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    Digital Zoning Resolution Updated to Include Full Legislative History

    Interactive Tools  •  Citywide

    An example of a pop-up window detailing the legislative history of a section of the Zoning Resolution. Image Credit: NYC DCP

    The update includes legislative history dating from 1961. On June 19, 2019, the Department of City Planning announced an update to the online Zoning Resolution that provides the code’s legislative history. Earlier this year, DCP launched the digital Zoning Resolution online platform, which replaced the paper edition. The digital version provides users with the ability to use keyword searches, one-click sharing, navigation, and the option to subscribe for updates. This legislative history update provides information on all substantive changes from when DCP adopted the Zoning Resolution in 1961 to the present day. (read more…)

    Tags : Department of City Planning, Interactive Tools, NYC Zoning Resolution, online tools
    Date:06/24/2019
    Category : Department Of City Planning
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    Residents Prevent Development in Fight Over Open Space

    Open Space  •  Upper West Side, Manhattan

    Park West Village superblock on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. (808 Columbus Ave, center). Image Credit: Google Maps.

    Appellate Division finds that Buildings improperly issued construction permit for nursing home after misinterpreting the zoning resolution. Park West Village is a complex located on a superblock bounded by West 100th Street to the north, West 97th Street to the south, Columbus Avenue to the east, and Amsterdam Avenue to the west on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The complex was built in the 1950s and 1960s as part of a federally subsidized middle-income urban renewal project, and includes residential buildings, a parking lot, a school, a church, a public library, a health center, and commercial buildings. Three original 16-story residential buildings remain on the eastern portion of the superblock at 784, 788, and 792 Columbus Avenue. The Park West Village buildings all exist on the same zoning lot. (read more…)

    Tags : Court Decisions, NYC Zoning Resolution, open space ratio (OSR), open space requirements, Park West Village, residential zoning
    Date:02/06/2019
    Category : Court Decisions
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    Think Twice Before Renting Your Home This Summer

    Short-Term and Long-Term Rentals  •  Citywide

    Apartments in New York City. Image credit: Esteban Chiner.

    Can New Yorkers rent their homes during the summer while they are away? Homeowners and tenants rent their homes while they are away this summer, but the question is: Is this Legal?

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    Tags : Airbnb, department of buildings, Dwelling, Housing Maintenance Code, Multiple Dwelling Law, NYC Zoning Resolution, Rentals, Sublease, summer
    Date:06/11/2018
    Category : Department Of Buildings
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    False Filings Result in Permanent Ban

    Filing Privileges  •  New York City

    Department of Buildings Commissioner Chandler. Image credit: NYCC/William Alatriste

    Licensed PE made multiple false and negligent filings with Buildings. The Department of Building brought an administrative proceeding against Scott Schnall, a licensed professional engineer, alleging that he knowingly or negligently made false statements in eleven alteration applications filed with Buildings between 2010 and 2014. Six of applications were in violation of the Zoning Resolution, the Multiple Dwelling Law, or the Administrative Code. The alteration applications filed related to six properties in Brooklyn. (read more…)

    Tags : Administrative Code, department of buildings, Multiple Dwelling Law, NYC Zoning Resolution, Rick Chandler
    Date:05/30/2017
    Category : Court Decisions
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    On Occasion of Zoning Code’s Centennial, Exhibit Seeks to Illuminate how Zoning Shapes the City & Our Experience of It

    NYC Zoning Code Exhibit  •  Citywide
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    Portion of exhibit. Image Credit: CityLand.

    Exhibit traces the conditions that lead to the creation of the 1960 zoning resolution, the forms that were created in its wake, the innovation of the 1961 zoning resolution, and the arguments surrounding zoning today. On November 10, 2016, the Museum of the City of New York opened its exhibition, “Mastering the Metropolis: New York and Zoning 1916-2016.” The exhibit uses 150 objects, artifacts and photos to demonstrate how 100 years of zoning has guided the City’s growth, and its urban experience. (read more…)

    Tags : 1961 Zoning Resolution amendments, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Museum of the City of New York, NYC Zoning Resolution
    Date:11/28/2016
    Category : Museum of the City of New York
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    Symposium Announced Recognizing 100th Anniversary of City’s Zoning Resolution

    Continuing Legal Education  •  New York City Bar Association
    Image credit: New York City Bar Association

    Image credit: New York City Bar Association

    A centennial symposium will celebrate the Nation’s first comprehensive zoning resolution: Leaders will look to past and future impact of zoning on the shaping of better cities. The Department of City Planning, in partnership with the New York City Bar Association, announced an all-day symposium titled Zoning at 100: A Symposium for the Future to take place on September 15, 2016. The symposium marks the 100th anniversary of the City’s Zoning Resolution which, when established in 1916, was the Nation’s first comprehensive regulation controlling land use and development.

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    Tags : Carl Weisbrod, City Planning Commission, City’s Zoning Resolution, David Karnovsky, Gifford Miller, Jerold Kayden, Maurice Cox, New York City Bar Association, NYC Zoning Resolution, zoning resolution
    Date:09/01/2016
    Category : Department Of City Planning
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