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NY Appellate Courts Defer to Board of Standards In Zoning Cases
In a dispute over West Side development, the First Department handed a victory to developers seeking to build a 39-story building on the block between West 65th and West 66th Street, and Columbus Avenue and Central Park West. (City Club of New York v. New York City Board of Standards and Appeals, 202 WL 3083700). Together with the First Department's previous decision in favor of the developer in the 200 Amsterdam Avenue case (see, Paul D. Selver and James P. Power, "Appellate Division Overturns Supreme Court Order to Partially Demolish 55-Story Building" in this newsletter's LJN sibling New York Real Estate Law Reporter, May 2021), the City Club case highlights the extreme deference appellate courts accord Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA) determinations interpreting New York City's extraordinarily complex zoning scheme.
The proposed project includes a synagogue on the lower floors and 130 condominiums on the upper floors. Part of the project site lies in a C4-7 district while the remainder lies in an R8 district. Although the two districts have different density limits, the total permitted floor area for the project is 548,543 square feet, a number not in dispute in the case. The dispute centered on two other features of the project: first,, the distribution of square footage between the building's tower and the building's base, and second, the inclusion of four floors for mechanical equipment with a combined height of 198 feet. The developer located much of the project's square footage to a narrow tower above the building's base. The result is a 775-foot high building that provoked opposition by many in the neighborhood.
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