The New York City Council - File #: Res 0134-2018

• File #: Res 0134-2018
• Version: *
• Name: LU 11- Planning, 9 Fort Washington Avenue Cluster, Manhattan (20185162 HAM)
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 1/31/2018
• In control: Committee on Land Use
• On agenda: 1/31/2018
• Final action: 1/31/2018
• 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 9 Fort Washington Avenue (Block 2136, Lot 47), 518 West 161st Street (Block 2119, Lot 28), 544-46 West 163rd Street (Block 2122, Lot 142), and 609 West 158th Street (Block 2136, Lot 5), Borough of Manhattan; and waiving the urban development action area designation requirement and the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, Community District 12, Borough of Manhattan (L.U. No. 11; 20185162 HAM).
• Sponsors: Rafael Salamanca, Jr., Francisco P. Moya

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
1/31/2018	*	City Council	Approved, by Council	Pass
1/25/2018	*	Committee on Land Use	Approved by Committee

THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
RESOLUTION NO. 134

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 9 Fort Washington Avenue (Block 2136, Lot 47), 518 West 161st Street (Block 2119, Lot 28), 544-46 West 163rd Street (Block 2122, Lot 142), and 609 West 158th Street (Block 2136, Lot 5), Borough of Manhattan; and waiving the urban development action area designation requirement and the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, Community District 12, Borough of Manhattan (L.U. No. 11; 20185162 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 January 8, 2018 its request dated December 1, 2017 that the Council take the following actions regarding the proposed Urban Development Action Area Project (the "Project") located at 9 Fort Washington Avenue (Block 2136, Lot 47), 518 West 161st Street (Block 2119, Lot 28), 544-46 West 163rd Street (Block 2122, Lot 142), and 609 West 158th Street (Block 2136, Lot 5), Community District 12, 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 stated in Section 691 of the General Municipal Law;

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

3. Waive the requirements of Sections 197-c and 197-d of the New York City 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 exempti...