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| Special Purpose Districts: OVERVIEW |
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The City Planning Commission has been
designating special zoning districts since
1969 to achieve specific planning and
urban design objectives in defined areas with unique
characteristics. Each special district designated by
the Commission stipulates zoning requirements
and/or zoning incentives tailored to distinctive
qualities that may not lend themselves to generalized
zoning and standard development.
While special districts remain a widely used
affirmative zoning technique in New York City,
they have changed over time as new zoning tools
became available. Some special districts have been
eliminated; others have been modified and absorbed
within new special districts. Today, increasingly
fine-tuned contextual zoning districts can often
preserve a neighborhood’s special character without
need for special district zoning.
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