BFC Partners has reworked redevelopment plans for the Towne Gardens Plaza site at William and Jefferson Avenue on the near East Side. The previously-approved two phase project with 310 residential units and 30,000 square feet of commercial and community space featuring a seven-story building. BFC is now proposing for a first phase of 149 units in a five-story building replacing the existing retail building on the site and an undefined second phase that would be built along the Jefferson Avenue frontage. A McDonald’s at the William/Jefferson corner under separate ownership will remain.
Three City approvals are required. From the project application:
First, because the revised Phase I plan modifies the previously approved site plan, Major Site Plan approval is required pursuant to UDO 1 1.3.7. Given the scope of the proposed changes, the Applicant anticipates that the City Planning Board may determine that the matter constitutes a new major site plan review application rather than an amendment to the prior approval, and the Applicant has assembled a complete submission package so that the Board may process the Application as such.
Second, so that the Phase I development parcel may be separated from the future Phase 2 parcel and to rearrange the existing McDonald’s restaurant property line, the Property will be subdivided, requiring Major Subdivision approval pursuant to UDO 11.5…