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§ 11-272 — Alteration applications filed prior to effective date of amendment C821182 ZMM, rezoning the area between Canal Street, Baxter Street, White Street and Broadway

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This section outlines the conditions under which residential use is permitted in a specific Manufacturing District. It allows for dwelling units with alteration applications filed before December 16, 1982, to be recognized as permitted uses if certain occupancy and application criteria are met. Applies to building owners in the specified area seeking to establish residential use.

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§ 11-272 Alteration applications filed prior to effective date of amendment C821182 ZMM, rezoning the area between Canal Street, Baxter Street, White Street and Broadway

ZR § 11-272

In the Manufacturing District located in the area between Canal Street, Baxter Street, Walker Street, Centre Street, White Street and Broadway, residential use shall not be permitted. However:

(a)all dwelling units for which an alteration application to permit such use was filed with the Department of Buildings prior to December 16, 1982, and a temporary or permanent certificate of occupancy is obtained not later than December 16, 1984, shall be a permitted use; and

(b)dwelling units which the Chairperson of the City Planning Commission determines were occupied on August 31, 1982, shall be a permitted use provided that a complete application to permit such use is filed by the owner of the building or the occupant of a dwelling unit in such building not later than August 31, 1983. For the purposes of Article 7C of the New York State Multiple Dwelling Law, such a determination of residential occupancy shall be deemed to permit residential use as-of-right for such dwelling unit.

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