THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK

RESOLUTION NO. 649

Resolution approving an amended Urban Development Action Area Project located at 108 West 138^th Street (Block 2006/Lot 40), 113 West 138^th Street (Block 2007/Lot 22), 109 West 138^th Street (Block 2997/Lot 24), 103 West 138^th Street (Block 2007/Lot 27), and 2373 Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard (Block 2007/Lot 62), 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. 339; 20075147 HAM).

By Council Members Katz and Garodnick

WHEREAS, the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development ("HPD") submitted to the Council on November 13, 2006 its request dated October 23, 2006 that the Council take the following actions regarding an amended Urban Development Action Area Project (the "Project") located at 108 West 138^th Street (Block 2006/Lot 40), 113 West 138^th Street (Block 2007/Lot 22), 109 West 138^th Street (Block 2007/Lot 24), 103 West 138^th Street (Block 2007/Lot 27), and 2373 Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard (Block 2007/Lot 62), Community District 10, Borough of Manhattan (the "Project Area"):

                        1.                     Find that the present status of the Project 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 of Section 691 of the General Municipal Law;

                        2.                     Approve the designation of the Project Area as an Urban Development Action Area pursuant to Section 693 of the General Municipal Law;

3.                     Approve the Project as an Urban Development Action Area Project pursuant to Section 694 of the General Municipal Law.

                     WHEREAS, the submission is a proposed amendment to 20050425 HAM (L.U. No. 525, Resolution 1178 of 2005) which was approved by the Council on September 28, 2005.

                           WHEREAS, the Project is to be developed on land that is now an eligible area as defined in Section 692 of the General Municipal Law, consists solely of the rehabilitation or conservation of existing private or multiple dwellings or the construction of one to four unit dwellings, and does not require any change in land use permitted under the New York City Zoning Resolution;

WHEREAS, upon due notice, the Council held a public hearing on the Project on December 4, 2006;

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

RESOLVED:

The Council finds that the present status of the Project Area tends to impair or arrest the sound growth and development of the City of New York and that a designation of the Project as an urban development action area project is consistent with the policy and purposes stated in Section 691 of the General Municipal Law.

The Council approves the area designation requirement of the Project Area as an urban development action area under Section 693 of the General Municipal Law pursuant to said Section.

The Council approves the Project as an urban development action area project pursuant to Section 694 of the General Municipal Law.

The Project shall be disposed of and developed upon the terms and conditions in the Project Summary that HPD has submitted to the Council, a copy of which is attached hereto.

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 December 6, 2006, on file in this office.

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                                             City Clerk, Clerk of The Council