Note. —This resolution is final Bulletin. Please notify the General so that corrections may be made CORRECTION: This under Calendar No. follows: BOARD MEETING OF: CALENDAR NO.: PREMISES: ACTION OF BOARD THE VOTE — Affirmative: Chair Commissioner Commissioner Negative: THE RESOLUTION — The decision of September 6, 2023, 421786650, reads in pertinent [Alt]-1 no work filed and cellar building obtain a new certificate Objection: Proposed 12. Comply with This is an application permit, within an R4-1 occupancy (“SRO”) building underlying use regulations A public hearing after due notice by hearings on April 8, September 8. Vice-Chair performed inspections Community Board application. The Board concerns about strain existing shortage of parking. The Premises are intersection of 87th district, in Queens. With south side of 87th Road, Street, a depth of 100 area, the Premises are residential building. Originally, the applicant to a five-family residential gross square feet for measuring 1,154.39 square center staircase, and bedroom apartment; (1,151.34 square feet) bedroom and a two-bedroom In response to proposal and plans to dwelling units, thereby, four-family, residential building as such: • the cellar would remain for storage • the first floor the entrance unit with three-bedrooms • the second floor area and would square-foot studio bedroom apartment; • the third floor include a 938.23 Here, the applicant maintains subject lot or floor area alteration of the interior the proposed development requirements. In the subject R4-1 residential uses to “single- detached buildings and Accordingly, the applicant The Zoning Resolution “vary or modify [its] observed, public safety § 72-21. First, the applicant conditions inherent in longstanding use of the practical difficulties with applicable zoning circumstances in the contends that the existing in conjunction with the property owner from applicant argues that constructed in 1911, community have changed characterized by a mix dwellings located north, commercial and mixed-use Hillside Avenue. Moreover, buildings in the area, the area. Next, the applicant lot in conjunction with permitted floor plates to demolition and new a conforming development arguing that submitted is the only parcel configuration. Additionally, demonstrating that yield two, two-family, necessitate pinched angles plans show one building 2,659.4 square feet of of the building (fronting resulting in space that building on the southern feet of zoning floor area (fronting 87th Road) bedroom that requires the building or unusual submitted alternate, developing the site with the building sizes to respectively, and result necessarily being small, applicant concludes that develop, more difficult impractical to market. Additionally, the the subject building and nature. In support, renovation of the existing dwelling units that approximately 1,150 respectively, whereas vicinity average approximately applicant concludes that of the existing building comparable apartments market and impractical the above unique physical unnecessary hardship regulations that are neighborhood or district. Next, the applicant variance requested in Premises to provide the applicant represents is limited, with vacancy percent and currently submits that of the existing a maximum of five to tenants due to the limited area. Furthermore, the does not provide for support, the applicant that for the as-of-right the value of the capitalized development cost ($1,238,000) is -$471,000. The economic value is directly related the existing building oversized units that would the larger four-bedroom return than the market excessive size, and any the size would be expected Next, for the as-of-right, analysis finds that the net operating income for the as of right existing surmises that this greater construction costs associated of the buildings that would exist due to building layout that results in In contrast, the value of the capitalized development cost ($1,310,0

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