91-41 Regulations for Designated Retail Streets

The #use# regulations of this Section, inclusive, shall apply to #buildings developed# after August 27, 1998, and to #buildings enlarged# on the ground floor level after August 27, 1998.

For any #development# or #enlargement# fronting on the ground floor level of designated retail #streets#, as shown on Map 4 in Appendix A, the #street# frontage of the #building# shall be allocated exclusively to the #uses# set forth in Section 91-12 (Uses on Designated Retail Streets). However, #uses# located within lobby or entrance spaces, subway station improvements or pedestrian circulation spaces that do not front on the ground floor level of the #street# shall be in accordance with the provisions for permitted #uses# of the underlying district.

Where the #street# frontage occupied by all #building# entrances is 20 feet or more in width, the amount of #street# frontage occupied by lobby space, entrance space and #building# entrance recesses shall not exceed, in total, 40 linear feet or 25 percent of the #building's# total #street# frontage, whichever is less, exclusive of any frontage occupied by a relocated subway stair or the entrance area to a bonused subway station improvement.

Storefronts for permitted ground floor #uses# shall be no more than 10 feet from the #street line# or, where an #arcade# is provided with supporting columns at the #street line#, no more than 10 feet from the supporting columns.

Access to each permitted establishment or #use# shall be provided directly from the designated retail #street#, as shown on Map 4 in Appendix A. Where there is more than one entrance to the establishment or #use# from the designated retail #street#, direct access shall be provided via the entrance with the greatest aggregate clear opening width.

At least 50 percent of the #street wall# surface of each permitted establishment or #use# shall be glazed with clear untinted transparent material and not more than 50 percent of such transparent surface shall be painted or obstructed with #signs#.

For the purposes of this glazing requirement, the #street wall# surface of each permitted establishment shall be measured from the floor to the height of the ceiling or 14 feet above grade, whichever is less.