Note. —This resolution in the Bulletin. Please formal errors so that BOARD MEETING OF: CALENDAR NO.: PREMISES: ACTION OF BOARD THE VOTE — Affirmative: Chair Commissioner Commissioner Negative: THE RESOLUTION The decision September 5, 2017, 520281935, reads, 1. …ZR 22-00[:] legalization Service Establishment zoning district the New Board of This is an application permit, on a site Density Growth Management enlargement of a building, contrary A public hearing 2022, after due 1 On June 6, 2024, for Economic Opportunity Resolution, City Planning Under the text amendment, and service facility 16 to UG VI. continued hearings 2023, January 9, 2024, 21, 2024, and then Scibetta and Commissioner surrounding area. Community Board application. The Board two letters of objection, adherence to the neighborhood The Premises the north, Sheridan within an R3-2 zoning approximately 99 frontage along Sheridan Street, and 27,423 foot widening area)2, story, 12,513.40-square-foot, accessory parking 5,525-square-foot, 6,988.40-square-foot 824.27-square-foot floor area (0.49 floor On February A, the Board granted Occupancy No. 40725, continuous period repair and accessory permitted and discontinuance, contrary Cal. Nos. 625-72-BZ for a variance to subsequently appealed annulled the Board’s Division, Second annulment of the Standards and Appeals, DOB approved certificate of occupancy the Premises. 2 The Board notes that 27,423 square feet of along Crist Street. The applicant area of the legally beyond its existing feet, resulting in building. The applicant obsolete and could operations, so it enlarged automotive repair 824.27-square-foot area of 13,337.67 height and front 12.95 feet; one side Initially, the legalization of the 5,525-square-foot, and (ii) construction However, in response scope and potential applicant retracted Premises and now enlargement. In the subject prohibits UG VI applicant seeks the The Zoning Resolution “vary or modify [its] observed, public § 72-21. First, the applicant conditions inherent railroad adjacency, obsolescence—that hardship in complying are not created district. First, the polygonal shape and Railway (“SIR” or hardship in developing the Premises’ location the associated train its residents, but also the tracks prevents effects. Specifically, southern lot line, tracks due to the site’s develop a residential lot line and parallel subject lot was parallel rectangular yard and the tracks with equal The applicant unique in the vicinity north and Marie frontages that are or perpendicular), and yards. In support photographs and a southern frontages Street (Block 3202) while both the subject to the north (Block Street, are developed notes that, due to Railway, new development Authority (“MTA”) timeline and increase the Premises as Oriented Development The applicant would be infeasible automotive repair and obsolescence. of non-residential a residential building, evolved into automobile accreditation documents, and Sanborn tax Premises since conforming building originally constructed prior coal storage building in the 1970s automotive repair, uses. In part, the portion (fronting on on Crist Street) constructed to provide car-length deep. The building’s unusual cannot accommodate instead is better suited in the enlargement. In support Uniqueness Study facilities in northern buildings surveyed 234 Grandview • foot building; 79 Industrial • building; 600 Gulf Avenue • building; and 66 Broadway • The applicant the legally non-conforming building’s single-story are not amenable Moreover, the applicant would not be viable submitted as-of-right residential building rectangular portion area (0.59 FAR); 7,150 of 28'-0 1/2"; a perimeter on-site parking spaces The applicant states residential development conforming buildings SIR (see Part B. below). Despite the as-of-right regulations, the applicant would conflict with map demonstrating of the Premises, there Lot 11), while there (including Lots 2, 2921, and Lot 1 on 3 The applicant

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