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Project: 30-70 38th Street

New York City neighborhoods are shaped by a strange patchwork of zoning designed for ideal properties in convenient locations. But thousands of lots don’t fit into a perfect, rectangular mold. They’re irregularly shaped, up against the railroad tracks, in a flood zone, or cross between two different zoning districts. That last situation is what brought an Astoria developer to the City Planning Commission on Monday.

Great Neck-based owner George Elliott hopes to build a five-story apartment building at 30-70 38th Street, between 30th and 31st avenues. But his development site is split between two zoning districts, each of which has a different height limit. He wants his whole site rezoned under higher-density of the two, R6B, which allows a fifty foot height limit. The lower-density zoning is suburban-style, where new buildings can only reach up to 33 feet tall and need to have plenty of parking.

If the city approves the rezoning, the developer will build a five-story, 26-unit building. They’d be spread across 27,450 square feet of residential space, and the average unit would measure 1,055 square feet. The development would also have a 13-car garage in the cellar.

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