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    Enforcement of sex shop rules halted

    Zoning  •  Citywide

    Adult entertainment businesses continue their decades-long fight against zoning rules that restrict business locations. In the latest installment in the City’s efforts to restrict adult entertainment establishments, a federal court enjoined enforcement of the City’s zoning resolution. This is the latest court action in a series of actions that began in 1994. (read more…)

    Tags : adult entertainment shops, CityLaw, zoning
    Date:01/07/2021
    Category : CityLaw
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    City Planning Creates Online Platform for Zoning Resolution

    Zoning Resolution  •  Citywide

    NYC Department of City Planning

    The City’s zoning laws are now instantly accessible to New Yorkers. On February 6, 2019, Department of City Planning Director Marisa Lago announced the release of the City’s digital Zoning Resolution online platform. The online platform will serve as a green replacement for the 1,570-page physical copy of the Resolution, which will no longer be printed to save money, increase government transparency, and fight climate change. It will also be a more interactive replacement for the static PDFs currently on the City Planning website. The platform will make the City’s Zoning Resolution more accessible for New Yorkers.

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    Tags : City Planning Commission, Council Member Ben Kallos, Francisco Moya, Land Use, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Maria Torres-Springer, Rafael Salamanca, zoning
    Date:02/14/2019
    Category : City Planning Commission
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    Community Board Recommends Zoning Protections For 14th Street Tech Hub Plan

    ULURP  •  Manhattan

    P.C. Richard & Son Building. Image credit: DCP.

    Proposed zoning protections expect to preserve the residential area between Union Square and Astor Place from rapid developments. On February 28, 2018, Manhattan Community Board 3 unanimously voted to include proposed zoning protections for the 3rd/4th Avenue corridors between East 8th and 14th Streets in Manhattan. The corridors are one of the areas between Union Square and Astor Place that will be impacted by Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Tech Hub Plan. The protections are one of the conditions for approval of the 14th Street Tech Hub. The plan calls for the development of a 21-story tech hub at 124 East 14th Street, currently the P.C. Richard & Son building. (read more…)

    Tags : 14th Street, Carlina Rivera, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, mayor, P.C. Richards & Son, Rezoning, Tech Hub, ULURP, zoning
    Date:03/13/2018
    Category : Community Boards
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    Garages – A Hidden Housing Asset

    Alexander Garvin
    Example of Garage Housing. Image Credit: Alexander Garvin.

    Example of Garage Housing. Image Credit: Alexander Garvin.

    Thousands of new affordable apartments can be created in a few months – maybe not 200,000, but more affordable apartments can be put on the market within one year than we have built in many years.

    Indeed, thousands of new affordable apartments can be created in a few months – and without federal subsidies or public incentives of any kind!! (read more…)

    Tags : Affor, City Planning Commission, Home Conversion, zoning
    Date:06/02/2014
    Category : Commentary
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    Variance approved for six-story Tribeca building

    Variance  •  Tribeca, Manhattan

    Owner claimed that lot, which is occupied by a one-story building that could not be safely enlarged, was underutilized. 71 Laight Street LLC applied to BSA for a variance to build a six-story, eighteen-unit residential building with twelve accessory parking spaces at 412 Greenwich Street in Manhattan’s Tribeca North Historic District. The site is occupied by a one-story freight-loading structure built in 1956 and currently used for parking, which the owner would demolish in order to construct the new building.

    The owner initially proposed a 55,055 sq.ft., six-story building with a penthouse and unrestricted ground-floor retail uses. The proposed building would replicate the massing and design of an adjacent warehouse building at 401 Washington Street that was built in 1906. The proposal included a cast aluminum facade etched with a brick pattern mimicking the warehouse’s red-brick facade. The owner received approval from the Landmarks Preservation Commission for the Morris Adjmi-designed project in September 2008. 5 CityLand 140 (Oct. 15, 2008). (read more…)

    Tags : 412 Greenwich Street, 71 Laight Street LLC, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Morris Adjmi Architects, Tribeca North Historic District, zoning
    Date:03/15/2010
    Category : Board of Standards & Appeals
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    Rooftop addition on brownstone approved

    Special Permit  •  Upper West Side,Manhattan

    Applicant required special permit because proposed addition would violate sliver law’s height limit. On January 6, 2010, the City Planning Commission approved a proposal by 161 West 78th Street LLC to build a one-story addition atop an existing five-story brownstone at 161 West 78th Street in the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District of Manhattan. The twelve-foot addition would not be visible from the street and would increase the building’s height to 70 feet. While the underlying R8B zoning permits a maximum building height of 75 feet, the owner required a special permit because the addition would violate the sliver’s law additional height regulation.

    The sliver law applies to certain zoning districts and limits buildings with a width of 45 feet or less to the height equivalent of either the width of the street it fronts or to the height of an abutting structure if it is taller than the street’s width. Because the brownstone is only nineteen feet wide and West 78th Street is 60 feet wide, the owner was limited to enlarging the building to a maximum height of 60 feet. (read more…)

    Tags : 161 West 78th Street, 161 West 78th Street LLC, Board of Standards & Appeals, brownstone, City Planning Commission, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Larry Hirschfield, maximum building height, Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District, zoning
    Date:02/15/2010
    Category : City Planning Commission
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