Permitpedia

MANHATTAN CORE

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The MANHATTAN CORE is the area within Manhattan Community
Districts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.

PREDOMINANTLY BUILT-UP AREA

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A PREDOMINANTLY BUILT-UP AREA is a block entirely within R4 or R5 Districts including a Commercial District mapped within such Residential Districts having a maximum area of 4 acres which is developed with buildings on zoning lots comprising 50 percent or more of the area of the block. However, a predominantly built-up area shall not include a block which is located partly in a R4A, R4-1, R4B, R5B or R5D District.

ACCEPTANCE OR ACCEPTED

1999-12-30T13:00:00.000-05:00

In reference to CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS,the endorsement by the DEPARTMENT of construction documents with less than full examination by the department based on the professional certification of a registered design professional in accordance with a program established by the COMMISSIONER.

ACCESSIBLE

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A BUILDING or portion thereof and the accessory public areas thereof are accessible when they comply with subarticle two of article two of subchapter four of chapter one of title twenty seven of this code and can be approached, entered and used by people having physical disabilities.

ACCESSIBLE ROUTE

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A continuous unobstructed path connecting all ACCESSIBLE spaces and rooms in a BUILDING that can be negotiated by all categories of people having physical disabilities. Interior accessible routes may include CORRIDORS, doorways, floors, ramps elevators, lifts and clear floor space adjacent to fixtures. Exterior accessible routes may include parking accessaisles, curb ramps, walks, ramps and lifts.

ACCESSORY BUILDING

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A BUILDING, the use or occupancy of which is incidental to that of the main building.

ACCESSORY USE

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A use or occupancy incidental to the principal use or occupancy of a BUILDING. See also Zoning Resolution definition of ACCESSORY USE.

ACCESSORY USE, OR ACCESSORY

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An ACCESSORY USE:

(a) is a USE conducted on the same ZONING LOT as the principal USE to which it is related (whether located within the same or an ACCESSORY BUILDING OR OTHER STRUCTURE, or as an ACCESSORY USE of land), except that, where specifically provided in the applicable district regulations or elsewhere in this Resolution, ACCESSORY docks, off-street parking or off-street loading need not be located on the same ZONING LOT; and

(b) is a USE which is clearly incidental to, and customarily found in connection with, such principal USE; and

(c) is either in the same ownership as such principal USE, or is operated and maintained on the same ZONING LOT substantially for the benefit or convenience of the owners, occupants, employees, customers, or visitors of the principal USE.

When ACCESSORY is used in the text, it shall have the same meaning as ACCESSORY USE.

An ACCESSORY USE includes:

(1) Living or sleeping accommodations for servants in connection with a USE listed in Use Groups 1 and 2;

(2) Living or sleeping accommodations for caretakers in connection with any USE listed in Use Groups 3 through 18 inclusive, provided that:
(i) no BUILDING contains more than one living or sleeping accommodation for caretakers;
(ii) no such living or sleeping accommodation shall exceed
1,200 square feet of FLOOR AREA;
(iii) the owner shall sign a Restrictive Declaration that any such caretaker will provide maintenance and/or repair services, and containing a list of services to be performed by such caretaker. Such Restrictive Declaration shall be recorded in the Office of the City Register, or, where applicable, the County Clerk's Office, of the county where the BUILDING is located.
A copy of such declaration shall be provided to the Department of Buildings; and
(iv) in C6-2M, C6-4M, M1-5M, M1-6M, M1-5A, M1-5B Districts and the SPECIAL TRIBECA MIED USE DISTRICT, no living or sleeping accommodation for caretakers is permitted
in any BUILDING which contains a RESIDENTIAL USE or a JOINT LIVING-WORK QUARTERS FOR ARTISTS.

(3) Living or sleeping accommodations in connection with COMMERCIAL or MANUFACTURING USES, including living or sleeping accommodations in connection with a studio listed in Use Group 9, provided that:
(i) no BUILDING contains more than two kitchens; and
(ii) no such living or sleeping accommodations are located in a C7, C8 or MANUFACTURING DISTRICT.

(4) Keeping of domestic animals, but not for sale or hire. A commercial stable or kennel is not an ACCESSORY USE.

(5) Swimming pools not located within a BUILDING listed in Use Group 1 or 2, provided that:
(i) the USE of such pools shall be restricted to occupants of the principal USE and guests for whom no admission or membership fees are charged;
(ii) if ACCESSORY to a USE listed in Use Group 2, except if such USE is a SINGLE-FAMILY or TWO-FAMILY RESIDENCE, the edge of the pool shall be located not less than 100 feet from any LOT LINE;
(iii) if ACCESSORY to a USE listed in Use Group 1 or Use Group 2, which USE is a SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENCE or TWO-FAMILY RESIDENCE, the edge of the pool shall be located not less than 5 feet from any LOT LINE, except that such minimum distance between the edge of the pool and any SIDE LOT LINE may be not less than 3 feet in the case of lots less than 25 feet in width, providing that it is screened from adjoining lots by a 6 foot high continuous solid opaque fence along the SIDE LOT LINE adjacent to such pool. In the event that such pool is located between 50 and 5 feet from any REAR LOT LINE or SIDE LOT LINE, it shall be screened by a continuous fence supplemented with a strip of densely planted trees or shrubs at least four feet high at the time of planting along such REAR LOT LINE to such pool; and
(iv) illumination of such pools shall be limited to underwater lighting.

Swimming pool clubs are not ACCESSORY USES.

(6) Domestic or agricultural storage in a barn, shed, tool room, or similar BUILDING OR OTHER STRUCTURE

(7) HOME OCCUPATIONS.

(8) A newsstand primarily for the convenience of the occupants of a BUILDING, which is located wholly within such BUILDING and has no exterior SIGNS or displays.
STREET
(9) Incinerators.

(10) In connection with COMMERCIAL or MANUFACTURING USES, the storage of goods normally carried in stock, used in, or produced by such USES, unless the storage is expressly prohibited under the applicable district regulation. The FLOOR AREA used for such ACCESSORY storage shall be included in the maximum FLOOR AREA permitted for specified USES set forth in the Use Groups.

(11) Incidental repairs, unless expressly prohibited under the applicable district regulations. The FLOOR AREA used for such ACCESSORY repairs shall be included in the maximum FLOOR AREA permitted for specified USES set forth in the Use Groups.

(12) The removal for sale of sod, loam, clay, sand, gravel, or stone in connection with the construction of a BUILDING OR OTHER STRUCTURE on the same ZONING LOT, or in connection with the regrading of a ZONING LOT, but in the latter case not below the legal STREET grade.

(13) ACCESSORY off-street parking spaces, open or enclosed.

(14) ACCESSORY off-street loading berths.

(15) ACCESSORY SIGNS.

(16) ACCESSORY radio or television towers.

(17) ACCESSORY activities when conducted underground as part of the operation of railroad passenger terminals, such as switching, storage, maintenance, or servicing of trains.

(18) ACCESSORY sewage disposal plants except such plants serving more than 50 DWELLING UNITS.

(19) An ambulance outpost operated by or under contract with a government agency or a public benefit corporation and located either on the same ZONING LOT as, or on a ZONING LOT adjacent to a ZONING LOT occupied by, a fire or police station.

(See also 1968 Building Code deifinition of ACCESSORY USE)

ACCESS STAIR

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A stair between two floors, which does not serve as a required exit.

ADAPTABLE DWELLING UNITS

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DWELLING UNITS which are constructed on an ACCESSIBLE ROUTE and equipped as set forth in reference standard RS 4-6, so that they may be converted to be used, with a minimum of structural change, by all categories of people having physical disabilities.

ADDITION

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An ALTERATION of a BUILDING in existence that increases its exterior dimensions including but not limited to an extension or increase in floor area or height (including an increase in height or area resulting from the CONSTRUCTION of a rooftop structure for mechanical equipment) of the building.

ADDITION

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An extension or increase in floor area or height of a BUILDING that increases its exterior dimensions. (Superceded by New NYC Construction Codes Definition of ADDITION)

ADJOINING GRADE ELEVATION

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The average elevation of the final grade adjoining all exterior walls of a BUILDING, calculated from grade elevations taken at intervals of ten feet around the perimeter of the building.

ADMINISTRATIVE CODE

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The administrative code of the city of New York.

ADVERTISING SIGN

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An ADVERTISING SIGN is a SIGN that directs attention to a business, profession, commodity, service or entertainment conducted, sold, or offered elsewhere than upon the same ZONING LOT and is not ACCESSORY to a USE located on the ZONING LOT.

AGGREGATE WIDTH OF STREET WALLS

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The AGGREGATE WIDTH OF STREET WALLS at any given level is the sum of the maximum widths of all STREET WALLS of a BUILDING within 50 feet of a STREET LINE. The width of a STREET WALL is the length of the STREET LINE from which, when viewed directly from above, lines perpendicular to the STREET LINE may be drawn to such STREET WALL.

AIR CONDITIONING

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The process by which the temperature, humidity, movement, cleanliness, and odor of air circulated through a space are controlled simultaneously.

AIR-SUPPORTED STRUCTURE

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A structure consisting of skin diaphragms made of flexible material, which achieves its shape, support, and stability from internal air pressure.

ALLOWABLE SOIL PRESSURE

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The maximum stress permitted in soil of a given type and under given conditions.

ALLOWABLE STRESS

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The maximum stress permitted at a given point in a structural member under given conditions.

ALTERATION

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Any CONSTRUCTION, ADDITION, change of use or occupancy, or renovation to a BUILDING or structure in existence.

ALTERATION

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Any ADDITION, or change or modification of a BUILDING, or the service equipment thereof, that affects safety or health and that is not classified as a minor alteration or ordinary repair. The moving of a building from one location or position to another shall be deemed an alteration. (Superceded by New NYC Construction Codes Definition of ALTERATION)

AMUSEMENT ATTRACTION

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A game of chance or skill or similar activity in which the public participates as a form of amusement.

AMUSEMENT DEVICE

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A mechanically operated device or structure, open to the public, used to convey persons in any direction as a form of amusement.

APARTMENT

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That part of a multiple dwelling consisting of one or more rooms containing at least one bathroom and arranged to be occupied by the members of a family, which room or rooms are separated and set apart from all other rooms within a multiple dwelling.