DOB and Rules for Front Planter
Hi, When we started our renovation in Carroll Gardens, the DOB stated that we would to install a planter/garden in the front area. Are there specific rules for this? Will a container garden suffice or does it need to be a custom built planter? Is there a minimum size? We were given very little information…
Hi,
When we started our renovation in Carroll Gardens, the DOB stated that we would to install a planter/garden in the front area. Are there specific rules for this? Will a container garden suffice or does it need to be a custom built planter? Is there a minimum size? We were given very little information other than a box in the approved blueprint.
Thanks,
Vinnie
Yes. I believe it is impossible for the government to create this regulation. Certainly it would stimulate a lot of attention and public review.
The city is paved with cement front yards.
Or are you saying it is a new regulation exclusively for new construction of a certain size and type?
In other words, affecting only Ratner type developments and of no relevance to the vast majority of row houses in Brooklyn?
By mopar on April 28, 2011 2:56 PM
I don’t believe it. People are required to install gardens in their front yards? Absolute hogwash.
why ? just because you can’t admit that this is something you didn’t hear ? do you really think it impossible for bloomberg and his cohorts to concoct ?
“the DOB stated that we would to install a planter/garden in the front area” —
I don’t even understand what this statement is supposed to mean.
1) ‘DOB stated’ — verbally? – a written statement? how did they ‘state’?
2) ‘that we would to install’ — totally needs a rewrite: that we are required to install?
that we could install? that we should install?
what are you trying to say?
It depends on your Zoning District and scope of work. I had the same problem, the plan examiner deemed that it was necessary to provide a planting strip. I was able to debunked the objection as per Zoning Resolution. I said the house is in a R5 Zoning District and I did not increase the floor area by 20%.
I don’t believe it. People are required to install gardens in their front yards? Absolute hogwash.
funny how you need approval for this type of stuff, yet the “Dorothy Nash” building on 7th can have violations up the kazoo, and nothing happens….
but when a common person wants to make a flower bed, the DOB has to be notified…..freaking nonsense!!
Check with the ZR and the “Yards text amendments” that I believe DCP implemented in 2009. That will tell you what is required.
I have seen both raised masonry planters & wooden planters, raised beds and in ground planters. I think it’s up to you, but I’d get DOB’s approval, regardless, before you move fwd.
Welcome, CatGar – V.Barbarino has been on before.
Previously, yards and areaways were guided by the general terms of page 32 of this workguide: http://bit.ly/c2dpJj
Maybe your historic district is controlled by different or newer guidelines. If so, your architect or expediter, who presumably submitted your plans, should clarify this for you.