2016-4256-A APPLICANT – Rothkrug Rothkrug & Spector LLP, for Stecher Street LLC, owner. SUBJECT – Application September 20, 2016 – Proposed construction of a one family, two-story dwelling not fronting on a legally mapped street, pursuant to Article 3 Section 36 of the General City Law. R1-2 (SRD) zoning district. PREMISES AFFECTED – 147 Stecher Street, Block 6565, Lot 11, Borough of Staten Island. COMMUNITY BOARD #3SI Application granted on ACTION OF THE BOARD – condition. THE VOTE TO GRANT – Affirmative: Chair Perlmutter, Vice-Chair Chanda and Commissioner Ottley-Brown.........................................3 Negative: ......................................................................0 THE RESOLUTION – WHEREAS, the decision of the Department of Buildings (“DOB”), dated August 3, 2016, acting on New Building Application No. 520296171, reads in pertinent part: “The street giving access to proposed building is not duly placed on the official map of the City of New York therefore: A) No Certificate of Occupancy can be issued pursuant to Article 3, Section 36 of General City Law. B) Proposed construction does not have at least 8% of the total perimeter of building(s) fronting directly upon a legally mapped street or frontage space contrary to section 502.1 of the 2014 NYC Building Code”; and WHEREAS, this is an appeal to permit, in an R1-2 zoning district in the Special South Richmond Development District and a Lower Density Growth Management Area, the development of a two-story residence that does not front on a mapped street, contrary to General City Law (“GCL”) § 36; and WHEREAS, a public hearing was held on this appeal on February 28, 2017, after due notice by publication in The City Record, with continued hearings on April 4, 2017, June 27, 2017, and September 12, 2017, and then to decision on September 26, 2017; and WHEREAS, Commissioner Ottley-Brown and former Commissioner Montanez performed inspections of the site and surrounding neighborhood; and WHEREAS, Community Board 3, Staten Island, recommends approval of this appeal; and WHEREAS, Staten Island Borough President James S. Oddo submitted testimony regarding the ownership of Stecher Street, paving, street maintenance and infrastructure repairs, storm drainage and Fire Code compliance; and WHEREAS, the subject site is located on the east side of Stecher Street, between Deisius Street and Eylandt Street, in an R1-2 zoning district in the Special South Richmond Development District and a Lower Density Growth Management Area, on Staten Island; 2016-4256-A states that it has certified the site connection proposed in conjunction with this appeal; and WHEREAS, by letter dated February 6, 2017, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation states that no freshwater wetlands, tidal wetlands or coastal erosion hazard areas permit is required for development on the subject site; and WHEREAS, by letter dated February 6, 2017, the Fire Department states that, because the proposed development is located on a dead-end street further than 150 feet from the curb line of the nearest street which is not dead-end, the building must be fully sprinklered; and WHEREAS, in response, the applicant amended the drawings to reflect that the proposed building will be fully sprinklered in conformity with the New York City Fire Code and represents that a fire hydrant will be located within 250 feet of the proposed building’s entrance; and WHEREAS, accordingly, the Board finds that the applicant has submitted adequate evidence to warrant this approval under certain conditions. Therefore it is Resolved, that the decision of the Department of Buildings, dated August 3, 2016, acting on New Building Application No. 520296171, be and it hereby is modified under the powers vested in the Board of Standards and Appeals by General City Law § 36, and that this appeal be and it hereby is granted, limited to the objection noted, on condition that all construction shall substantially conform t

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