2018-7-BZ CEQR #18-BSA-086K APPLICANT – Law Office of Lyra J. Halabi, owner. SUBJECT – Application January 18, Permit (§73-622) for the enlargement single-family home contrary ZR §23-142 open space and lot coverage); ZR §23-461 and ZR §23-47 (rear yard). R4 zoning PREMISES AFFECTED – 291 Avenue 7151, Lot 30, Borough of Brooklyn. COMMUNITY BOARD #15BK Application ACTION OF THE BOARD – condition. THE VOTE TO GRANT – Affirmative: Chair Perlmutter, Vice-Chair Commissioner Sheta and Commissioner Negative: ………………………………………………0 Absent: Commissioner Ottley-Brown……………...…1 THE RESOLUTION – WHEREAS, the decision of the Brooklyn Commissioner, dated December 19, 2017, Department of Buildings (“DOB”) Application 321464633, reads in pertinent part: The proposed enlargement of the existing family residence in an R4 zoning district: 1. creates non-compliance with floor area by exceeding the allowable area ratio and is contrary to Section of the Zoning Resolution; 2. creates non-compliance with the lot coverage and is contrary 23-142 of the Zoning Resolution; 3. creates non-compliance with the open space and is contrary 23-142 of the Zoning Resolution; 4. creates non-compliance with the rear yard and is contrary to 47 of the Zoning Resolution; 5. creates non-compliance with the side yards and is contrary to 461 of the Zoning Resolution; and WHEREAS, this is an application 622 to permit, in an R4 zoning district and Ocean Parkway District, the enlargement single-family dwelling that does not comply zoning requirements for floor area ratio coverage, open space, rear yards and side to ZR §§ 23-142, 23-47 and 23-461; and WHEREAS, a public hearing was application on August 14, 2018, after publication in The City Record, with continued on November 8, 2018, and January 15, 2019, decision on same date; and WHEREAS, Commissioner Ottley-Brown Commissioner Scibetta performed inspections and surrounding neighborhood; and WHEREAS, Community Board 2018-7-BZ CEQR #18-BSA-086K of any existing non-compliance, applicable bulk regulations for lot open space, floor area, side yard, or perimeter wall height regulations, provided that: (1) any enlargement within a side be limited to an enlargement existing non-complying side such enlargement shall not decrease in the existing minimum of open area between the building being enlarged and the side (2) any enlargement that is located yard is not located within 20 rear lot line; and (3) any enlargement resulting complying perimeter wall height only be permitted in R2X, R3, and R4-1 Districts, and only enlarged building is adjacent or two-family detached or semi-detached residence with an existing complying perimeter wall street. The increased height perimeter wall of the enlarged shall be equal to or less than of the adjacent building’s complying perimeter wall street, measured at the lowest before a setback or pitched roof Above such height, the regulations of Section 23-631, (b), shall continue to apply. The Board shall find that the building will not alter the essential of the neighborhood or district in building is located, nor impair the or development of the surrounding Board may prescribe appropriate and safeguards to minimize adverse on the character of the surrounding WHEREAS, the Board notes that the foregoing, its determination herein is and guided by, inter alia, ZR §§ 73-01 and WHEREAS, as a threshold matter, that this application located within an area special permit is available; and WHEREAS, the Board notes further subject application seeks to enlarge a family residence, as contemplated by ZR WHEREAS, the applicant proposes building by vertically enlarging the dwelling yard, vertically and horizontally extending the rear, and constructing a detached shed yard, resulting in a two- (2) story plus 2018-7-BZ CEQR #18-BSA-086K rear yard conditions on the subject block, that, of the 27 other single- or two- (2) family for which dimensions were provided, 13 have rear yards with a depth of less than 30 yards rang

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