A Community Board 6 committee last week gave its blessing to a once controversial Cobble Hill development at 110 Amity Street.
At its May 29 meeting, the Land Use/Landmarks Committee unanimously approved the project, which it reconsidered having rejected it just a week earlier.
Plans initially called for construction of six four-story townhouses with roof decks built on a mews created in back of the vacant property behind 110 Amity, the former Long Island College Hospital’s Lamm Institute. It also called for the renovation of the Lamm building.
In January, the city’s Landmarks Preservation Committee unanimously rejected the plan, sending it back to Williamsburg-based Lucky Boy Development and Manhattan-based Time Equities for significant revision.
The revised plan proposes townhouses said to be more in character with the neighborhood, eschewing zinc accented exteriors for brick. The committee also requested that the new homes be lowered by one story. The mews design was also tweaked, looking more like an alleyway.
“We are pleased that the developer listened to the community. We are pleased that zinc siding was replaced by brick, and pleased with many of the features of the building,” said Jeff Strabone, a member of the community board and the president of the Cobble Hill Association (CHA).
Strabone said the only remaining reservations concerned the height and design of the rear of the buildings.
No notice was given by the community board that the developer would be returning to the committee so soon, and their arrival was not listed on the board’s online calendar. In his capacity as CHA president, Strabone said he notified residents living near the project about the meeting.
No objections from the audience were voiced at the committee’s hearing, which was slated as a first chance to see the city’s plan to rezone the area near the Gowanus Canal.
The matter will next go before the Landmarks Preservation Commission, which has yet to set a date.
