The Department of City Planning Director Dan Garodnick and Council Member Crystal Hudson announced the Atlantic Avenue Mixed-Use Plan (AAMUP) Community Vision and Priorities Report has been released.
The report is a summary of more than eight months of engagement and feedback from community stakeholders in Central Brooklyn. This document will guide the transformation of the area surrounding Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, between Vanderbilt Avenue and Nostrand Avenue, into a vibrant, mixed-use community.
“We’re grateful to the hundreds of New Yorkers who made their voices heard throughout this process, and to Council Member Hudson, WXY, and our City partners who helped to collect wide-ranging input about the future potential of Atlantic Avenue,” said Garodnick. “This report is critical to our work as we craft the future of these Central Brooklyn neighborhoods.”
The feedback from stakeholders identified six top community priorities. These priorities are: new, permanent affordable housing, and the preservation of existing affordable housing; zoning for a mixed-use community with access to jobs and services; a redesign of Atlantic Avenue; increased career pathways and prioritization for Black-owned and minority/women-owned businesses; new public green spaces and improved parks; and activation of the Bedford-Atlantic Armory with new community amenities.
“The Atlantic Avenue Mixed-Use Plan rezoning has been a long time in the making,” said Hudson. “For more than a decade, the community surrounding Atlantic Avenue has called for a new vision for this dangerous corridor that delivers more deeply affordable housing, increased investments in the area’s local economy, safer streets, and greater consideration of local infrastructure needs. With the release of the AAMUP Community Vision and Priorities Report, there is now a comprehensive and tangible path toward achieving these sorely needed goals."
Following the release of the Community Vision and Priorities Report, DCP will release a draft zoning framework to advance the environmental review process with a Scoping Meeting. This meeting is an early step before undertaking a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS), developing a land use application, and starting the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure for a neighborhood rezoning. The Engagement Report will inform all of these proposals and agreements.
DCP will share the draft zoning framework at a virtual Draft Zoning Discussion on September 6. New Yorkers can register for the Draft Zoning Discussion here.
The proposal is expected to be certified to begin in spring 2024.
