| Proposal:
The High Line
The West Chelsea rezoning proposal contains provisions
intended to enhance the proposed High Line
open space and to ensure that adjacent developments
engage with and relate to the High Line. To
encourage preservation of light and air around
the High Line, the proposal would allow development
rights to be transferred from High Line properties
to designated receiving sites within the Special
West Chelsea District. New development along
Tenth Avenue, adjacent to the High Line, would
also be subject to a series of building bulk
and use
controls to encourage connections
to the High Line and the preservation of light,
air and views.
The rezoning proposal would create
a High Line Transfer Corridor (HLTC). The HLTC
would generally
be 100-feet wide and would contain the entire
High Line structure and portions of adjacent
lots
between West 18th and West 30th Streets (indicated
on the Proposed
Zoning map). Owners of property within the
HLTC would be permitted to transfer their development
rights, equivalent to the base FAR for the property,
to designated receiving sites within the Special
District. The construction of stair access to
the High Line would be required as a condition
of the transfer on some properties.
Separate site selection and acquisition actions
would transfer control of the High Line to the
City and would facilitate the implementation
of a master plan design for the High Line open
space.
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