File #: Res 1498-2012    Version: * Name: LU 627 - UDAAP, 165 West 80th St, Manhattan (20125696 HAM)
Type: Resolution Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Land Use
On agenda: 9/12/2012
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: Resolution approving motion to file pursuant to withdrawal of application for an Urban Development Action Area Project located at 165 West 80th Street (Block 1211, Lot 7), Borough of Manhattan, and waiving the urban development action area designation requirement and the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, pursuant to Sections 693 and 694 of the General Municipal Law (L.U. No. 627; 20125696 HAM).
Sponsors: Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., Stephen T. Levin
Council Member Sponsors: 2
Attachments: 1. Committee Report, 2. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-12--12
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
RESOLUTION NO. 1498
 
 
Resolution approving motion to file pursuant to withdrawal of application for an Urban Development Action Area Project located at 165 West 80th Street (Block 1211, Lot 7), Borough of Manhattan, and waiving the urban development action area designation requirement and the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, pursuant to Sections 693 and 694 of the General Municipal Law (L.U. No. 627; 20125696 HAM).
 
 
By Council Members Comrie and Levin
 
       WHEREAS, the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development ("HPD") submitted to the Council on May 7, 2012 its request dated April 10, 2012 that the Council take the following actions regarding the following Urban Development Action Area Project (the "Project") located at 165 West 80th Street (Block 1211, Lot 7), Community District 7, Borough of Manhattan (the "Disposition Area"):
 
       1.      Find that the present status of the Disposition Area tends to impair or arrest the sound growth and development of the municipality and that the proposed Urban Development Action Area Project is consistent with the policy and purposes stated in Section 691 of the General Municipal Law;
 
        2.      Waive the area designation requirement of Section 693 of the General Municipal Law pursuant to said Section;
 
       3.      Waive the requirements of Sections 197-c and 197-d of the New York City Charter pursuant to Section 694 of the General Municipal Law;
 
       4.      Approve the Project as an urban development action area project pursuant to Section 694 of the General Municipal Law; and
 
       5.      Approve an exemption of the Project from real property taxes pursuant to Section 577 of Article XI of the Private Housing Finance Law (the "Tax Exemption").;
 
          WHEREAS, by submission dated August 28, 2012 and submitted to the City Council on August 29, 2012, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development withdrew the application.
 
 
RESOLVED:
 
       The Council approves the motion to file pursuant to withdrawal in accord with Rules 6.40a and 11.80 of the Rules of the Council.
 
 
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 12, 2012, on file in this office.
 
 
 
 
 
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                                                                              City Clerk, Clerk of The Council