Draft Zoning Proposal
Thomas Greene Park
Park Slope Playground
Garden of Union
North PacificPlayground
Nicholas Naquan Heyward Jr. Park
Ennis Playground
Boerum Park
Carroll Park
St. Mary’s Playground
Old Stone House andWashington Park
R6A
C6-1
R6B
R5B
C6-2A
C4-4A
M1-4/R7-2
R6
C6-1
M1-1
R6A
R5
R7B
C4-3A
C6-2
R6A R7A
R6B R6A
C5-4C6-2
R6B
R6B
R7-2
R6B
R6B
M3-1
R6B
R6B
R6B
R6B
C6-1
C6-2
R7BM1-2
M1-2
R6B
R6A
M1-2
R8A
R6B
M2-1
R6
R6B
R6B
R6A
C6-4
R6A
R6B
M1-1
R6B
R6B
R7A
C6-9
M2-1
M1-2
M1-2
Degraw St
Nev
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St
Bon
d S
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3rd
Ave
2nd Ave
4th
Ave
Douglass St
Butler St
Baltic St
Sackett St
Union St
President St
Carroll St
1st St
3rd St4th St
6th St
7th StHuntington St
Hoy
t St
Sm
ith S
t
5th
Ave
Warren St
Wyckoff St
Dean St
Pacific St
Atlantic Ave
Bergen St
1st St
3rd St
Hamilton Ave
8th St
9th St10th St
11th St
12th St
13th St14th St
15th St
16th St
5th St
0 500 1,000250Feet
M1(3) / R6A
M1(3)/ R6A
M1(3) / R6A
M1(2) / R6B
M1(2) / R6B
M1(2) / R6B
M1(3) / R6A
M1(3)/R6A
C4-4D
M1(3) / R7-2
M1(3) / R7-2
M1(3) / R7-2
M1(3)
M1(3)
M1(3)M1(4)
M1(3)
M1(4)
M1(3) / R7A
M1(4) / R7X
M1(4)/ R7X
M1(4)/ R7X
M1(4)/ R7X
R6A
R6B
M1(3)M1(2) / R6B
M2-1
Community and Cultural Resources
• Promote community resources, like schools, and arts-related uses through special FAR regulations in the special district
• Geneate new neighborhood parks and open space
• Align zoning and land use to help facilitate efforts to preserve and adaptively reuse buildings
Waterfront and Open Space
• A Waterfront Access Plan to shape a unique waterfront knitting together parks, bridges and new development
• Zoning requirements and incentives will activate the waterfront and neighborhood parks, which is unique to NYC in that users and recreators will be able to see and interact with the opposite shoreline and parks
• City-owned site to generate new neighborhood, resilient park
• Shoreline elevation through zoning to act as sea-level rise neighborhood adaptation strategy
Sustainability and Resiliency
• Require shoreline elevation through zoning to act as sea-level-rise neighborhood adaptation strategy
• Supporting site remendiation and a denser, mixed-use, live-work-play neighborhood near transit
• Parking & loading requirements reduction or elimination
Built Form
• Create special urban design guidelines
- Sites can accommodate the proposed density with sufficient design flexibility and variety
- Sites can provide transitions between lower/ medium density adjacencies
• Flexible building envelopes for Canal sites were developed to encourage excellent building designs, a unique and varied waterfront
• Strict base heights were developed to respond to neighborhood context and street widths
Economic and Job Development
• Maintain areas for non-residential acitvity only
• Where new residential is allowed promote integratation and a mixing of uses in new buildings through carefully crafted zoning requirements and incentives
• Increase density for light-industrial, commercial and arts-related spaces and eliminate onerous parking requirements
In June 2018, the City released Gowanus: A Framework, which identified goals and strategies around community priorities including Sustainability and Resiliency, Community and Cultural Resources, Housing, Economic and Job Development, and Transportation. Below is a summary of how the Gowanus zoning proposal supports those non-zoning community priorities outlined in the Framework.
M1(3) / R7-2Canal Sub-District
Enhanced Mixed Use
Industrial and Commercial
Residential
M1(2) / R6B
R6B
M1 (2 FAR)
M1(3) / R6A
R6A
M1(3 FAR)
M1(4) / R7XM1(3) / R7A
M1(4 FAR)
C4-4D
Transportation
• Apply transit easements around properties next to Gowanus subway stations to support new entrances, ADA accessibility and other station improvements
• Support a walkable mixed-use neighborhood through permitting higher densities, allowing a broader range of uses and incentivizing or requiring non-residential uses
Housing
• Allow for new housing along Canal, around Thomas Greene Park and major corridors and neighborhood connections
• Facilitate redevelopment of City-owned site for affordable housing, a mix of uses and open space
• Require permanently affordable housing
• Reduce required parking for new homes
R6A Draft Boundaries
Existing Zoning
M1(2) / R6B
M1(3) / R6A
C4-4D*
M1(4) / R7-C*
M1(3)
M1(4)
M1-4
M1(3) / R7A
M1(4) / R7X
Proposed Districts
R6A
R6B
