Urban Design - Presentation Boards

PLEASE let this NOT be another HOAX on the community. I have been a LUCKY (black) HOMEOWNER since 1979!

Lot's O'Promises, but very little tangible feedback from the days of Bruce Ratner and everyone else who came after him. I'm sad to see so many of my neighbors disappear (from those who believed in the "TRI-BLOCK Assoc" - which promised "co-op home-ownership to low income"/ til today). Lots' O civil services worker (with good salaries) still RENTING on Ft. Greene Place. Lot's of "others" moving into the neighborhood.

Read upon your history of the neighborhood. thx!

Focus of the short term agenda should be political pressure via gubernatorial race to shift control and oversight to NYC away from NYS

Suggested SLOW ZONE for Dean Street

Conundrum of NYPD, FDNY, School and uses of Dean Playground by organized and neighborhood groups = unsafe

Will there be input into the design and bulk of site 5 - ULURP - public review?

Jon M's designs were met with general enthusiasm

Brooklyn Bears concern that even once the bulk is shifted from plaza to site 5 could a developer go back and build on the plaza?

• What are steps to accomplish any improvements that community proposes?
• Who has jurisdiction over future project changes?
• Community benefits must be binding
• Concern about site 5 impact on Community Garden. Can we stop transfer of FAR to site 5?
• We should work to make sure the previous affordable housing commitments are kept as much as possible rather than prevent any more housing at all.
• Concern about the lack of spaces for art (galleries, performing art venues smaller than an arena)

Rickie James concerned about the QOL when construction is complete.

John: the City has done a poor job with Slow Streets.

Howard mentioned soft mitigations for the Boerum Hill Slow Zone gateways were destroyed in the first months of the program reducing the visibility of the program.

Ruth Gastel of Montgomery Placed asked where does the traffic go if you slow the streets. Traffic on her street is jammed now during the pandemic.

John – you have to look at traffic flow. Build bigger streets and you get more traffic.

May Taliaferrow, of Pacific Street on the prospective tower block: Fourth Avenue has been effectively slowed down. On Pacific the QOL has deteriorated, making is a mini-Times Square, congestion and horn honking. Pacific may be slowed in the BS plan but there will still be a lot of traffic and congestion.

John: making a closed street for ticket holders would eliminate idling vehicles.

May: trash and urination on our streets.

Jennifer: where is the Barclays and Chic-Filet when cleaning is needed.

Sally Smith: very problematic, traffic and cleanliness.

Sharon Wedderburn: we were told this was going to be worked out. Is a slow street the solution?

Ruth Gastel: does slow street push traffic elsewhere?

John: some may but the street is not closed just slower.

Howard: this area is one of the most congested. Atlantic and Flatbush is one of the most difficult intersections in Brooklyn. They don’t have a solution. We should focus on getting the mitigations we need. Someone asked what does it take? Howard suggested working with the Council Member and District Manager to connect directly to the source of the problem. Direct ask to solve a single problem.

Rickie: covid has slowed down the project which may give us opportunities.

• Need to remove all municipal employee parking from local streets/sidewalks which is estimated to be 60-80 vehicles based on informal windshield placard counts in order to “reclaim the streets from municipal employees”

• Importance of preserving/renovating the Pacific Branch library given its distinction as the first Carnegie library in Brooklyn. DeBlasio administration has allocated $15 million for its modernization

• Need for urban design principles to reflect shift in paradigm towards more shared streets
• Over last several years and especially due to COVID, public expects to be able to use the streets for 'public purposes' not just cars
• Need to take into account increased use of on-demand car services and deliveries as part of our street design
• Need to 'day light'/increase flow between Atlantic Avenue, 4th Avenue and Flatbush. No street wall construction
• Need to increase pedestrian access in area around Atlantic, 4th and Flatbush

Ron S. Case to be made to have via contractual arrangement have state convey to the City

The street may be too narrow R Shiffman

Way too much action to have a school and fire department on Dean Street. Judy Mann

Jon Crow...asking for more insanity,

Ethel Tyus, is it possible to make it a slow zone

Rendering are promising visually. How will developers react to such a contrast in building typology with the tower and the lower affordable units?

need clarity on making a partial playstreet

Must talk about how the ride-share and the delivery boom industries impact the future design/development in congruence with pedestrian trends.

great idea to have cars crossing the sidewalk and moving at the speed that people walk. works well in europe. and wherever it has been used.

John Crow, Brooklyn Bear's community garden. If taking away Plaza and switching to Site 5 will the arena plaza be able to be built upon? Want it to remain permanently as a plaza.

Pacific Street

gib"s presentation was outstanding. The urban design proposals provide a urban design framework for participation which should lead to some substantive discussions but implemtation will still be a political struggle.

Yes I can see this. Very interesting

Taking notes

Bernell notes