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EAST NEW YORK NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN

UPDATE TO CITY PLANNING COMMISSIONOCTOBER 30, 2017

• The East New York Neighborhood Plan is acoordinated plan to strengthen East New York with:

• Affordable housing

• Economic opportunities

• New Community Resources

• Approved by the City Council in April 2016• Projected to create nearly 6,000 units of housing in

the next 15 years, with deep affordability commitments from the City

• City committed $267 million in capital projects and services for East New York

East New York Neighborhood Plan

Since approval, the City has made significant strides towards meeting the plan commitments including:

• Awarded a City-owned site for the development of 275 units of affordable housing

• Opened a new Workforce1 Center• Selected a site for a new 1,000 seat school• Gathered public input and began design on

three parks improvement projects• Nearing start of construction on the Atlantic

Avenue improvement project• Advanced the design and construction of a

new community center• Released the first annual Progress Report


Sustainable Communities East New York

2011-2014

Housing New York

May 2014

Outreach and Plan

Development 2014-2016

Plan AdoptionApril 2016

PLANNING PROCESSEast New York Neighborhood Plan


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A comprehensive neighborhood plan with strategies for:


HOUSING

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

LAND USE & ZONING

COMMUNITY RESOURCES

LAND USE PLANNING FRAMEWORK


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STRATEGIES for LAND USE & ZONING

PREVIOUS ZONING• Did not allow new housing on key

corridors• Restricted new development to low

densities

NEW ZONING• Allows mixed-use medium-density

development on transit corridors • Protects low-scale character of side

streets through contextual residential districts

• Requires permanent affordable housing in areas where density was increased

• Requires active ground floor uses on key commercial corridors

Medium-density mixed use

Low-density residential


DEVELOPMENT TRENDS

• New housing in pipeline is 100% affordable, as anticipatedo One as-of-right

development with 100 units is in the works on Atlantic Avenue

o Owners of other private sites have expressed interest in developing 100% affordable housing

• Several projects have submitted applications to DOB and HPD


Project proposed at Atlantic Avenue and Linwood Street

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STRATEGIES for HOUSING


• Preserve Existing Affordable Housing

• Support Homeowners• Protect Tenants• Provide Permanent Stable

Housing• Build New Affordable

Housing

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Preserve Existing Affordable Housing• Financed the preservation of

589 affordable homes serving primarily extremely low- to low-income households in CD5

• Launched the Green Housing Preservation Program and Community Retrofit NYC • Engaged over 100 building

owners in CD5, representing roughly 1,000 homes. Over 30 buildings have initiated or completed retrofits.

Grace Towers HDC ( Pitkin Ave/Belmont Ave by Pennsylvania Ave)

HELP DUMONT (Hindsdale St and Blake Ave)Figures as of Sept 30, 2017

HOUSING – PROGRESS SINCE PLAN ADOPTION

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Support Homeowners• Distributed $144,192 to six low-

income homeowners for home repairs and improvements in East New York through SCHAP and NHS

• NHS facilitated more than a dozen workshops, seminars, and presentations in ENY.

• Launched the East New York Homeowner Help Desk and reached out to over 3,500 homeowners

• Hosted 12 Help Desk events• Educated more than 2,000

homeowners • Assisted more than 350

homeowners with foreclosure prevention, financial/legal counseling, and other services.

Figures as of Sept 30, 2017


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Protect Tenants• Provided free legal assistance to

2,330 households in East New York facing eviction or harassmentbetween Oct 2015 –Sept 2017

• Tenant Support Unit knocked on 19,258 doors and assisted 1,523 tenants in East New York

• Conducted 23,763 inspections, issued 18,856 violations, dismissed 16,655 violations; spent $881,593 in emergency repairs; involved in 560 housing court cases, including 48comprehensive cases brought by HPD

Code figures for FY17


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Provide Permanent and Stable Housing• Transitioned three shelters out of

operation

• 436 homeless families and individuals from East New York have moved into permanent housing through City rental assistance and other housing assistance programs (as of December 2016).

• HPD continues to incentivize and even require developers to set aside units for formerly homeless households in new affordable housing built in East New York.


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Build New Affordable Housing• Awarded the Dinsmore-Chestnut

RFP to “Chestnut Commons” • Joint venture: MHANY, Urban

Builders Collaborative, CHLDC • 275 affordable homes through

HPD’s ELLA program• CUNY Kingsborough

Community College satellite campus, a black box theater by ARTS East New York, a Food Manufacturing Kitchen incubator, a Brooklyn Coop Federal Credit Union branch, and other small retail and recreational/social services

• RFP included community input from two public workshops led by HPD in June 2016


Van Sinderin Plaza- MacQuesten Companies, Best Development LLC, Local Development Corporation of ENY

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Build New Affordable Housing• Moving forward in financing deeply

affordable housing in/around rezoning area:

• Awarded three NCP sites for development of 42 affordable homes to East Brooklyn Congregations

• Reviewing additional NIHOP/NCP RFP submissions

• Issued RFP for Christopher-Glenmore site based on input received through Brownsville Plan community engagement

• Continue working with private site owners to develop affordable housing using HPD’s revised ELLA program

Brownsville Planning Process (Nov 2016)


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STRATEGIES for ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT


• Connect residents to career opportunities at new Workforce1 Center and through HireNYC

• Support existing and new businesses

• Strengthen commercial corridors

• Promote business and job growth in the ENY Industrial Business Zone

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• Workforce 1 Career Center opened in East New Yorko More than 3,500 clients

served; 185 connected to employment

• Commercial District Needs Assessment completed for four key corridorso SBS awarded $1.4M in

commercial revitalization grants to local CBOs for supplemental sanitation, merchant services, business support and retention, street beautification and more


ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - PROGRESS SINCE PLAN ADOPTION

• Design underway for exterior and interior rehabilitation of City-owned industrial building in the IBZ to create modern industrial space

• Streetscape improvements to enhance safety and accessibility around key transit nodes are in design

• Launched district marketing campaign in partnership with the East Brooklyn Business Improvement Districto Installed new street

banners


ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - PROGRESS SINCE PLAN ADOPTION

STRATEGIES for COMMUNITY RESOURCES

• Build a new 1,000 seat PS/IS school

• Reconstruct Atlantic Avenue with a raised, planted median, curb extensions and pedestrian amenities to improve safety

• Improve existing parks to provide more diverse recreational options

• Create a new community center offering youth programs



COMMUNITY RESOURCES - PROGRESS SINCE PLAN ADOPTION

• Site selection complete for new 1,000 seat school on city-owned site; design underwayo Opening expected

September 2020• Design and construction

underway for newcommunity center to be run by NYPD in city-owned building on Pennsylvania Aveo Community visioning

session held in Oct 2016• DOT to begin reconstruction

of Atlantic Ave this fall


COMMUNITY RESOURCES - PROGRESS SINCE PLAN ADOPTION

• Parks held community visioning sessions and began design for three parks projects:o Lower Highland Park

Western PlaygroundConstruction to begin 2018

o City Line ParkConversion of asphalt area to new turf field, fitness area, and skate park

o Callahan Kelly PlaygroundFull renovation of park

• Schoolyards to Playgrounds sites open at PS 677 and PS 345


PUBLIC REPORTING


ONGOING PLANNING

• Broadway Junction studyled by EDC and DCP recently launched

• Will study potential infrastructure improvements, public realm investments and feasibility of large-scale, job intensive uses around this regional transportation hub

• Aligned with goals of NY Works to grow the number of jobs outside of Manhattan


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RANGE OF STRATEGIES UNDERWAY

Atlantic Avenue and Chestnut Street today


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Chestnut Commons: 100% affordable housing

Build a new school

Make Atlantic Avenue safer to cross

Create space for retail and community facilities

RANGE OF STRATEGIES UNDERWAY

Atlantic Avenue and Chestnut Street – future

Improve parks

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