BSA Haters Now Have a Facebook Group!
A Facebook group called “NYC Board of Standards and Appeals approves too many variances” was launched this week to protest the BSA’s notoriously developer-friendly ways. As of yesterday, the group had more than 30 members. It was started by a woman who is evidently less than pleased about a BSA ruling in her neighborhood: “This…
A Facebook group called “NYC Board of Standards and Appeals approves too many variances” was launched this week to protest the BSA’s notoriously developer-friendly ways. As of yesterday, the group had more than 30 members. It was started by a woman who is evidently less than pleased about a BSA ruling in her neighborhood: “This scenario is played out in all our boroughs. Community input disregarded. Input which is required by the protocol of the board. A variance was recently granted in my neighborhood to allow a 5 foot frontage on a new construction. Zoning regualtions require 15 feet and most homes on the block have 35 feet or more. Residents, the community board,the local councilman opposed the variance with little effect. It was granted.”
NYC Board of Standards and Appeals approves too many variances [Facebook]
Oh bo oh the haters are so mean and cruel to those idiots that bought homes during the bubble and now us haters don’t do enough to keep home prices stabile so these moroons can unload their turds. Sorry but greed has made you blind.
Someone needs to start a Facebook protest to repeal the outlawing of incandescent light. I was at yet another restaurant in Brooklyn last night (Fiore, Italian in Williamsburg) noting the gazillions of Edison bulbs lighting that place. They have more light fixtures than tables!
It’s gonna be a sad, sad day in Brooklyn when everyone has to stick florescents in their exposed lighting. Maybe it will cause a remodeling boom.
The BSA is full of criminals
what can we Facebook haters start?
Better a discussion than nothing…doing nothing is “lame.”
“Variances should not be given to build homes which do not comply with zoning regulations.”
Um, that’s what a variance is. And having a variance mechanism is required so that zoning regulations don’t become a regulatory taking, which removes all value from a property. Whether there’s a legitimate economic hardship involved with complying with zoning, and whether the variance granted is the minimum necessary to allow viable use of the property, is a case-by-case matter.
Lame