File #: Res 1668-2017    Version: * Name: LU 742 - Planning, SMALL HOMES REHAB-NYCHA - SOUTHEASTERN QUEENS VACANT HOMES – CLUSTER II, TPT, Brooklyn (20185048HAK)
Type: Resolution Status: Adopted
Committee: Committee on Land Use
On agenda: 9/27/2017
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: Resolution approving an amendment to a previously approved Urban Development Action Area Project located at 580 Lafayette Avenue (Block 01788, Lot 53), Borough of Brooklyn, (L.U. No. 742; 20185048 HAK).
Sponsors: David G. Greenfield, Rafael Salamanca, Jr.
Council Member Sponsors: 2
Attachments: 1. August 9, 2017 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 2. Land Use Calendar - Week of August 21, 2017 - August 25, 2017, 3. Hearing Transcript - Planning 8-21-17, 4. Land Use Calendar - Week of September 4, 2017 - September 8, 2017, 5. Hearing Transcript - Planning 9-5-17, 6. Hearing Testimony - Planning 8-21-17, 7. Land Use Calendar - Week of September 25, 2017 - September 29, 2017, 8. September 27, 2017 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 9. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-27-17, 10. Committee Report, 11. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - September 27, 2017

THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK

RESOLUTION NO. 1668

 

Resolution approving an amendment to a previously approved Urban Development Action Area Project located at 580 Lafayette Avenue (Block 01788, Lot 53), Borough of Brooklyn, (L.U. No. 742; 20185048 HAK).

 

By Council Members Greenfield and Salamanca

 

                       WHEREAS, the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development ("HPD") submitted to the Council on August 4, 2017 its request dated July 31, 2017 that the Council approve an amendment to an Urban Development Action Area Project (the "Amended Project") located at 580 Lafayette Avenue (Block 1788/Lot 53), Community District 3, Borough of Brooklyn,  Council District 36 (the "Transfer Area"):

 

                     WHEREAS, HPD’s requests for the amendment is related to a prior Urban Development Action Area Project adopted by the City Council July 25, 2012; Resolution No. 1461, L.U. No. 652, 20125706 HAK;

 

                     WHEREAS, the current owner, Neighborhood Restore Housing Development Fund Corporation will transfer the subject property to an affiliated entity, Restoring Urban Neighborhoods, LLC (“Sponsor”), which will rehabilitate the property as part of an existing project under the Small Homes Rehab-NYCHA Program (Southeastern Queens Vacant Homes Project, Cluster II, TPT Amendment);

 

                     WHEREAS, the Property will be rehabilitated as a three (3) family home instead of the four (4) family rental building;

 

                      WHEREAS, upon due notice, the Council held a public hearing on the Amended Project on September 25, 2017;

 

                        WHEREAS, the Council has considered the land use and financial implications and other policy issues relating to the Project;

 

RESOLVED:

                                             

                     The Council approves the Amended Project as an Urban Development Action Area Project pursuant to Section 694 of the General Municipal Law.

 

                     The Project shall be transferred and developed upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Project Summary that HPD has submitted to the Council, a copy of which is attached hereto and made a part hereof.

Adopted.

 

                        Office of the City Clerk, }

                        The City of New York,  } ss.:

 

                                              I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a Resolution passed by The Council of The City of New York on September 27, 2017, on file in this office.

 

 

 

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