Applicant Lobel presents 21-31 46th Avenue project overview
Richard Lobel of Sheldon Lobel PC presents the 21-31 46th Avenue rezoning for applicant Ashley Fina, seeking to rezone from M1-4/R6B to R7X with C2-5 overlay. The 11-story building would have ~84 units with 15 affordable at MIH Option 1, on a transit-rich site with no residential displacement.
Thank you, Chair Lewis, Councilmember Juan, Committee Council, Richard Lobel of Sheldon Lobel, joined by Ashley Fina, who is our applicant, Nick Labaris, the project architect, Christina Zapansky from GZA Environmental.
We're here today to discuss, as Councilmember Juan suggested, the 2131-46th Avenue rezoning.
The next slide is a summary in terms of what the rezoning accomplishes.
We've got an existing M14R6B zoning district.
That district has been set since 2004.
And despite the R6B designation, in the last 25 years, there's been no housing produced on the site.
In fact, we have an underbuilt commercial building with 15 parking spaces.
The proposal would allow for a rezoning to an R7XC25 district to produce a new 11-story, roughly 81,000 square foot community facility, commercial, and residential building.
with roughly 84 units.
This is important to us because we've got an existing property here, which is central to transportation, as we'll talk about in the slides to come, with no residential displacement.
in an area where there is already some infrastructure to accommodate a building of this nature.
In addition to the rezoning, we of course would be asking for a mandatory inclusionary housing text amendment.
In the current iteration, this would result in roughly 21 permanently affordable homes.