Four developments exceeding zoning get green light to proceed over community objection. In June 2005, the City Council rezoned 120 blocks of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, removing the ability to construct large as-of-right residential towers without any height limit along Bensonhurst’s smaller residential streets. 2 CityLand 86 ( July 15, 2005) .

Four developers with projects underway timely sought BSA’s approval to grandfather their development plans and allow construction to proceed on buildings that violated the new down-zoning. The four projects included a 20-unit, five-story structure at 62 1 0 24th Avenue, a 12-unit, five-story development on West 1 0th Street between Quentin Road and Avenue P, a six-story mixed-use project at 6422 Bay Parkway, and a 20-unit, seven-story structure at 103 Quentin Road.

Four developers with projects underway timely sought BSA’s approval to grandfather their development plans and allow construction to proceed on buildings that violated the new down-zoning. The four projects included a 20-unit, five-story structure at 62 1 0 24th Avenue, a 12-unit, five-story development on West 1 0th Street between Quentin Road and Avenue P, a six-story mixed-use project at 6422 Bay Parkway, and a 20-unit, seven-story structure at 103 Quentin Road.

Hearings on the four applications were held on September 20, 2005. The developers each submitted the original permit applications, photographs, cost estimates and, in some cases, contractors’ affidavits purporting to establish that the permits were granted and substantial progress was made on each development prior to the June 23rd enactment of the new zoning rules.

State Assemblyman William Colton, the representative for Bensonhurst, and Brooklyn Community Board 1 1 opposed all four applications since the projects would exceed the new zoning. BSA approved all four applications, finding that the permits were valid and over 60 percent or more of the foundations were complete in each case.

BSA: 1669/71 West 10th Street ( 166-05- BIT) (October 18, 2005); BSA: 103 Quentin Road ( l67-05-BZ¥) (October 18, 2005); BSA: 6422 Bay Parkway ( 1 68-05- BZY) (October 18, 2005); BSA: 6210-6218 24th Avenue (169-05-BZ¥) (October 1 8, 2005) . CITYADMIN