Note. —This resolution in the Bulletin. Please notify formal errors so that corrections BOARD MEETING OF: CALENDAR NO.: PREMISES: ACTION OF BOARD THE VOTE — Affirmative: Chair Commissioner Commissioner Negative: THE RESOLUTION — The decision of October 25, 2023, acting I1, reads, in pertinent in that proposed Front permitted 10 feet and This is an application permit the construction detached residence, front yards (Z.R. § 23-321).1 A public hearing after due notice by hearings on November 2024, and then to decision Commissioner Ottley-Brown, inspections of the site 1 On June 6, 2024, the for Economic Opportunity Resolution, City Planning Under the text amendment, in the subject R3-2 district The Premises intersection of East 56th district, in Brooklyn. East 56th Street, 30 feet feet of lot area, the Premises The applicant proposes cellar, two-family, detached area (0.6 floor area ratio 1,753.05 square feet 2-foot-deep southern a 9'-1 1/4''-wide northern and building height of yard. In the subject R3-2 lots to have two front another with a minimum seeks the relief requested The Zoning Resolution “vary or modify [its] observed, public safety Z.R. § 72-21. First, the applicant conditions inherent in shape and underdevelopment—that unnecessary hardship regulations that are neighborhood or district. Neighborhood Character lots and vacant lots within The Study demonstrates the Study Area, there site), and of these 12 the remaining lots are that the Study Area contains which 6 (85.7%) are parking space for an adjacent residence. The applicant clearance for curb cuts fire hydrant and utility the development of an support of this statement, street-view images showing To further illustrate conditions, the applicant plus cellar, single-family and an exterior wall-to-wall applicant asserts that practical residential area of the design would minimum of 1,225 square The applicant contends to both single- and two-family Accordingly, the conditions create practical complying strictly with created by general circumstances Next, the applicant the applicant proposes need be made with respect The applicant further would not alter the essential appropriate use or detrimental to the public applicant submitted the front yard depths radius of the Premises approximately 400-foot-by-800-foot-area 57th Street) around the that, of a total of approximately 400-foot radius, 0 (0%) 145 developed lots within (69%) have at least one that have a front yard have a front yard with Accordingly, the alter the essential character the Premises are located; use or development of to the public welfare. The applicant represents unnecessary hardship predecessor in title. In Study consisting of a deeds to the Premises subject Premises was December 15, 1961, or the Study notes that, was owned in common that merging and developing hardship. The applicant and Lot 57 together officially merge the two located on Lot 57; and with the front yard depth with a minimum 10-foot minimum 15-foot depth. like the subject as-of-right residence with impractical that the above practical been created by the applicant The applicant notes necessary to construct Specifically, the applicant with all applicable yards (Z.R. § 23-321). that both single-family impracticable at the conditions of narrowness Board finds that the afford relief within the Over the course imprecise and missing applicant’s initial proposal 10'' (see Z.R. § 23-331), a garage in the northern be a permitted obstruction removed the garage from compliant width of 8 plans of attic floor area, widths; and attached Agency Flood Rate located outside of any Based on the foregoing, record supports the and that the applicant discretion. Therefore, it is Resolved, does hereby make each Z.R. § 72-21 to permit cellar, two-family, detached requirements for front and site conditions application marked “Approved on November 1, 2024; the bulk parameters THAT southern front yard front yard with a minimum approved plans; the above THAT occup

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