With the City Council’s approval yesterday for the necessary rezoning, developer Sheldon Solow can move forward with plans to build seven towers between East 35th and 41st streets along First Avenue. The development will also include five acres of public space, a new kindergarten through-eighth-grade public school with 630 students, and affordable housing units.

Mr. Solow’s success in securing permission for the development came after a long series of negotiations with community groups and elected officials, who raised objections about the size of the towers. “This was a tough negotiation and one in which there was a lot of back and forth with the community and the developer,” the speaker of the City Council, Christine Quinn, said yesterday. She said the agreement, which includes lowering some of the towers’ height, “greatly reduces the environmental, traffic, and shadow impacts that the original plan had in it.”

Council Member Dan Garodnick, whose district includes the development and who has criticized it in the past, said yesterday that the approved project “will revitalize the East Side of Manhattan.”