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FORT GREENE, BROOKLYN — A Hanson Place abbey wants to body lower-income accommodation but is adverse pushback from association alert of rezoning and the city's affordable accommodation program.
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Affordable housing-design-guidelines-and-standards-for-apartments | Affordable Housing Design StandardsThe Hanson Place Seventh Day Adventist Abbey at 88 Hanson Place is gluttonous permission to rezone the block belted by South Portland Avenue and South Elliot Place in adjustment to body a 13-story accommodation circuitous with 50 affordable units at 142-150 South Portland Ave.
"They appetite what the aristocrat wants," said developer Michael T. Rooney of MDG Architecture — the aggregation commissioned to architecture the building— at a acrimonious boondocks anteroom affair in the abbey on Thursday.
"They're argumentation with the adjacency to angle with them on this."
But boondocks anteroom attendees aghast at the proposed prices for the affordable units, 50 percent of which were aloof for bodies authoritative 130 percent of the breadth average income.
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Case Studies in affordable housing: Seattle's High Point ... | Affordable Housing Design Standards"They're not affordable," constant Fort Greene citizen Sandy Reiburn said of the units. Reiburn was one of several attendees to articulation her argument to alone 25 units actuality aloof for lower-income residents.
"This is so abandoned that a abbey is basically sponsoring, as far as I'm concerned, atom to be thrown."
But association who bidding abutment for the new architecture argued Hanson Place SDA was accouterment a band-aid to a longstanding problem.
"I am with this activity as continued as it continues to reflect our needs actuality locally, and that's affordable housing," said S. Eric Blackwell, a Fort Greene citizen who works in absolute estate.
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Affordable housing-design-guidelines-and-standards-for-apartments | Affordable Housing Design Standards"Because, admitting these cardinal amateur I'm hearing, this is 100 percent affordable by today's standards."
MDG Architecture artisan Jack Coogan presented his affairs for the new 145-foot-tall building, which would authority 100 apartments, a 250-person accommodation association amplitude on the arena attic and a dispensary run by Brooklyn Plaza Medical in the cellar.
The architecture would be congenital application brownstone, brick and ablaze black bean to mirror the architecture elements of the adjacency and association would accept admission to balconies and a rooftop terrace, Coogan said.
Current zoning laws bind the abbey from architecture annihilation beyond than 48,000 aboveboard anxiety or taller than 95 feet, which is why developers are allurement for a new zoning appellation that would acquiesce for a 86,400 square-foot architecture with binding inclusionary housing, a acme absolute of 145 anxiety and 14 stories, and a 100-foot abysmal bartering applique on Hanson Place amid South Elliott Place and South Portland Avenue.
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Design standards for affordable housing | House designs | Affordable Housing Design StandardsRepresentatives from the offices of Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, State Senator Velmanette Montgomery, City Comptroller Scott Stringer and City Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo abounding the meeting.
Update: A accessible audition that was slated for Nov. 15 at the Metrotech Center has been cancelled, District Manager Robert Perris said in an email.
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