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On May 17, the City Planning Commission (CPC) certified the
SoHo/NoHo Neighborhood Plan (the Plan), which would replace
outdated zoning regulations that preclude residences, including
affordable housing, and severely restrict ground floor uses.
Certification is the first step in the City s Uniform Land Use
Review Procedure (ULURP); this schedule should allow the Plan to be
approved by the CPC and the City Council by the end of the year,
while the current mayor and City Council member are in office.
The rezoning is timely, since the COVID-19 pandemic has
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Soho and Marisa Lago (iStock, Dept. of City Planning)
The proposal to rezone Soho and Noho is moving forward, despite a lawsuit claiming the plan cannot proceed if the city doesn’t host in-person hearings.
The City Planning Commission on Monday certified the application to rezone the neighborhoods, officially kickstarting the public land use review process. The timing of the certification means the rezoning could make it through the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure before the end of the de Blasio administration, as long as it doesn’t face further delays.
The proposal would apply to 56 blocks in the neighborhood, eliminating restrictions that permit only light manufacturing use on ground floors. It could also pave the way for more than 3,500 residential units, of which as many as 1,118 could be set aside as affordable. (The city has identified only 26 sites that are likely to be developed in the next 10 years, which would yield an estimated 1,829 units, of which 382 to 573 wou
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Quick Fix The City Planning Commission is slated to move
the proposed SoHo rezoning into the formal land use review process during a meeting today, as the de Blasio administration fights a new lawsuit from community groups seeking to block the plan.
Judge declines to issue temporary restraining order in SoHo rezoning case
Bloomberg
Opponents of the SoHo rezoning have lost their bid to place a temporary restraining order on the process in their legal battle against it.
Judge Arthur Engoron, who previously ruled in favor of the City Council in its fight against four major towers planned for Lower Manhattan, declined to issue the order for the SoHo rezoning process in the lawsuit the SoHo Alliance and Broadway Residents Coalition had filed against the city on Friday. This should allow the rezoning process to proceed even as the lawsuit makes its way through the court system.