241-02-BZ CEQR #03-BSA-032K APPLICANT - Sheldon Lobel, P.C., for HFK owner. SUBJECT - Application August 30, 2002 - under §72-21 to permit the proposed conversion to residential use, of two connected vacant manufacturing building, Use Group 2, located in an M2-1zoning district, will provide 48 residential loft type units, contrary to Z.R. §42-00. PREMISES AFFECTED - 130 Third Street, corner Bond and Third Streets, Block 466, Lot 1, Borough Brooklyn. COMMUNITY BOARD #6BK APPEARANCES - For Applicant: Janice Cahalane. THE ACTION OF BOARD - Application Denied. THE VOTE TO GRANT - Affirmative: ................................................................0 Negative: Vice-Chair Babbar, Commissioner Caliendo and Commissioner Miele.............................................3 Abstain: Chair Srinivasan............................................1 Absent: Commissioner Chin........................................1 THE RESOLUTION – WHEREAS, the decision of the Borough Commissioner, dated August 1, 2002, acting Department of Buildings Application No. 301377445, reads: “Proposed residential conversion of existing structures to residential uses within this M2-1 zoning district is contrary to ZR Section 42-00 and therefore must be referred to the Board Standards and Appeals.”; and WHEREAS, a public hearing was held application on April 15, 2003 after due notice publication in the City Record, with continued hearings on June 17, 2003, September 9, 2003 and November 18, 2003, and then to February 3, 2004 for decision; and WHEREAS, the premises and surrounding had a site and neighborhood examination committee of the Board consisting of Vice-Chair Babbar, Commissioner James Chin, Commissioner Peter Caliendo and Commissioner Joel Miele; WHEREAS, this is an application under Z.R. 21, to permit, in an M2-1 zoning district, the proposed conversion and combination of existing three-story, two-story and six-story manufacturing buildings residential use, with 48 residential units (UG 2), is contrary to Z.R. §42-00; and WHEREAS, the subject zoning lot is 24,304 ft., with frontage on the Gowanus Canal, as well North Third Street, which is a wide street; and WHEREAS, the zoning lot is currently occupied by three vacant manufacturing buildings, which proposed to be combined; and WHEREAS, the applicant alleges that following are unique physical conditions, which 241-02-BZ CEQR #03-BSA-032K set forth at Z.R. §72-21(a), the application also meet the finding set forth at Z.R. §72-21(b); and WHEREAS, the applicant represents that residential use is appropriate at the site because: is a residential zoning district diagonally northwest, a bike lane runs along Third Street of the site, and the site is adjacent to the Gowanus Canal, which the applicant alleges is predominantly used for recreation; and WHEREAS, the Board notes that the residential zoning district that applicant sites is diagonally large intersection and a wide street and, within radius of the site, consists primarily of vacant lots occupied by manufacturing uses; and WHEREAS, because of the separation between the subject site and the residential zoning district, well as the minimal amount of residential uses in radius of the site, the Board finds that there is relation in terms of neighborhood character between site and the residential zoning district; and WHEREAS, the Board observes that the is situated on a block occupied by only conforming uses; that the block to the north contains predominantly conforming uses, and that the blocks across Gowanus Canal from the site contain predominantly conforming uses; and WHEREAS, the Board notes that the proposed building would not actually face any residential and notes further that the east side of Bond Street, which a small portion of the proposed building front, is occupied predominantly by conforming manufacturing uses extending from the site due for several blocks; and WHEREAS, the Board finds, based on visit and evidence in the record, that the site

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