Mayor Eric Adams this week unveiled NYC's plan to rezone a 13-block stretch of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn to allow for the development of 4,000 new homes, of which 1,550 will be income-restricted.

Known as the Atlantic Avenue Mixed-Use Plan, the area will be rezoned from light manufacturing to residential, allowing housing developers to avoid NYC's time-consuming land use process.

The 13-block stretch of Atlantic Avenue has been zoned M-1 since the 1960s, a designation that only permits low-density commercial and industrial properties.

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