Cities aim to “protect” New Yorkers from solar farms, housing
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Cities aim to “protect” New Yorkers from solar farms, housing

Outside New York, battles are fought throughout the state over renewable energy projects – solar parks, battery storage facilities and wind power parks. A bunch of cities have passed moratories while “gathering more information”, which usually means buying time to legislate a permanent ban.

Resistance to battery storage has been focused on the potential for fires, although design enhancements have reduced the error rate at large -scale facilities of 97 percent in five years. The Union for the researchers concerned has a good bit in the security issue here.

Wind -farming opponents do not like how they look, but it sounds shallow so they also talk about birds flying into spinning leaves – even if billions of more birds are killed by cats and by flying into windows.

On the solar front, a project upstate exemplifies the problem. A New York court delivered just an important victory to Freepoint Solar, which is trying to build a 43 hectare Solgård on Mark that it bought in 2016 in Athens, a city in the countryside Greene County.

By returning to a judgment in a lower court, the appellation department panel found that the city of Athens was wrong to reject a variance application for the project, The Times Union reported. The land is zoned rural housing and a local law limits solar farms to commercial and industrial packages.

The basic argument of the city was that the project was not a public necessity as the state had already achieved its 2025 target for solar energy capacity. But that reason ignored the state’s goals for 2030 and thereafter, which will be quite difficult to reach – especially if cities continue to ban sun sets.

The Comprehensive Times Union Article by Olivia Holloway, a Cornell student, included a curious word: it said the city had tried to “protect” its residents from Solgården. You can ask, protect them from what? Manging solar panels? Zero Emissions Energy?

The project requires cleansing of 35 acres of trees, but even the city found that it would have no environmental impact, a lawyer for Freepoint noted. The developer changed the plan to mitigate his effects, including what the locals called view. It is a nice word for their opinion.

What we think about: Housing development still seems to be regarded as a curse, not a blessing, in large parts of Long Island. “The developer has insured society That homes will not be part of the proposal, ”Oyster Bay Town Supervisor told Newsday about plans to rebuild the morbid sunrise. Send your thoughts to [email protected].

One thing we’ve learned: Tuesday’s daily dirt article on Shaya Pragers Flip of 311 East 51st Street noted that Streetasy shows lists for units 1, 1a, 1L and 1r, priced to an average of $ 14,100 per month. But an agent emailed that they are all for the same duplex. This would mean that the building has seven units, not 10, by asking rents totaling $ 38,400, or $ 461,000 per year.

Elsewhere…

The result of the apex development is closely guarded application To rezone 441 and 467 Prospect Avenue in Brooklyn for a 244 unit project will be decided by the February 12 meetings in the City Council’s zone and land use panels. The entire chamber will meet the next day.

“We believe that with the input from many smart and passionate people in the previous months, we are close to arrive at a result that is not perfect, but very good for society and the city of New York in general,” said Apex’s Andrew Esposito, which cooperates with website owner Arrow Linen.

The Council’s member who mainly determines the Chamber’s decision, Shahan Hanif, said to City & State: “I do not want to give away what I have negotiated, but but but There will be a project. There will be housing. And there will be affordable housing. At this stage, I really try to balance the problems that I have heard from my constituents – from the diversity in my constituents – in terms of height, regarding affordable infrastructure upgrades, while balancing the need for urgent to build. “


Rope. Ritchie Torres, a Bronx Democrat that weighs a primary challenge from Gov. Kathy Hochul, has introduced a bill to cancel section 8 financing to landlords who do not install heat sensors in their buildings who receive the federal rental subsidy, Bronx Times Times reported.

If it sounds familiar, it is because Torres and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand introduced such a bill in 2022, after a terrible Bronx fire that killed 17 people. The leaves were ignited by one of the many space heaters used by the tenants to heat what some called their constantly cold building on 333 181st street. The 2022 Bill Passed the chamber but not the Senate.

A spokesman for the owner of 333 181st Street said there was a heating sensor on the boiler and 14 more in the entire building, including on the third floor where the fire started. They showed that the average temperature in the building was 71.2 degrees on fire day and 72.5 in 72 hours before the fire. LiHC Investment Group, Belveron Partners and Camber Property Group acquired the building in a portfolio sales of $ 170 million two years before the fire.

Closing time

Residential: The most expensive housing sale was Thursday $ 22.5 million For a 4,869 square meter, sponsorship sales of a housing unit of 760 Madison Avenue in Lenox Hill. Douglas Ellimans Madeline Hult Elghanayan and Sabrina Saltiel had The list.

Commercial: Today’s most expensive commercial closure was $ 3.3 million For a 4,300 square meter multifamily property at 123 Willoughby Avenue in Clinton Hill. Maria Ryan at Compass had The list.

New in the market: The highest price for a residential property that hit the market was $ 26 million For a 6,500 square meter location at 535 West End Avenue on Upper West Side. Steven Cohen from Douglas Elliman has the list.

– Matthew Elo