Bronx family livid after developer builds apartment 12 inches from their home

ny post ^ | january 18, 2013 | LIA EUSTACHEWICH

[Tea Party Terrorist]

Exactly. Buyer Beware. There is a reason why there is a due diligence clause in most real estate contracts. And like I always tell a client when they see vacant land near a property they want to buy...”it’s entirely possible and likely that land will be developed at some point in time. “

[muawiyah]

Sounds like the fascists and commies have taken over your town's planning department ~ what they are scheming to do is impose the Stacked Sardine standards ~ WITHOUT looking at FAR ~ thats the Floor Area Ratio and should be used to guide development above 2 stories just about anywhere.

Here's the problem for planners ~ you can sometimes get a zoning overlay district that gets beaten down in court 20 years from now because you forgot to change the actual zoning.

What your community can do to combat the planners is simply apply for designation as a PUD (planned unit development) ~ which will prevent any further zoning changes affecting anything in your area unless the entire PUD is challenged. The PUD is ordinarily used by developers for new developments where they want to leave open space ~ usually cricks, forests, rockpiles ~ so they'll trade those spaces for higher zoning densities where homes are actually built. The sme standard can also be used to protect a community not otherwise eligible for an historic designation.

[muawiyah]

This is the Bronx. There are areas that have been reverted to lower density standards ~ we used to call them 'the burned out areas' ~ wild places. Friend of mine lived there in a co-op. A former semi-highrise ~ where you walked up maybe 8 flights of stairs, was converted to a modern structure with an elevator, and new kitchen/bathunits ~ dropped in rom the top down a space cut into every floor. A neat idea.

He loved his co-op.

Some of the older smarmier buildings in the Bronx are actually very well built ~ they're just old and dangerous ~ bad wiring ~ bad water ~ bad sewers ~ bad interior walls ~ nasty buildup of stuff.

When he moved to Virginia he sold his co-op for half a mil.

[lowbridge]

According to the article, they didn’t build the house. They purchased the house 13 years ago as it was.

[lowbridge]

According to the article, they didn’t build the house. They purchased the house 13 years ago as it was.

[Albion Wilde]

How can you have setback rules when the lot is maybe 20 - 25 feet wide?

Many city dwellings are very narrow and very deep. The last time I lived in a city rowhouse, it was 14 feet wide, but almost 100 deep, with four stories. Much more room than I now have in a more conventional house.

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

“It’s preposterous. The fact that [the developer] can build that close — I don’t understand,” Patty said.

You understand that your house is built right up to the line too, right Patty?