Several future and impending construction projects, and a handful of motions, were addressed during Community Board 7’s public meeting last week.

Closest on the horizon is a project to build a parking lot on Briggs Avenue and Kingsbridge Road. Currently a vacant lot, the owner received a zoning variance earlier this month from the city Board of Standards and Appeals, allowing work to proceed.

Sandra Erickson, chair of the committee handling land use, said that the lot’s design is quite attractive. “It blends into the neighborhood well … and it won’t be really boxy,” she said. The proprietor is a veteran in the construction field, according to Erickson, a longtime affordable housing developer.

The lot will provide some relief to the perennial local parking crunch. “It’s such a big problem,” Erickson said. “People will pay for parking rather than getting a ticket.”

The facility will be especially useful when the new Fordham Library Center opens. Now in construction, the Center will house a large auditorium for public programs.

Also discussed was a new, mixed-use housing complex planned for Andrews Avenue between Fordham Road and 183rd Street. New Destiny Housing, a nonprofit developer, is looking to build the 38-unit structure. The organization already runs another complex in the area, according to Erickson.

Half of the facility will be for domestic violence survivors, and the other portion will be available for lower-income families who are from the community. New Destiny representatives presented the plan during the Land Use Committee meeting last month, and Erickson said the overview was “impressive.”

Land Use’s next committee meeting will address Bronx Community College’s (BCC) proposal to build housing and academic space on Hall of Fame Terrace. The college is already seeking developers for the project, but the Board had yet to learn its specifics.

BCC has sought for some time now to move its Center for Sustainable Energy to where an old army facility sits.

The committee expressed concern about a number of new developments springing up in the area without the Board’s knowledge, and will be getting a listing of construction permits from the city.

Erickson said her meeting was especially lively, and she supports the changes recently made to the Board’s committee structure. Last month, the Board’s district manager and chair collapsed the 11 committees into seven, and announced new meeting and reporting guidelines.

Erickson thought the requirements would provide more consistency to the committees. “Change is good,” she said.

But Andrew Laiosa, co-chair of the committee handling safety and transportation, said his meeting hadn’t benefited from the modifications. “There were the two chairs plus one other board member at the meeting,” said Laiosa about his committee, which has nine members total. “How could that be construed as a success?”

Their meeting did include a number of construction updates from the MTA concerning the No. 4 subway line. Renovations to the Kingsbridge Road and 183rd Street stations were postponed until this summer, and the Fordham Road work will finally wrap up this fall. Jacqueline Carter, an MTA representative, also said that stained glass panels will be added to the renovated stations.

The Parks Committee advanced two motions to the public meeting. The Board voted to support a City Council bill that would allow taxes from park concessions to directly benefit the Parks Department instead of going to the city’s general fund, as they do now.

The Board approved an amended version of the resolution that also seeks to examine what vending machines and stands are operating in local parks.

Another approved measure supports the transfer of a Bainbridge Avenue community garden from the city to the Trust for Public Land, a national conservation group. The garden, located near the corner of East 193rd Street, will receive additional money and labor through the sale, according to Barbara Stronczer, the committee’s chair.

The Board also approved a motion sponsored by its Executive Committee to appoint a sergeant-at-arms for their public meetings. It’s “to keep the peace,” said Norah Feury, Board chair. A Board member will be appointed to fill the position each meeting.

A number of officials attended the public meeting, including John Herrold, the new administrator for Van Cortlandt Park. Also in attendance was a graduate class from Lehman College who came as part of their study of public policy.