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Massive Two Bridges projects can move forward


AUGUST 27, 2020
BY DEVIN GANNON

Three projects that include the construction of four towers and the creation of nearly 3,000 housing units in Two Bridges meet all zoning requirements and can move forward, an appeals court ruled Thursday. The Appellate Division of State Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s ruling that had stopped the Manhattan megaproject from going ahead.

Approved by the City Planning Commission in 2018, the projects include a 77-story tower at 247 Cherry Street developed by JDS Development, two 60-story towers at 260 South Street from L+M Partners and CIM Group, and a 724-foot tall building at 259 Clinton Street from Starrett Corporation. In total, the four towers would yield 2,700 new units of housing, with 25 percent of them affordable.

.....in a unanimous decision, the court on Thursday wrote “the buildings described in the applications did not conflict with applicable zoning requirements and that, therefore, the CPC’s approval of the applications has a rational basis and is not contrary to law.”

They wrote that the large-scale residential district (LSRD) proposed and the height of the towers and resulting bulk comply with applicable zoning resolution provisions and a special permit is not required.

“The history of the Two Bridges LSRD site plan, which has been modified at least six times since 1973 without the issuance of a special permit, negates petitioners’ claim that, once a special permit has been issued, a new special permit and ULURP are required for further modifications to a LSRD site plan, even in the absence of a conflict with applicable ZR provisions,” the decision reads.