Not until late 1987 did Community Board 4 endorse the project, which required a variance because the site lies in a manufacturing zone.
The current zoning is M-1, a manufacturing zone that bars residential use.
Mr. Rose has already recommended that light manufacturing zones should be opened to social service centers.
The neighbors are living in a manufacturing zone, not Park Avenue.
They doubt that factories will help the rural areas, since the manufacturing zones are not nearby.
He submitted a proposal for a special manufacturing zone with special tax incentives.
As long as their needs are compatible with how the community sees the use of the manufacturing zone, it could be a good thing.
Some rules that applied to the manufacturing zones never really had a chance to succeed.
That was a crucial development in the story of how the manufacturing zones changed character.
The two structures are in a manufacturing zone and may legally be converted into a transient shelter.
