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Central City has given preliminary approval to allowing strip clubs to operate in industrial zones. The council will hold a public hearing on the ordinance Sept. 3. (Rick T. Wilking, Getty Images) ...
After three years, a plan to rezone part of Brooklyn’s industrial sector is finally seeing the light of day. On November 19, the Department of City Planning released the North Brooklyn Industry and ...
The City Planning department released a guide for future development in the protected industrial part of Gowanus just outside of the neighborhood’s proposed residential rezoning area Monday. The ...
First came the city’s late 1980s increase in its garbage-dumping fees and the subsequent decision to close Fresh Kills, which led to an eruption of new waste transfer stations in M-zones all over the ...
Industrial tax lots can't contain more than one business per lot, must follow city rules against light pollution and in parts of the zone must manufacture indoors. Performance standards ...
In a move to protect IBZs, the City Council has proposed $1.4 million in baseline funding in its recently-released budget response, an set level that Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito argued would allo… ...
Mayor and City Council Agree to Restrict Hotels in Industrial Business Zones It's about to get harder to build hotels within the city's manufacturing districts. By Jillian Jorgensen • 11/03/15 6 ...
City Solicitor Richard Tonetta, at the time, told the council the concept was “to square off the industrial zone in that area and take advantage of the Route 55 interchange and new road ...