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Use Review Procedures ULURP as well as discretionary actions from New York State and the United States Army Corp of Engineers USACE. A public hearing on the DEIS will be held at a later date to be announced, in conjunction with the City Planning Commissions citywide public hearing pursuant to ULURP. Advance notice will be given of the time and place of the hearing. Written comments on the DEIS are requested and would be received and considered by the Lead Agency until the 10th calendar day following the close of the public hearing.
Cherry Street Owner, LLC, Two Bridges Associates, LP and LE1 Sub LLC the Applicants are requesting discretionary approvals the proposed actions to facilitate a mixed-use development on several parcels within the Two Bridges Large Scale Residential Development Two Bridges LSRD. The Two Bridges LSRD is bounded by the midblock area between Clinton Street and Montgomery Street; Cherry, Clinton, and South Streets; and midblock between Rutgers Slip and Pike Slip, within the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan in Community District CD 3.
The three project sitesSites 4 4A/4B, 5, and 6Aare located in a C6-4 zoning district. The numbering of the sites in this document corresponds with that used in the Two Bridges LSRD. Site 4 4A/4B, controlled by Cherry Street Owner, LLC, occupies the northeast corner of Block 248, Lots 15, 70, and 76. Site 5, owned by Two Bridges Associates, LP, occupies Block 247, Lots 1 and 2. Site 6A is owned by LE1 Sub LLC and occupies Block 246, Lot 5. C6-4 districts are commercial districts that permit a maximum floor area ratio FAR of 10.0 for commercial, community facility, or residential uses or up to 12.0 FAR with inclusionary housing.
The proposed development would include a total of approximately 2,527,727 gross square feet gsf of new residential space up to 2,775 new dwellings, of which 25 percent or up to 694 units would be designated as permanently affordable, including approximately 200
new units of low-income senior housing, approximately 10,858 gsf of retail space, approximately 17,028 gsf of community facility space, and approximately 33,550 square feet sf of publicly accessible open space, across three development sites. The three proposed projects have separate developers, approvals, and financing; however, they are being considered together for environmental review purposes since all three project sites are located within the Two Bridges LSRD and would be developed during the same construction period. As such, the DEIS
evaluates the potential environmental impacts of the three proposed projects cumulatively.
The proposed projects each require a minor modification to the previously approved Two Bridges LSRD originally approved by CP21885; last amended by M 120183 ZSM. The proposed modifications to the Two Bridges LSRD Special Permit would enable the development of three new mixed-use buildings within the Two Bridges LSRD. The new mixed-use developments on each of the three project sites would comply with the underlying C6-4 district regulations applicable to the sites under the Zoning Resolution, and no discretionary use or bulk waivers would be required to facilitate the proposed projects. However, the previously approved Two Bridges LSRD site plans restrict the maximum developable floor area, lot coverage, location of buildings, and other features of development on the Two Bridges LSRD sites. The requested minor modifications would modify the approved site plans to enable the proposed developments to be constructed within the Two Bridges LSRD boundary, utilizing unused existing floor area.
Separate from the minor modification, and not subject to environmental review, the Site 6A project also would require a certification pursuant to Section 32-435 of the Zoning Resolution of the City of New York to waive the ground-floor retail requirement along Clinton Street, a wide street as defined in the Zoning Resolution.
Absent the proposed actions, no changes would be made to the project sites. A future build year of 2021 is examined to assess the potential impacts of the proposed actions.
The DEIS identifies potential significant adverse impacts related to community facilities child care and elementary schools, open space, shadows, transportation traffic, pedestrians flows, and transit, and Construction traffic and noise.
Potential mitigation measures for community facilities include provision of suitable space on-site for a child care center, provision of a suitable location off-site and within a reasonable distance at a rate affordable to ACS providers, or funding or making program or physical improvements to support adding capacity to existing facilities if determined feasible through consultation with ACS, or providing a new child care facility within or near the project sites. The Restrictive Declarations for the proposed projects would require the applicants to work with ACS to consider the need for and the implementation of one or more measures as listed above to provide additional capacity, if required, to mitigate the significant adverse impact to publicly funded child care facilities within the 1-mile study area or within Community Board 3. Absent the implementation of such mitigation measures, if needed, the proposed projects would have an unmitigated significant adverse impact on publicly funded child care facilities.

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Potential mitigation measures for schools may include, but are not limited to, relocating administrative functions to another site; making space within the buildings associated with the proposed projects or elsewhere in the school study area available to DOE; and/or restructuring or reprogramming existing school space within a district.
Other measures may be identified in consultation with DOE and SCA
that would not create additional capacity but may nevertheless serve to alleviate capacity constraints. Absent the implementation of such measures, if needed, the proposed projects would have an unmitigated significant adverse impact on public elementary schools.
Potential mitigation measures for the open space impacts are being explored by the applicants in consultation with DCP and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation NYC Parks and will be refined between the DEIS and FEIS. Funding for renovation of existing open spaces in the vicinity of the project sites has been identified as a potentially practicable mitigation measure. If the significant adverse impacts on open space would not be fully mitigated, the proposed projects would result in unmitigated significant adverse impacts on open space.
Potential mitigation measures for the shadows impacts are being explored by the applicants in consultation with DCP and NYC Parks, and will be refined between the DEIS and FEIS. Potential mitigation measures include dedicated funding for enhanced maintenance at the Cherry Clinton Playground and the Lillian D. Wald Playground.
If feasible mitigation measures are identified, the impacts would be considered partially mitigated. As the significant adverse shadows impacts would not be fully mitigated, the proposed projects would result in unmitigated significant adverse shadows impacts to these resources.
The majority of the locations where significant adverse traffic impacts are predicted to occur could be fully mitigated with the implementation of standard traffic mitigation measures e.g., signal timing changes and lane restriping. The proposed traffic mitigation measures would be subject to approval by NYCDOT. If these measures are deemed infeasible and no alternative mitigation measures can be identified, then the identified significant adverse traffic impacts would be unmitigated. The significant adverse traffic impacts at the South Street and Montgomery Street intersection and at the Chatham Square and Worth Street/Oliver Street intersection could not be mitigated; these intersections are projected to experience unmitigated significant adverse traffic impacts. The mitigation measures considered for the proposed projects include building a new subway entrance at the northeast corner of Rutgers Street and Madison Street and widening the street-level stairway and adjoining mezzanine level stairway. These measures would fully mitigate the identified significant adverse impacts. Coupled with these stairway improvements would be two new elevators that would make the station ADA-compliant for vertical circulation. NYCT has performed conceptual engineering studies and at this point in time the mitigation measures appear to be feasible. If during later engineering phases these measures are deemed infeasible and no alternative mitigation measures can be identified, then the significant adverse stairway impacts would be unmitigated.
The potential pedestrian mitigation measures consist of signal timing changes and crosswalk widening that are generally considered feasible, and widening the width of the north sidewalk at the northeast corner of Rutgers Street and Madison Street. Similar to traffic, the proposed pedestrian mitigation measures would be subject to approval by NYCDOT. Absent NYCDOT approval, the significant adverse pedestrian impacts would remain unmitigated.
The traffic and pedestrian mitigation measures identified in Transportation for the full build-out of the proposed projects could be implemented at any time during the construction period at the discretion of NYCDOT to address actual conditions experienced at that time.
No feasible and practicable mitigation measures have been identified that would fully mitigate the construction-period noise impacts. The construction-period noise impacts would remain unmitigated.
The potential mitigation measures described above will be further refined and additional improvements will also be explored between DEIS and FEIS. If the proposed mitigation measures are determined to be infeasible, the significant adverse impacts would remain unmitigated. The DEIS identifies potentially unavoidable significant adverse impacts in the areas of community facilities child care and elementary schools, open space, shadows, transportation, and construction. The DEIS evaluates two alternatives to the proposed action: a No Action Alternative, and a No Unmitigated Significant Adverse Impact Alternative.
Copies of the DEIS may be obtained from the Environmental Assessment and Review Division, New York City Department of City Planning, 120 Broadway, 31st Floor, New York, NY 10271, Olga Abinader, Acting Director 212 720-3493; or from the Office of Environmental Coordination, 100 Gold Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10038, Hilary Semel, Director 212 788-9956; and on the New York City Department of City Plannings website, located at https www1.
nyc.gov/site/planning/applicants/eis-documents.page.

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