Note.—This resolution in the Bulletin. Please formal errors so that CORRECTION: under Calendar BOARD MEETING OF: CALENDAR NO.: PREMISES: ACTION OF BOARD THE VOTE — Affirmative: Chair Commissioner Commissioner Negative: THE RESOLUTION The decision 16, 2021, acting on in pertinent part: 1. ZR 25-23: proposed minimum 2. ZR 23-662: the proposed permitted This is an application permit the development contrary to zoning (Z.R. § 25-23). A public hearing 2021, after due continued hearings 2023, and then to Brown and Commissioner and surrounding recommends denial Community developer instead of incomes government financing as HPD’s enable rents median income return to the project when finalized so levels have has been developer by the Department and to continue neighboring The Board received Additionally, the application, including Carmen De La Rosa, Borough President Jackson. The Board groups such as Moving Forward Owners’ Coalition, July 19, 2022 and and names of over is also aware of Community Board of its consideration proposed project building and adherence downzoning of the affordability of the parking spaces, and as required by Z.R. The Premises Street and Seaman partially within a Special Inwood District, frontage along Cumming Avenue, and 26,711 Premises is currently as the parish house while the northern Originally, the new, nine-story, approximately 140 spaces. The applicant would have 99,206.19 a maximum base 94'-6". As part of this 140 dwelling units be designated as Program and would equal to or less than In response to applicant amended new, eight-story, attended, accessory, bedrock elevation) curb cut on Seaman floor is 14'-3/4" so needed to fit the applicant describes square feet of residential of 69'-4"; and a maximum The applicant for the subject building and 77-24, based R7A and C2-4 (R7-2) height, setback, and applicable to development, permits a maximum community facility In the subject maximum base height feet. Furthermore, provide accessory total number of dwelling proposed 121 units) residents of the building, 41. Accordingly, the The Zoning Resolution “vary or modify [its] observed, public § 72-21. First, the applicant conditions inherent elevated bedrock, and retaining wall rises to a height of residential building of worship building or unnecessary hardship regulations that neighborhood or district. The applicant stating, first, on the is elevated above the is generally at an rock at elevations elevation of Premises surrounding sidewalk. 30-foot grade change the rock wall is located, wall and rock cut applicant claims that from the adjacent at 11 Seaman Avenue, elevated with the at an elevation of presence of the existing, zoning lot requires to occur on the portion rock condition and cantilever over the to alleviate some employed to preserve result of the unique concludes that significant accommodate required the elevated bedrock. In support Uniqueness Study, development sites identified by the New for the Special unimproved, vacant the neighborhood least 1935, the built applicant states that condition may have neighborhood, it has surge of residential the applicant contends comparison to the surrounding area present a suitable it is not likely that facilitate new development. presented five development comparison: Block 2200, • Avenue, 417 parking lot 0.7 miles from Block 2174, • improved approximately Block 2202, • Avenue, which building and 0.7 miles from Block 2200, • with a two-story, parking lot and Block 2175, • Street, which and a two-story approximately Additionally, also appropriate unimproved and within Block 2248, • is a cleared miles from Block 2240, • adjacent to separate ownership Premises. The Study posits aerial photographs, similar elevation to rock outcroppings improved with surface none are burdened as the Premises, such to the claimed hardship. only the Premises the presence of an zoning lot. The applicant the development lines, effectively shrinking Report concluded line along Seaman fr

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