFZzD9AxULOQEzJjbNN60oAYi6cw__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Parks Department told the Brooklyn Borough Board on Jan. 7, 2024, that it plans to replace its current reactive, 311-driven tree-planting model with a neighborhood-based planting program that targets entire blocks on a predictable multi-year cycle.

“This new approach ... we have decided that in order to do this, we have to discontinue the service the intake of service requests from the public,” said Nieves Strauss, director of tree planting for the Parks Department. Strauss said the department will instead focus on discrete zones worked on in phases and visit every community board on a three‑year cycle as part of a nine‑year full rollout.

Parks delivered the plan as part of a public presentation to the borough board, citing the department’s inventory and backlog as the rationale for the change. Strauss said New York City Parks manages millions of trees, that roughly 86% of canopy is in forests and that the city has more than 666,000 street trees and about 156,000 trees in landscape parks. She told the board the department currently has “over 42,000 public service requests” citywide and an average wait time of about three years for service requests.

Strauss described the new “neighborhood tree planting” approach as more comprehensive: crews would plant trees, remove stumps and nonviable trees, and “close empty unplantable tree beds” across an entire block, rather than responding to single, individual requests. She said the department has been prioritizing planting in neighborhoods ranked highest on the Department of Health’s Heat Vulnerability Index and that the mayor and City Council funding commitments will continue to support those efforts.

She said a transition phase is planned for 2024–2026 while existing contracts are reconfigured and that the department expects to fully implement the nine‑year cycle after that. Strauss told the board the Parks website and messaging to 311 callers will be updated; she said callers will receive an explanatory message and be referred to the website. On the timeline for stopping 311 intake, Strauss said she was “pretty certain” the intake through 311 will end in March 2025 and that the mobile app would follow, though she said she did not have the app‑specific details at the meeting.

Board members and staff who spoke during the presentation raised several concerns about the change. Multiple community board chairs asked for stronger community engagement before block‑level plantings occur, saying residents have not always been notified when trees are installed on their blocks. Chairperson Baptiste said community outreach and collaboration with other agencies — for example on porous sidewalks, sidewalk repair, stormwater capture and DOT coordination — must be clearer if the Parks Department moves away from an individual service‑request model.

Other questions at the hearing included tree species selection and allergy impacts, rat burrows in tree beds, sidewalk damage and homeowner costs, pruning and maintenance schedules, and whether the department would coordinate plantings with other capital or street‑safety improvements. Strauss said planting decisions consider site suitability and that foresters select species appropriate for each location; she also said the Parks Department’s tree‑maintenance and pruning programs will continue and are not replaced by the planting program.

Several board members asked for follow‑up information. The borough board requested the Parks Department provide a species list, more detail on rollout maps, and clarifications about app and 311 changes. Strauss offered to continue conversations with community boards and follow up on technical questions (for example, tree‑and‑sidewalk grading procedures run by a separate Parks program and which types of sidewalk repairs are funded). She also said that funds already allocated by council offices to tree planting would be honored and spent during the transition.

The presentation closed with Parks staff offering to provide more detailed materials to the borough board and to stay engaged on outreach and implementation planning.","The Parks Department told the Brooklyn Borough Board on Jan. 7, 2024, that it plans to replace its current reactive, 311‑driven tree‑planting model with a neighborhood‑based planting program that targets entire blocks on a predictable multi‑year cycle.","actionData","errors"]

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Atlantic Avenue Mixed‑Use plan (AimUp) proposes rezoning, 4,600 homes and public‑site affordable units; borough board discussion focuses on open space and jobs

Parks to switch from 311 requests to neighborhood-focused tree-planting cycle