The City Council voted 48-0 yesterday to approve a rezoning plan for Carroll Gardens. Led by the Department of City Planning, the rezoning aims to protect the row house character of the neighborhood by introducing a contextual zoning district with height limits of 50 feet, and 70 feet where those heights already exist.
Your Nabe: Borough President Marty Markowitz said the rezoning largely reflects the community’s desire for limiting building heights to fifty feet. “The rezoning will go a long way in achieving the community’s objective to preserve the unique ambience and character of the neighborhood,” he said.
The Carroll Gardens portion of the rezoning area is generally bounded by Degraw Street, Warren Street and Douglass Street to the north; Hoyt Street, Bond Street and Smith Street to the east; 3rd Street, 4th Street, 5th Street, Centre Street and Hamilton Avenue to the south; and Hicks Street to the west.
The Columbia Street portion of the rezoning area consists of approximately 14 blocks bounded by Warren Street to the north, a line between Columbia Street and Van Brunt Street to the west, Hicks Street to the east and Woodhull Street to the south.
The initiative will map contextual zoning designations, with height limits of 60 or 80 feet, along mixed used corridors of Court and Columbia Streets, as well as other densely built blocks, according to City Planning. The plan also seeks to reduce the depths of commercial districts to reflect existing development patterns and “preclude commercial intrusions into residential side streets.”
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