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THE NYC BOARD OF STANDARDS AND APPEALS (BSA) PROPERLY APPROVED THE CONSTRUCTION OF A BUILDING IN THE SPECIAL LINCOLN SQUARE DISTRICT ON A SPLIT-LOT, I.E., A LOT THAT STRADDLES TWO ZONING DISTRICTS, EACH WITH ITS OWN LIMITATIONS ON USE (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department, in a full-fledged opinion by Justice Oing, reversing Supreme Count, determined the NYC Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA) properly approved the construction of a building in the Special Lincoln Square District. The project is on a zoning lot that straddles to zoning districts, each with its own limitations on uses, a so-called split-lot:

This Court has held that a split lot is treated as a single lot when assessing compliance with a zoning requirement that applies equally to both zoning districts of the split lot and that the split-lot provision is applied on a “regulation-by-regulation basis” … . ZR § 82-34, the relevant bulk distribution regulation, provides that “[w]ithin the Special District, at least 60 percent of the total floor area permitted on a zoning lot” must be below a height of 150 feet from curb level. There is no dispute that the project complied with ZR § 82-34. Practically speaking, this provision directly regulates the distribution of a building’s floor area and indirectly regulates height by restricting much of a zoning lot’s floor area to the part of a building below a cutoff. Every square foot that needs to be below the 150-foot ceiling to comply with ZR § 82-34 reduces the number of square feet that could be above it. ,,, As noted by BSA, “the Special District’s bulk-distribution regulations do operate to reduce the height of buildings in the Special District — only not to the extent [petitioner] wish[es]” … . … BSA held that this regulation applies to both … zoning districts because it is located in a “Special District.” … ZR § 82-34’s imposition of the bulk distribution regulation within the Special Lincoln Square District creates … commonality … so as to override the split-lot provision’s prohibition against transfer of floor area between the two zoning districts, and permits the two zoning districts to be treated as one. Under these circumstances, we find that BSA’s determination to apply ZR § 82-34 to the project’s zoning lot was rational. City Club of N.Y. v New York City Bd. of Stds. & Appeals, 2021 NY Slip Op 04533, First Dept 7-22-21

 

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