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January 30, 2006
Real FAR
Brooklyn Views is still thinking about Atlantic Yards's Floor Area Ratio (FAR), and makes two important points.
The basketball arena's density is not measureable, and therefore reduces the average density of the rest of the site.
Since the FAR calculated on a superblock allows for more actual density than the FAR for a regular street block, only a recalculated FAR, without including the streets that Ratner hopes to take, should be used to compare the Atlantic Yards FAR to the existing Downtown Brooklyn plan and the density NY City had previously planned for the site.
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NoLandGrab: Since Floor Area Ratio usually makes folks' eyes glaze over, it is great to have someone around to demystify the topic and explain what Forest City Ratner and the State might be up to while the rest of us have been in an urban-planning coma.
Posted by lumi at January 30, 2006 7:35 AM