Help Stop Out-of-Scale Development at 180 Ludlow & 163 Orchard
From our friends at the East Village Community Coalition:
In 2008, the Department of City Planning adopted the East Village / Lower East Side Rezoning. The rezoning was the result of years of community collaboration between Community Board 3, neighborhood groups, residents, and elected officials. In short, the rezoning was designed to:
- Preserve the established neighborhood scale and character by establishing contextual zoning districts with height limits, and
- Provide modest opportunities for residential growth and incentives for affordable housing along the area’s widest streets well served by bus or subway lines.
A developer is currently seeking zoning variances for out-of-scale transient hotels at 180 Ludlow and 163 Orchard Street. The proposed variances fly in the face of a rezoning that so many in our community worked so hard to achieve. They would allow development greatly in excess of height limits wanted by our community. We fail to see how this development could benefit our community no matter what a developer promises. Additionally, the developer missed the November 19th deadline for completing 180 Ludlow, and now seeks a two-year extension.
Please join the EVCC in urging Community Board 3 to respect the 2008 rezoning and deny the zoning variance.
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