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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2024

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CITY PLANNING
PUBLIC HEARINGS

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON THE
DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT
CEQR No. 23DCP056R
Arthur Kill Terminal Project Identification CEQR No. 23DCP056R
ULURP Nos. C230225RSR;
N230226RAR; N230227ZRR;
C230228MLR; N230229RAR;
C230231MMR
SEQRA Classification: Type I

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Lead Agency City Planning Commission 120 Broadway, 31st Floor New York, New York 10271

Contact Person Stephanie Shellooe, AICP, Director 212 720-3328
Environmental Assessment and Review Division New York City Department of City Planning The City Planning Commission CPC, acting as lead agency, issued a Notice of Completion on February 2, 2024 for a Draft Environmental Impact Statement DEIS for the Arthur Kill Terminal proposal in accordance with Article 8 of the Environmental Conservation Law.
A public hearing on the DEIS will be held on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, at 10:00 A.M. at the City Planning Commission Hearing Room, located at 120 Broadway, Lower Concourse, New York, NY 10271, in conjunction with the CPCs public hearing pursuant to ULURP. Comments are requested on the DEIS and will be accepted through 5:00 P.M., May 13, 2024. To continue to allow for broad public participation, DCP will hold the public hearing accessible both in-person and remotely via the teleconferencing application Zoom. Anyone attending the meeting in-person is encouraged to wear a mask.
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The Applicant, Arthur Kill Terminal, LLC, is requesting several discretionary actions from City, State and Federal agencies to facilitate the development of an approximately 32.5-acre property the Project Site and an approximately 18-acre dredge area along the Arthur Kill waterfront in Staten Island Community District 3. The Project Site encompasses Block 7620, Lot 1, and Block 7632, Lots 6, 50, 150, and 151. The Project Site is generally bounded by the Outerbridge Crossing to the north, commercial buildings and Arthur Kill Road to the east, the street bed of the mapped but unbuilt Richmond Valley Road and the shoreline of Mill Creek to the south, and the Arthur Kill bulkhead to the west.
The Proposed Actions would facilitate development of the Project Site as Arthur Kill Terminal AKT, an approximate 32.5-acre state-ofthe-art port for the staging, assembly, and pre-commissioning of wind turbine generators WTGs and other offshore wind OSW components the Proposed Project. The Proposed Project would also include the dredging of an approximately 18-acre navigable Dredge Basin to allow cargo vessels to access the berths at the proposed facility. The Proposed Project would include the construction of a port with a 1,365
linear-foot lf quay, an approximately 28.5-acre laydown and storage area upland of the quay, as well as a two-story 48-foot-tall including mechanical bulkhead tenant building located at the northeast corner of the Project Site containing warehouse space and accessory office space, totaling approximately 22,472 gross square feet gsf, with 111
accessory parking spaces, and the adaptive reuse of an existing twostory 33-foot-tall 4,212 gsf residential structure the Cole House at the southeast corner of the site as a visitor center and owner office with 13 accessory parking spaces. All of the proposed uses are allowed under the existing M1-1/M3-1 zoning and the office, warehouse, and visitor spaces are accessory to the operation of the port.The anticipated Build Year is 2026.
Development of the Proposed Project requires approvals from the City Planning Commission CPC for the following discretionary actions:

A City Map amendment to demap, discontinue and close the mapped but unbuilt segment of Richmond Valley Road west of Arthur Kill Road and the related disposition of City-owned land.

A Zoning Text Amendment to Article X, Chapter 7 of the Zoning Resolution ZR to establish 1 goals for the Special South Richmond Development District SRD related to sustainability, resiliency, climate and clean energy objectives ZR 107-00; and 2 a ZR 107-65b authorization to modify natural features regulations and eliminate the requirement of an Area of No Disturbance for certain waterdependent uses located on waterfront zoning lots within manufacturing districts.

A Special Permit pursuant to ZR 107-73 Exceptions to Height Regulations to allow for the installation of light poles with a maximum height of approximately 150 feet.

Two Zoning Authorizations:

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Comments are requested on the DEIS and will be accepted through 5:00 P.M., Monday, May 13, 2024. They can be submitted via email to 23DCP056R_DL@planning.nyc.gov or mailed to Stephanie Shellooe, AICP, Director, Environmental Assessment and Review Division, New York City Department of City Planning, 120 Broadway, 31st Floor, New York, NY 10271.
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In addition, the DEIS and Final Scope of Work are available for download on the project ZAP page: https zap.planning.nyc.gov/
projects/2022R0232. To view the Arthur Kill Terminal Final Scope of Work, DEIS Notice of Completion and full DEIS and Appendix, navigate to the Arthur Kill Terminal project page in ZAP and select Public Documents, then Final Scope of Work, DEIS_Notice of Completion and DEIS_23DCP056R.
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An authorization pursuant to ZR 107-65b Authorization for Modifications of Natural Features, as modified by the proposed zoning text amendment, to allow the removal of trees of six-inch caliper or more and to allow topographic modification of greater than two feet that would otherwise be prohibited under ZR 107-312 Areas not within designated open space, and to provide relief from the SRD requirement to provide an Area of No Disturbance.

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An authorization pursuant to ZR 107-68
Modification of Group Parking Facility to allow 124 accessory off-street parking spaces at the Project Site.

A landfill action to add approximately 1,176,544 cubic feet 43,575 cubic yards; 33,315 cubic meters of fill to create a quay along the Arthur Kill waterway.

In addition, the Applicant proposes to utilize funding from the U.S.
Department of Transportations Maritime Administration MARAD
to construct the Proposed Project. The Proposed Project would also require approvals from, but not necessarily limited to, the United States Army Corps of Engineers USACE, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation NYSDEC, the New York State Department of State DOS, the New York State Office of General Services OGS, and the New York City Department of