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Agency Testimony

Todorovic explains 2023 South Richmond Zoning Relief intent

New York City Council · Oct 6, 2026 · starts 1:36:33 · 40 sec

Todorovic says the 2023 proposal provided zoning flexibility for small properties while preserving natural features on large properties, and mostly cleaned up outdated 1975 regulations and digitized text maps.

George Todorovic

So, as we said, the South Richmond Zoning Relief Proposal was adopted in 2023.

George Todorovic

The intent of CISR, as we call it, was to provide zoning flexibility for small properties while maintaining the district goal of natural feature preservation on large properties over one acre in size.

George Todorovic

A majority of the proposal was cleaning up outdated zoning regulations from 1975, as Kari noted.

George Todorovic

As it was an update since it had not been changed since then in 50 years.

George Todorovic

As you can see in thumbnail number four, CISR included updates to DOS out of many other things in that proposal, digitizing the text maps, removing conflicts, things of that nature.

George Todorovic

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