Council Member Encarnación questions applicant on community engagement

Thank you.

Hello.

So I agree.

I think it, seeing that it looks very out of character for what the neighborhood currently looks like now, and the fact that the community board has

not necessarily been in favor of this.

Can you outline some of the community engagement you've had with some of the local neighbors there?

If there's been any opportunities to meet with them, to talk them through what are their needs, what would they like to see out of the project outside of the community board meetings?

Outside of the community board meetings, no, we availed ourselves to the Euler process.

We met several times with the land use committee and then had hearings with the land use committee and the full community board.

So no, with the direct neighborhood.

No outside engagement.

I think, you know, Andrew has a relationship with some of the council members and, you know, has spoken to them about specific or sorry, excuse me, the community board members and, you know, had some offline conversation, but not any real direct engagement with the community.

So I do have an independent relationship with some of the members of Community Board 4.

We've had some very spirited, I wouldn't even call them debates, conversations stemming from an earlier project at 7801 Queens Boulevard, where we worked with...

Councilmember Krishnan's office, in addition to CB4, and we've been able to achieve some creative results that I think they're relatively pleased with.

So we have had, Frank, even to the extent you may not be privy to, conversations about how to, you know, certainly hear them, work with them.

Height has been a significant component.

So I can tell you that for what that's worth to add, Councilmember.

Thank you.

I'm going to kick it back.

Oh, you have another one?

I'm done.

I'm going to kick it back to Thomas Henry.