To this end, one of the most strategic port assets is the port city interface – waterfront zones in which the geography of the port and its city meet each other.
The motel, a nonconforming use, was grandfathered in when the current Waterfront Business Zone was created in 1987.
In 2008, the program was revised so that all of Manhattan and parts of the Brooklyn and Queens waterfront became excluded zones, meaning that to get the 421-a tax abatement, developers would have to build affordable housing — 80/20 or some other variant — in parts of the city where it had not been the norm.
The Trump Organization, he said, has been waiting for the city's assurance that it would assume liability for any accidents that occur on the path, which would run between a crumbling waterfront and a construction zone.
The data from the Harderwijk waterfront, the Zeewolde coastal zone, and the Kruibeke-Bazel-Rupelmonde flood control area case studies enabled identification of project-level variables that were influential in a successful implementation outcome.
In the shadow of the freeway, the Embarcadero waterfront became an urban dead zone, used mostly for parking cars in empty buildings.
In 2001 and 2002, the board received 50 applications to build new apartment buildings or convert large warehouses and factories to apartments in manufacturing zones along the waterfront in Williamsburg and Greenpoint and in nearby areas, according to a study by the Municipal Art Society, a civic group that focuses on preservation and planning.
He doesn't address the romance of the open sea so much as the border zone of the waterfronts and their shifting nature, both physically and socioeconomically.
A large proportion of Hong Kong's 'Open Space' zones, particularly those with waterfront access, were located close to upmarket, low-density housing areas and mixed commercial-business zones, rather than to high-density mass housing zones.
Even AT&T Park, the city's waterfront stadium, can be a dead zone.
