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What is NYC ZR § 93-14?

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This section outlines the retail continuity and transparency requirements applicable to the Special Hudson Yards District, with specific exclusions and modifications for certain areas. It specifies conditions for ground floor level street frontages and lobby limitations in designated subareas. Applies to property owners within the Special Hudson Yards District.

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§ 93-14 Ground Floor Level Requirements

ZR § 93-14

The following provisions relating to retail continuity and transparency requirements shall apply to all subdistricts in the Special Hudson Yards District, except that the provisions of this Section shall not apply in Subdistrict G and along the northern street frontage of West 35th through West 39th Streets within 100 feet of Eleventh Avenue, as shown on Map 2 (Mandatory Ground Floor Retail) in Appendix A of this Chapter. However, any zoning lot fronting on such streets and partially within 100 feet of Eleventh Avenue may, as an alternative, apply the provisions of this Section to the entire West 35th, West 36th, West 37th, West 38th or West 39th Street frontage of the zoning lot.

The underlying ground floor level streetscape provisions set forth in Section 32-30 (STREETSCAPE REGULATIONS), inclusive, shall apply, except that ground floor level street frontages along streets, or portions thereof, designated on Map 2 (Mandatory Ground Floor Retail) in Appendix A of this Chapter, shall be considered Tier C street frontages.

However, the lobby limitations for Tier C street frontages shall be modified as follows: within the Four Corners Subarea A2 of the Large-Scale Plan Subdistrict A, for a development occupying a full block with frontage on Hudson Boulevard East and Tenth Avenue and having two million or more square feet of floor area, the width of lobbies located on the Hudson Boulevard East street frontage or the Tenth Avenue street frontage may occupy up to 70 feet of the building wall width of the building located on each such frontage.

In addition, for the purposes of applying such provisions to Sites 1, 2 and 6 in the Western Rail Yard Subdistrict F, West 31st and West 32nd Street Extension, as shown on Map 3 (Subdistrict F: Public Access Area Plan) in Appendix B of this Chapter, shall be considered streets.

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