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SHADOWS
Comment 18: CB1 is concerned about the impacts of shadows from the proposed building on
Site 5. (CB1_102)
Response: The EA contains a detailed shadow analysis in Chapter 6. “Shadows.” Tower 5 with the Proposed Amendment would be similar in scale to the previously-approved office tower, but would be approximately 126 feet taller. The bulk form of the proposed residential Tower 5 would be more slender than the commercial tower with floor plates of the maximum square footage. The shadow study
showed that these differences in height and bulk configuration would generally result in incremental shadow from the top 126 feet of the proposed residential tower and small areas of reduced shadow compared to the bulkier office tower,
mostly occurring when shadows fall west in the morning or east in the afternoon.
Overall, given that the residential tower would replace a commercial tower of approximately the same size, no significant additional shadow impacts are anticipated as summarized in the EA.

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In view of Lower Manhattan’s transition from a predominantly office district to a mixed-use neighborhood, the GPP would be amended as follows to permit a building to be developed on Site 5 with residential, fitness and community facility uses, in addition to commercial office space and retail uses:

1. A mixed-use building on Site 5 could be up to approximately 1.345 million square
feet, inclusive of commercial and retail uses, with an up to approximately 1.1 million square-foot residential component, of which a minimum of 25 percent of the units would be permanently affordable housing units; a connection to Liberty Park; and a minimum of approximately 10,000 square feet of community facility space if any residential component is included.

2. LMDC, ESD and the Port Authority would cooperate in developing and implementing the plan for any mixed-use building to be located on Site 5, which could be completed by 2028. If a mixed-use building is to be constructed on Site 5, it is expected that ESD would own Site 5.

3. A set of mixed-use design guidelines would be adopted by ESD in connection with any proposal for a mixed-use building on Site 5. The mixed-use design guidelines would guide future development of any such mixed-use building in a manner consistent with this amendment to the GPP and the goals for any mixed-use commercial, residential, retail and community facility development on Site 5. Following their adoption by ESD, ESD would administer the mixed-use design guidelines.

4. LMDC, acting as lead agency under both NEPA and SEQRA, has prepared an Environmental Assessment (“2021 EA”), made available to the public on November 17, 2021. The 2021 EA concluded that this amendment to the GPP and the possible development of a mixed-use building on Site 5 are not expected to have any significant adverse environmental impacts not previously disclosed in the 2004 Final GEIS. Based on the 2021 EA, LMDCdetermined that a supplemental environmental impact statement is not required under NEPA or SEQRA and issued a Finding of No Significant Impact and Determination of Non-Significance, made available to the public on November 17, 2021.

5. The Southern Site is zoned for commercial, residential and community facility uses under the New York City Zoning Resolution (zoning classification C6-9). Development of a mixed-use building on Site 5 would be exempted from some or all provisions of the Zoning Resolution pursuant to the UDC Act. Any such override of the Zoning Resolution would be determined in connection with the proposal for a mixed-use building on Site 5. Any mixed-use building would be developed in substantial conformance with mixed-use design guidelines that would be consistent with the 2021 EA as it may be supplemented from time to time and would form part of the land use plan and controls for Site 5.

6. The GPP would continue to allow potential future commercial-only development on Site 5. However, with respect to the potential mixed-used development described above, this amendment supersedes any contrary provisions of the GPP. Certain factual conditions in the GPP reflect factual conditions as of the adoption of the 2007 GPP and have not been updated.