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Bx 2 DAILY NEWS Sunday, November 29. 1987 P' mm ONLY City mngM lb NO C0MM5 TfiA'F nc CREEN FROM PAGE ONE build to a size or usage not permitted under existing zoning, the commission's "encouragement" carries a good deal of weight Donald Trump has promised to ere-, ate a green waterfront strip to link Riverside Park with a park proposed-for the Javits Convention Center, if he gets zoning concessions so that he can start building, the controversial Television City, a complex on the Hudson River along the old railroad yards between 72d and 59th Sts. What it would include The complex would include the world's tallest building at 152 stories, a small park between 63d and 64th Sts. and public walkways to and from the waterfront green and West End according to Norman Levine, vice president and project director for Television City. It also will give access to the waterside through 61st, 65th and 68th he said.

Trump still needs major zoning concessions from the city in order to start building. Developer Geoffrey Glick has agreed to build a Bryant Park type of 1 for an unbroken East River esplanade reaching from 125th St to the Battery. Developers on the Hudson River side will include promenades and parks in their projects to link up with Riverside. Park to eventually give Manhattan a completely green outline. Some segments exist Some segments of the long already exist.

The building group of York 72 Associates, which previously built a stretch from to 81st is about to start work on the strip from 125th to 94th according to spokeswoman Maxine Fass. Both projects are in conjunction with adjacent developments for which -zoning variations were required. "i Glick has begun work on a stretch between 36th and 38th and another developer, Glenwood Management is to extend strips between 90th and 94th Sts. and 63d and 71st Sts, In the Bronx, the developing firm of Housing Futures Inc. plans to create a park when it builds a proposed condo complex on the site of the Shorehaven Beach Club'.

Next door, another developer, Nelson Equities, proposes to enlarge Castle Hill Park when the firm develops a condo on the site of the old Castle Hill Beach Club. A $2.2 million rehabilitation of the East River's 107th St Pier, 270 feet long and 60 feet wide, now under way, will have lights, benches and decorations, and concerts and entertainments will be presented. question is, can we provide for small craft, canoes, kayaks, rowboats, power boats and fishing facilities, in a waterfront recreation site?" Chapin asked, recalling a trip last year a harbor park in Baltimore, full of pad- irt amaa mv rnm linn ri rmnttu inHiiHoc coufrl narks, but clean-UD of bike DathS (such as the one shown above near the Beft Parkway), improvement of existing parks, and thP ffreenine of other waterfront areas are being contemplated. c- 9 JHtlHVIVW facility under Queensboro linage, on the Manhattan side, in conjunction with a development for which he is seeking a zoning accommodation, Chapin said. People gape when they hear that and ask, "A park under a bridge?" said Chapin.

"We've got to use available space," she replies. "The private sector can build and maintain where the city can't, so we need to give incentives and bonuses to create new parks." The green schemes include plans I the waterfront as to the corner grocery," observed Sylvia Deytsch, the planning commissioner. "We're doing it slowly but surely, as development proposals come before us and we require waterfront access in the plans. "However, we are guided by the essential principle of what is an 'appropriate' use for the waterfront A lot of disused piers were appropriate -20 years ago, when they were needed for deliveries. We're not going to dislodge anyone who is there legally, but we will seize opportunities to create public access when there is a proposal for a new development" she said.

Developers in "opportunity areas have been, by and large, amenable," she said. She cited Sheepshead Bay, Manhattan Beach and Oriental Beach as "opportunity areas" to be expanded as recreational strips, although planning for much of Brooklyn's waterfront is hampered by a constant need to repair bulkheads, she added. The shorefront north of Battery Park City has been a problem since the original Westway blueprints were washed out, she said. "Piers are not being used or are falling down, and property is still privately leased, but we'll get in there when we have the opportunity," she said. She said a bike path is an option.

"The bottom line is not just to preserve the waterfront but to make, it more usable," she said, noting that there is a lot of recreational planning on the boards for Stateh Island's The notion of a green ribbon around the boroughs was broached to Henry Stern, commissioner of the Depart- ment of Parks and Recreation, by former Planning Commission chief Herbert Sturz soon after he took office on Jan. 1, 1980. He left the post on Dec. 31,1986. "The idea of ringing the city's waterfront with esplanades seemed a healthy thing," Sturz said last week.

The project got under way "with only minor problems with real estate people," he said. "The most helpful development for parks," Stern said, "is recognition by city planners that there is a new public awareness of the importance of the waterfront and that park improvements are good for everyone. "Looking back, it was a mistake years ago for the city not to buy land that was readily available during the fiscal crisis of the 1970s, but the city also had no money to buy land," Stern noted. "Indications now are such that we are looking to a period of land acquisition. The Bronx River, should be parks it is a natural parkway." However, he added, "Situations involving private property and city-owned land controlled by agencies will be hard to deal with.

The Sanitation Department's sewage-treatment plant in Hunts Point in the Bronx has security needs; they realty can't allow public access." DAILY NEWS VICfOfI CAMTONK Several city-owned sites along the Bronx waterside contain facilities for other city agencies and will be difficult to include in the proposed green border. Shaded areas are existing parkland; light line are planned projects. 1. Pelham Bay Park; Orchard Beach. 2.

Ferry Point Park; to be extended along both sides of Pugsleys Creek by Shorehaven developer, with esplanade on north side. 3. Castle Hill Park; Clason's Point Park, to be expanded by Shorehaven developer, i 4. Esplanade to be built by city between Clason's Point Park and Clason Beach Club. 8.

Soundvlew Park. Hunts Point Park. T. Randalls Island Park; Wards Island Park. B.

Parks under Madison McCombs Dam Bridge, Hamilton and Washington bridges. t. Clemente State Park. tnorth sjipre. "We to.make it as, easy to, get to i.