Some 15,000 new properties are slated to be in-built Lengthy Island Metropolis after the Metropolis Council handed the Adams administration’s formidable “OneLIC” rezoning plan throughout a last vote on Wednesday — the most important such neighborhood plan in many years.
“OneLIC” rezones a roughly 54-block waterfront swath to permit for the event of almost 15,000 new residences, 4,350 of that are purported to be reasonably priced, plus roughly 4 million sq. ft of economic and group house.
OneLIC challenge space map. (NYC Division of Metropolis Planning)
Native Councilmember Julie Gained received behind the challenge final month after securing virtually $2 billion in funding for parks, infrastructure, NYCHA and 1,300 new college seats throughout negotiations, an infusion of money she described as “long overdue” Wednesday.
“Today’s vote passing the OneLIC Plan brings us closer to an integrated Long Island City,” she mentioned in a press release. “Over the last three decades, the city has allowed developers to dictate what is built in our neighborhood. These past two years, thousands of residents came together to envision our future. … Finally, we will be one Long Island City, for current and future residents.”
The largely industrial rezoned space falls inside mayoral-elect Zohran Mamdani’s Meeting district, and he formally endorsed the plan for the primary time on Wednesday after talking favorably about it previously.
As an Meeting member, Mamdani didn’t have a proper position within the rezoning course of however as mayor he can be charged with taking on from the Adams administration in tackling the town’s ongoing housing disaster.
OneLIC rendering of Vernon Blvd. and forty fifth Ave. in Queens. (NYC Division of Metropolis Planning)
Lengthy Island Metropolis is already within the midst of an enormous inhabitants and improvement increase following a collection of smaller rezonings and aborted plans underneath previous administrations seen as having fallen brief on the reasonably priced housing entrance.
A number of senior Adams administration officers attended a press convention on the Metropolis Corridor steps with Gained earlier than Wednesday’s vote to rejoice the passage of the rezoning.
However Mayor Adams himself, who’s leaving workplace Dec. 31, didn’t attend despite the fact that his administration spearheaded OneLIC, the fifth and last neighborhood rezoning throughout his tenure.
Whereas these, plus the bigger Metropolis of Sure zoning overhaul, helped “create, preserve, or plan over 433,000 homes,” it’s nonetheless in need of the five hundred,000 “moonshot” aim Adams pledged.
“It’s hard work, it takes collaboration and teamwork, working with the City Council, so we have to continue to work,” Mastro mentioned. “I think there’s a commitment to do that in the future, and I will always root for the city to be successful.”
