Street Trees Now Mandatory for New Development
Great news out of City Planning for spring — new zoning regulations require a street tree every 25 feet for new developments.
What about places which need trees but are already developed? Just fill out a tree request form from the Parks Department — they will plant it based on your suggestion.
Photo courtesy MaO
That *is* great news! I’m guessing this means more trees on Livingston once the hotel next door gets underway.
Comment by Lance — March 25, 2008 @ 4:34 pm
Most residential developments were planting trees anyway as a requirement of the ZR’s Quality Housing program– now all you have to worry about is following the DOT guidelines and you will see that it won’t be that many more trees. Sorry.
Comment by ex-nyer — March 25, 2008 @ 5:13 pm
what hotel is going to be built on livingston? and where?
Comment by ron — March 25, 2008 @ 10:30 pm
ex-nyer, any amount of more trees is better!
Comment by jen — March 26, 2008 @ 10:02 am
ex-nyer is exactly right. DOT made us TAKE OUT trees we had planned for a job i worked on in LIC. the parks dept has too-strict rules as well. they really make it expensive and cumbersome.
Comment by evil developer — March 26, 2008 @ 11:30 am
Ron, a Cambria Suites Hotel will be going up on the parking lot right next to 110 Livingston.
Here’s a news clipping about it:
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=5&id=14505
Comment by Lance — March 26, 2008 @ 11:35 am