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Chair Louis asks how corrections align with 2023 South Richmond amendment

New York City Council · Oct 6, 2026 · starts 1:44:33 · 1 min 18 sec

Chair Louis asks how the corrective actions are consistent with the 2023 South Richmond Zoning Relief; Todorovic says the 2023 effort targeted pre-1975 vested homes, DCP found three missed sites out of about 700, and the fixes provide homeowner relief.

Farah N. Louis

Okay.

Farah N. Louis

And can you speak further as to how these corrective actions are consistent with the recently enacted South Richmond Zoning Relief Tax Amendment?

George Todorovic

Yes.

George Todorovic

So the tax amendment from 2023 focused on homes that were built before 1975, because in 1975, any home that existed had

George Todorovic

this DOS rule mapped upon it.

George Todorovic

And for the past 50 years, I've only been there 10 years, but 40 before me and 10 while I've been there, our office has been asked, why do I have this map on my site?

George Todorovic

And we said, well, you know, now we have GIS, now we have softwares to accurately map this, so we will clean this up.

George Todorovic

And we got very close.

George Todorovic

And there's three sites that we missed.

George Todorovic

We, Kari sent a flyer with a QR code to the community board.

George Todorovic

We sent an interactive map.

George Todorovic

We said, this is the last time.

George Todorovic

We're going to do this one more time to clean it up.

George Todorovic

And we found three sites out of, I think, 700.

George Todorovic

So I think it's pretty good, but, you know, not perfect.

George Todorovic

And that's why we're fixing these last three.

George Todorovic

And the connection to 1975, again, is to help all the vested homes that were already existing that said, why is this happening to me?

George Todorovic

And to provide homeowner relief for modest home improvement and home construction.

Farah N. Louis

Thank you for that.