File #: Res 0376-2018    Version: * Name: LU 80 - Planning, 615 West 150th Street Cluster, Manhattan (20185332 HAM)
Type: Resolution Status: Adopted
File created: 5/23/2018 In control: Committee on Land Use
On agenda: 5/23/2018 Final action: 5/23/2018
Title: Resolution approving an Urban Development Action Area Project pursuant to Article 16 of the General Municipal Law and a real property tax exemption pursuant to Article XI of the Private Housing Finance Law for property located at 615 West 150th Street (Block 2097, Lot 20) and 601 West 148th Street (Block 2095, Lot 29), Borough of Manhattan; and waiving the urban development action area designation requirement and the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, Community District 9, Borough of Manhattan (L.U. No. 80; 20185332 HAM).
Sponsors: Rafael Salamanca, Jr., Ben Kallos
Attachments: 1. May 9, 2018 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 2. Land Use Calendar - Week of May 14, 2018 - May 18, 2018, 3. May 23, 2018 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 4. Committee Report, 5. Project Summary, 6. Resolution, 7. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 5-23-18, 8. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - May 23, 2018
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
RESOLUTION NO. 376

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Resolution approving an Urban Development Action Area Project pursuant to Article 16 of the General Municipal Law and a real property tax exemption pursuant to Article XI of the Private Housing Finance Law for property located at 615 West 150th Street (Block 2097, Lot 20) and 601 West 148th Street (Block 2095, Lot 29), Borough of Manhattan; and waiving the urban development action area designation requirement and the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, Community District 9, Borough of Manhattan (L.U. No. 80; 20185332 HAM).
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By Council Members Salamanca and Kallos

WHEREAS, the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development ("HPD") submitted to the Council on April 18, 2018 its request dated April 13, 2018 that the Council take the following actions regarding the proposed Urban Development Action Area Project (the "Project") located at 615 West 150th Street (Block 2097, Lot 20) and 601 West 148th Street (Block 2095, Lot 29), Community District 9, Borough of Manhattan (the "Disposition Area"):

1. Find that the present status of the Disposition Area tends to impair or arrest the sound growth and development of the municipality and that the proposed Urban Development Action Area Project is consistent with the policy and purposes of Section 691 of the General Municipal Law;

2. Waive the area designation requirement of Section 693 of the General Municipal Law pursuant to Section 693 of the General Municipal Law;

3. Waive the requirements of Sections 197-c and 197-d of the Charter pursuant to Section 694 of the General Municipal Law;

4. Approve the project as an Urban Development Action Area Project pursuant to Section 694 of the General Municipal Law; and

5. Approve the exemption of the Disposition Area from real property taxes pursuant to Section 577 of Article XI of the Private Housing Finance Law.

WHEREAS, the Project is to be developed on land that is an eligible a...

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