THROWING SHADE: Two 39-story towers proposed to rise on Franklin
Avenue would destroy half of all plants growing in the Brooklyn Botanic
Garden within 10 years, according to a horticulturalist at the preserve.
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Shadows cast by a proposed
39-story development in Crown
Heights would destroy half of
the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s
collection of rare and exotic
plants within 10 years, according
to one of the horticultural
museum’s chief green thumbs,
who urged members of the City
Planning Commission to seriously
consider the project’s
shadow impact.
“The rezoning proposal
would cause serious, tangible
damage to the gardens,” Rowan
Blaik, director of living collections
at Brooklyn Botanic Garden,
said during a March 12
public-scoping meeting about
the development.
Developer Continuum Company
is seeking permission
to rezone the property at 960
Franklin Ave., the site of an
old spice factory, to pave the
way for two 39-story mixed-use
towers , which together would
host a whopping 1,578 residential
units split evenly between
luxury and below-market-rate
housing.
Garden honchos have for
months claimed that the development
will bathe the green
space in as many as three
hours of additional darkness
per day. Blaik stressed the effect
those shadows would have
on critical growing facilities located
within the green space,
which house a stunning 18,500
plants — including 150 endangered
species — and are necessary
to breed replacements for
the approximately fi ve percent
of plants that die off naturally
around the garden every year.
“These propagation and
growing facilities are the heart
of the garden,” he said.
And because the garden’s
grow houses heavily depend
on sunlight to function, compromising
their ability to soak
up rays could result in catastrophic
loss of plants, according
to Blaik, who said that importing
new species — which
could carry pests and diseases
— is not an option.
“Should we lose propagation
growing facilities, more
than half of our collection will
be gone in a decade,” he said.
“There are no commercial alternatives
to on-site propagation
facilities for botanic gardens.”
A spokeswoman for the
builder, however, insisted that
although it has yet to complete
a full environmental-impact
study of the project, early analysis
shows that the development’s
impact on the garden
would be negligible, citing research
conducted by Continuum’s
own environmental experts.
“Based on preliminary fi ndings,
no signifi cant adverse
shadow impacts are anticipated
on the Botanic Garden,”
said Lupe Todd-Medina.
Todd-Medina further alleged
that her bosses at Continuum
Company attempted to
speak to garden brass about the
development, but that the horticulturists
routinely brushed
their proffered olive branch
aside.
“To date, all outreach and
requests to meet have been rejected,”
she said.
City Planning bigwigs are
accepting written public comments
on the rezoning proposal
through March 25, after which
Continuum honchos must compile
their environmental-impact
statement for the upzoning,
which will then begin its
journey through the lengthy
Uniform Land Use Review Procedure,
where it will again go
before the City Planning Commission,
as well as the local
community board, Council,
and ultimately Mayor DeBlasio.
The public can submit written
comments about the Franklin
Avenue rezoning request to
the Department of City Planning
via e-mail at 19DCP095K_
DL@planning.nyc.gov.
Building gloom
Proposed Franklin Ave. towers would kill half of Botanic
Garden’s plants within a decade, horticulturist claims
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