Applicant Cozen on site location, transit, and surrounding context
Cozen describes the site's excellent transit access (L train, J/Z/M, ferry), proximity to Domino Park and other open spaces, and the surrounding context of tall waterfront buildings with a policy of gradually less dense development moving east.
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So the site is located on the east side of Kent Avenue between South 1st and South 2nd Streets.
It has excellent transit, and the location is very advantageous for transit.
It's within about a half a mile from the L train as well as the JZM and a ferry stop along the waterfront.
There are significant open spaces including Domino Park, William Sheridan Playground, and various other hopefully soon to be built open space resources as part of River Ring.
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As Council Member Ressler noted, there are significant either already built or soon to be built buildings along the waterfront to the west of Kent Avenue.
The city has adopted a policy in this area that they would like to see development gradually become less dense and have smaller envelopes as you move east in Williamsburg.
And Toby will speak to that more later on in the presentation.
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So walking around the site, you can see in the top left-hand corner, looking south on Kent, you can see the domino buildings that were built when this picture was taken.
On the top right-hand corner, you can see there is an existing, I believe it's 10-story building that is a pre-existing non-con...
Actually, no, it is a former ink factory that was converted to residential pursuant to a variance.
The site is a...
warehouse, the building on the development site right now is a warehouse that has a temporary storage use.
It has not been actively used by any tenant since Vice Media left.
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As I mentioned, on the left-hand side, you can see the existing M31 zoning district.
On the right-hand side, you can see the portions in pink and purple that will be rezoned to M13A-R7X, as well as the smaller portion along Wythe Avenue and South 2nd that will be rezoned to M12A.
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