 | | | PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS
- Borough: Queens
- A linchpin of the Mayor’s housing plan, primarily targeting middle-income residents
- Development to include ground-floor retail, space for public and community facilities, and parking for residents and visitors
- Signature waterfront park and other open spaces
- A major amenity for Western Queens
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The Project
Hunter's Point South is a proposed mixed-use, middle-income housing development situated on approximately 30 acres of prime waterfront property in Long Island City, Queens. Up to 5,000 housing units, 60 percent of which will be affordable to middle income families, are expected to be developed on the site.
The new units are a part of Mayor Bloomberg's $7.5 billion New Housing Marketplace Plan to build and preserve 165,000 units of affordable housing over ten years - the largest municipal affordable plan in the nation. Please click here to download more information on the affordable hosuing being propsoed at the project.
In addition to housing, the Hunter's Point South will also include retail space, community/cultural facilities, school space, parking and a new continuous waterfront park.
Development Plan
An inter-agency team led by NYCEDC has been working with community representatives to develop the Plan for the site, in addition to key adjacent private parcels.
Some of the design principles informing the development of Hunter's Point South include:
- Establish and protect views
- Create a dynamic waterfront park
- Develop pedestrian and bicycle friendly streetscapes
- Ensure a smooth transition from Hunter's Point neighborhood to waterfront
- Create a new urban fabric
- Present a varied and compelling skyline
- Incorporate high quality and sustainable design practices
- Encourage alternative transportation
View a September 2007 Draft site plan image (PDF 3.1 MB) to see proposed uses for the space in Hunter's Point South.
Community Involvement
Queens Community Board 2 established a Hunter's Point South Subcommittee and has held meetings with the City’s interagency team to discuss planning for Hunter's Point South. Presentation materials from those meetings are available for download below.
The City's interagency team has met with the Land Use Committee and full board of Queens Community Board 2. A public meeting also took place in Long Island City on October 18, 2007.
The Hunter's Point South project is subject to a formal public review process through the City’s Uniform Land Use Review Process (ULURP) and includes the completion of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).
Environmental Review
The Hunter's Point South project will be subject to an environmental review process pursuant to the Rules of Procedure of City Environmental Quality Review (CEQR). Under CEQR regulations, proposed projects which involve discretionary government actions (e.g., re-zoning, street mapping) require the preparation of an Environmental Assessment Statement (EAS) to determine if there exists the potential for significant environmental impacts from the proposed project. The Hunter’s Point South project is anticipated involve several public actions which require environmental review, including zoning text amendments, zoning map amendments, de-mapping streets, and mapping of new streets and parks. Together these actions are referred to as the Hunter’s Point South Rezoning & Related Actions.
The Office of the Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding is the lead agency charged with overseeing the EAS/EIS for the project. If the lead agency reviews the EAS and determines that there exists potential for significant environmental impacts, the agency issues a Positive Declaration and directs the completion of a Draft Scope of Work for the preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). The Office of the Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding has completed the EAS and issued a Positive Declaration and Draft Scope of Work, which can be dowloaded below. Public scoping sessions were held on Thursday, November 15, 2007, to provide the public with the opportunity to comment on the Draft Scope of Work to be used to develop the EIS for the project.
On March 28, 2008, the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding issued a Final Scope of Work. On April 4, 2008, the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding issued a Draft Environmental Impact Statement. All documents are available for download below.
Upcoming Meetings
April 21, 2008
at 1:00pm - full agenda
ULURP CERTIFICATION
City Planning Commisssion
NYC Department of City Planning
22 Reade Street
New York, NY 10007-1216
Contact Information
For more information regarding Hunter's Point South or to provide feedback, we invite you to contact us via email at HuntersPointSouth@nycedc.com. |