Note.—This resolution is publication in the Bulletin. typographical or other formal before the Bulletin is published. BOARD OF August MEETING OF: 2019-9-BZ CALENDAR NO.: 468 PREMISES: Block Application ACTION OF BOARD — THE VOTE — Affirmative: Chair Perlmutter, Commissioner Ottley-Brown, Commissioner Scibetta Negative: THE RESOLUTION — The decision of the 29, 2020, acting on New pertinent part: “1. ZR 23-45: Proposed 23-45; therefore, approval. 2. ZR 23-461(c): not in compliance standards and appeals This is an application allow, within an R3A zoning single-family detached residence requirements for side yards, Z.R. §§ 23-461(c) and ZR A public hearing was after due notice by publication hearings on February 25, then to decision on Commissioner Ottley-Brown, inspections of the site Board 1, Staten Island, concerns that the proposed of the neighborhood and use or development of Community Board stated impact an as-of-right development reduction in the front yard impact future street line Street would create a proposed two-car garage The Premises are between Metcalfe Street district, on Staten Island. Targee Street, 42 feet of Premises are currently vacant. The applicant states residence from at least submits a Sanborn Map, Finance Tax Photos from The applicant proposes detached residence which open area distance between front yard depth. The proposed building (0.60 FAR), no side yards no open area along the southern depth of 4 feet. (The Board bonus underneath the structural the proposed building when and the floor space is located Zoning Resolution requires feet, see Z.R. § 23-461(a), containing residences, distance between buildings and a required front yard the applicant seeks the relief The Zoning Resolution “vary or modify [its] provision[s] observed, public safety § 72-21. First, the applicant conditions inherent in the the only triangular, shallow, create practical difficulties strictly with applicable general circumstances in describes the Premises as front lot line but no rear lot’s status as interior lot has frontage on one street; intersect two or more conditions inherent in the The applicant submitted demonstrates that, within site, there are 18 other the area. Of those 18 lots, of right due to narrowness lots (16 percent) are owned used as a side yard or parking those lots are owned with that site for a buildable The applicant also submitted that strict conformance a residence that is oddly bedroom. The applicant zoning regulations would Premises unless a variance Accordingly, the Board conditions create practical complying strictly with created by general circumstances Second, the applicant because this application need be made with respect Third, the applicant not alter the essential appropriate use or development detrimental to the public that, because the proposed detached residence, it surrounding area, which family detached, semi-detached the applicant states because open area regulations, and bulk requirements of the not deviate from alter the applicant represents that a permitted use under the states that the proposed helps to align the proposed support of these contentions, images of the residences well as renderings comparing proposed project. The proposed which is comparable to approximately 31'-1" in height. Over the course of hearings, the nature of the proposed windows on the lot line façade; residence. In response, the that the entire site, but walkway, would be landscaped. the height of the residence the lot line façade walls character. Accordingly, the Board alter the essential character the Premises are located; use or development of adjacent to the public welfare. Fourth, the applicant common ownership with until 1993, when the subject the City of New York subdivided into lots 70 and the subject lot was again tax lien foreclosure and this contention, the applicant applicant represents that a result of the tax lien hardship by the current Accordingly, the Board or unnecessary hardship a predecessor

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