Planning and Zoning

• Arverne Urban Renewal Area (Projects Under Regulation)

  The Arverne Urban Renewal Area is bounded by Beach 32nd Street, Beach 81st Street, Rockaway Freeway, and the Rockaway Boardwalk and consists of 308 acres. The City’s Department of Housing Preservation and...

• Basement Conversion Program

  The Basement Conversion Program is a three-year demonstration program to facilitate the creation and renovation of apartments in the basements and cellars of certain one- and two-family homes in Brooklyn. The City...

• Edgemere Urban Renewal Area (Projects Under Regulation)

  The Edgemere Urban Renewal Area, located in Rockaway, Queens, is bounded by Conch Basin, Beach Channel Drive, and Norton Basin on the north, Beach 35th Street on the east, Beach Channel Drive, Rockaway Beach...

• Gateway Estates (Projects Under Regulation)

  Gateway Estates is a 227-acre neighborhood near Spring Creek in East New York, Brooklyn. As a large scale development of city-owned vacant land, Gateway Estates pulled from several financing sources to develop...

• Housing+

  In partnership with the owners of current HUD-assisted properties, Mitchell-Lamas, and developments financed through past City disposition programs, the City is launching Housing+, an initiative designed to add...

• Inclusionary Housing Program

  The Inclusionary Housing Program (IHP), also known as Inclusionary Zoning, is designed to preserve and promote affordable housing within neighborhoods where zoning has been modified to encourage new development. The...

• Saratoga Square Urban Renewal Area (Projects Under Regulation)

  Saratoga Square is an urban renewal area located on the border of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Brownsville, Brooklyn. Initially under the Saratoga Square Urban Renewal Plan, developers were to build 376 two-family,...

• Zoning for Quality and Affordability

  Zoning for Quality and Affordability (ZQA) addresses several ways in which New York City’s zoning regulations have, in practice, discouraged the quality and affordability of recent buildings. Regarding...