Rezoning Area
The rezoning establishes the Special Long Island
City Mixed Use District (LIC District) in the core
of Long Island City, extending diagonally along
Jackson Avenue from Vernon Boulevard to 41st Avenue
and consisting of the Hunters Point, Court Square,
and Queens Plaza subdistricts (illustrated on page
three). Most of the blocks within the former Special
Hunters Point Mixed Use District (HP District) are
included in the Hunters Point Subdistrict, and special
mixed-use provisions for these blocks remain in
effect. The Court Square Subdistrict (shown at right),
an existing three-block subdistrict of the HP District,
continues to be a three-block subdistrict within
the LIC District. The rezoning eliminates restrictions
on residential development in the Court Square Subdistrict,
but the subdistrict’s other provisions linking
high density development to subway and other improvements
are unchanged. The most significant zoning changes
are embodied in the Queens Plaza Subdistrict, which
consists of a triangular-shaped area between Court
Square and Queens Plaza. This area has been rezoned
from light manufacturing zoning districts to mixed-use
zoning districts.
The adopted
Zoning Text Amendment is in pdf format.
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Zoning Change
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Under
the development scenario outlined in the Environmental
Impact Statement, approximately 5.0 million square
feet of office development and 300 housing units,
in addition to retail and institutional developments,
could be developed on several sites over the next
decade.
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Buildout
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