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Zoning Text Amendment Application
Alexa Avilés and Assemblymember Marcela Mitaynes join with Eddie Bautista, New York City Environmental Justice Alliance, UPROSE, El Puente, Red Hook Initiative and THE POINT CDC to respectfully submit this Zoning Resolution text amendment application due to their concerns about the rapid proliferation of last-mile warehouses and related impacts on their members and constituents. Truck traffic arising from last-mile warehouse activity creates adverse environmental, health, noise, and safety impacts on nearby residential communities, which already experience high levels of diesel truck pollution and congestion. New York City’s Zoning Resolution permits “warehouses” in all manufacturing districts and C8 commercial districts as-of-right, and as a result, the City has no opportunity to plan for the installation of these facilities.
The operations and impacts of last-mile warehouses—which receive a high volume of goods and sort them for direct delivery to consumers—are fundamentally different in scale from traditional warehouse uses due to the high volume of product loading and unloading and product flow velocity, involving a massive increase in truck trips to and from the facility compared to traditional warehouses. However, the Zoning Resolution does not distinguish between last-mile and traditional warehouses. Amending the text of the Zoning Resolution to require special permits for last-mile warehouses would provide opportunities for the City to plan for the expansion of this new industry, prevent clustering of facilities and undue road congestion, and mitigate the negative impacts of last-mile warehouses.
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