2017-68-A thru 2017-96-A APPLICANT – Rothkrug Rothkrug & Spector Joline Estates, LLC, owner. SUBJECT – Applications March 27, 2017 construction of twenty-nine (29) two-family not fronting on a legally mapped street, General City Law 36. R3-X (SRD) zoning PREMISES AFFECTED – 7 to 49 Torrice Loop to 16 Frosinone Lane, Block 7577, Various Borough of Staten Island. COMMUNITY BOARD #3SI Applications ACTION OF THE BOARD – on condition. THE VOTE TO GRANT – Affirmative: Vice-Chair Chanda, Commissioner Brown and Commissioner Sheta ………………...…..…3 Negative: Chair Perlmutter and Commissioner Scibetta………………………………………………....2 THE RESOLUTION – WHEREAS, the decisions of the Department Buildings (“DOB”), dated February 23, 2017, New Building Application Nos. 520290836, 520290845, 520290854, 520290872, 520290881, 520290890, 520290916, 520290925, 520290934, 520290952, 520290961, 520290970, 520290998, 520291005, 520291014, 520291041, 520291050, 520291069, 520291087, 520291096, 520291158, 520291167, in pertinent part: “The street giving access to proposed building is not duly placed on the map of the City of New York therefore No Certificate of Occupancy can be pursuant to Article 3, Section 36 of General City Law”; and WHEREAS, these are applications under City Law (“GCL”) § 36 to permit, in an R3X district and the Special South Richmond Development District, the development of 29 two-family that do not front on a street duly placed on map of the City of New York (the “City Map”); WHEREAS, a public hearing was held applications on April 10, 2018, after due publication in The City Record, with continued on June 19, 2018, August 7, 2018, August September 27, 2018, and October 23, 2018, decision on November 8, 2018; and WHEREAS, Commissioner Ottley-Brown Commissioner Scibetta performed inspections site and surrounding neighborhood; and WHEREAS, Community Board 3, Staten generally recommends approval of these applications; and WHEREAS, by letter dated April Community Board 3 clarifies that it does tandem off-street parking for two-family that no parking should be permitted on a 34-foot-wide road, that the street width should be modified standard width of 38 feet or each driveway width that will accommodate two vehicles 2017-68-A thru 2017-96-A WHEREAS, the Board notes that, GCL § 36, it may authorize the development buildings that do not front on a street duly placed City Map; and WHEREAS, the applicant states that interior roadway plan for Torrice Loop and Lane indicates that the interior roadway been designed to match Department of Transportation (“DOT”) standards for public streets that incorporated into a Builders Pavement Plan roadway will also include street lighting, street and crosswalks designed to meet DOT standards public streets; and WHEREAS, the applicant stats that review all plans for the proposed interior roadways compliance with applicable laws as part of construction application and approval process; WHEREAS, the applicant states submitted theoretical site plan demonstrates configuration and buildings that could be developed the subject site with all buildings fronting on street (Richmond Valley Road) and that the development would yield infeasible single-family residences with over 10,000 square feet of and lot depths of 167 to 207 feet, thereby unnecessary hardship in developing the conforming and complying buildings that mapped street; and WHEREAS, the applicant submits proposed homeowners’ association has been by the New York State Attorney General’s including disclosures and budgeting with respect private roads and drainage system associated future maintenance and repairs; and WHEREAS, by letter dated September the Department of City Planning (“DCP”) the following applications were approved in with a proposed development of 35 residences at the subject site: an application certification of future subdivision from one into 33 zoning lots, approved by the City Commission on August 20, 2014 (No. N 140224 an application for certific
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