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What is NYC ZR § 121-00?

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This section establishes the Special Midtown South Mixed Use District to promote public health, safety, and welfare. It aims to retain industries, preserve diverse business spaces, establish urban character, encourage housing growth, and optimize land use to protect tax revenues. Applies to property operators in the Midtown South District.

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§ 121-00 GENERAL PURPOSES

ZR § 121-00

The “Special Midtown South Mixed Use District” established in this Resolution is designed to promote and protect public health, safety, and general welfare. These general goals include, among others, the following specific purposes:

to retain adequate wage and job-producing industries within the Midtown South District;

to preserve a variety of types of space for a diversity of businesses that service the Midtown South District and the city;

to establish an appropriate urban scale and visual character within the Midtown South District;

to provide opportunities for housing growth through office to residential conversions and new development; and

to promote the most desirable use of land within the district, to conserve the value of land and buildings, and thereby protect the City’s tax revenues.

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