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Up Against the Wall: Carroll Gardens 360 Smith Artist Strikes Again

July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Yesterday, a “zoning text amendment” that redefines very narrow streets in Carroll Gardens as being narrow for zoning purposes, cutting the height of buildings that can be built on them, passed the City Planning Commission by a unanimous vote. It goes to the City Council on July 23, where easy approval is expected. In the meantime, one of the artists behind the Democracy Wall at the controversial development at 360 Smith Street, which sparked some of the neighborhood activism that lead to the zoning text amendment and the bigger push for a neighborhood downzoning, has struck again. This is a photo a new anti-development poster naming 360 Smith Street, the Clarett Group’s 340 Court Street project and Public Places as examples of “overdevelopment” in Carroll Gardens. The poster, we are told, is “on a narrow street,” the artist joked in an email. We are guessing this means Second Place, which is one of the “narrow streets” on which the 360 Smith development sit. The building would exceed the building height allowed on a narrow street after the zoning text change. Oliver House, at it’s called, has its own website to keep the neighborhood posted on construction activity.

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