Brooklyn’s Community
Board 6′s land use committee approved the rezoning of 86 blocks in
Carroll Gardens and the Columbia Street Waterfront District, which will
establish height limits on new construction in the brownstone
neighborhoods. One criticism the committee had in the rezoning plan is
about one L-shaped section on Clinton Street from Degraw Street south
to First Place and east to Court Street that could permit building
heights of about seven stories. The committee adopted an amendment
calling for the city to change that part of the plan and cut the
allowed height. “The community spoke with a fairly unified voice and no
one actually seemed to object to the overall acknowledgment that the
neighborhood was worth protecting through a contextual rezoning,” said
Craig Hammerman, the district manager of the board.