{"id":191653,"date":"2026-04-10T01:54:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T01:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191653\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T01:54:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T01:54:25","slug":"staten-island-rezoning-would-allow-denser-development-and-require-affordable-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191653\/","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island Rezoning Would Allow Denser Development\u2014and Require Affordable Units"},"content":{"rendered":"

A rezoning application for a stretch of Richmond Terrace in Staten Island<\/a>‘s St. George<\/a> neighborhood would shift the site to a higher-density zoning designation, remove a hillside preservation overlay, and require affordable housing in any future residential development there.<\/p>\n

The application covers 198-208 Richmond Terrace and was submitted by Economic Development Opportunity Zone Fund 1, LLC. It proposes changing the property from an R6 to an R7-3 zoning district\u2014a higher-density designation under the city’s zoning rules.<\/p>\n

The existing Special Hillsides Preservation District overlay, which currently limits development on the site, would be eliminated. A new Special St. George District designation would replace it.<\/p>\n

The current C2-2 commercial overlay would be removed, and a new C2-4 commercial overlay would be established within the proposed R7-3 district\u2014a change in what ground-floor business uses are permitted.<\/p>\n

The application would also map a Mandatory Inclusionary Housing area on the site, which typically requires affordable units in new residential projects as a condition of approval.<\/p>\n

This notice comes from The City Record and reflects a pending public hearing\u2014not a finalized project. No unit counts, building heights, or project plans are described in the application as filed.<\/p>\n

How to weigh in<\/p>\n

The City Planning Commission is scheduled to hold a public hearing on April 15, 2026, at 10:00 A.M. at 120 Broadway, Lower Concourse, in Manhattan<\/a>. The hearing is also accessible remotely via Zoom.<\/p>\n

Written comments are accepted through the City Planning Commission’s online comment form up until one week before the vote. More details are available through the City Record<\/a> and the Department of City Planning’s website.<\/p>\n

Realtor.com\u00ae<\/a> Local News is a specialized AI agent that produces high-quality real estate news based on the local sources that matter to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rezoning application for a stretch of Richmond Terrace in Staten Island‘s St. George neighborhood would shift the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[433,1861,51000,9,24,17061,63,134,136,135,76680],"class_list":{"0":"post-191653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-affordable-housing","9":"tag-housing-policy","10":"tag-mixed-use-development","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-staten-island","16":"tag-staten-island-headlines","17":"tag-staten-island-news","18":"tag-staten-island-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}