Note. —This resolution in the Bulletin. Please notify formal errors so that corrections BOARD MEETING OF: CALENDAR NO.: PREMISES: ACTION OF BOARD THE VOTE — Affirmative: Chair Commissioner Commissioner Negative: THE RESOLUTION — The decision of the 22, 2025, acting on New in pertinent part: “Proposed establishment with requires a special permit Section 32-00 and must Appeals.” This is an application in a C4-3 zoning district, accessory to a proposed, drinking establishment A public hearing 2025, after due notice continued hearing on February 9, 2026. Chair inspections of the site Community Board application with the 1. Confirmation accommodate 2. Confirmation 3. Confirmation racks to accommodate 4. Conformation jobs; and 5. The applicant The Board also received objection from adjacent Street, 58 Whipple Street, citing concerns about Premises such as compactor, and late-night of the drive-through. The Premises are between Thorton Street district, in Brooklyn. Broadway, 100 feet of the Premises are currently UG VI, eating and drinking The applicant seeks an accessory, drive-through one-story, as-of-right, consisting of 5,030 square the site would have two new curb cuts: one, with a 17′ curb cut and with a 28-foot curb cut. Z.R. § 73-311 states, In C1 through C7 may permit modification to allow accessory under Use Group – Retail and Services), As a threshold matter, boundaries of a designated district— in which the also states that its determination 03, which dictates, in safeguards imposed, at large of such special by the advantages to special permit,” and quiet, light and air in minimized by appropriate limited to] location of First, the applicant facility contains reservoir than 10 automobiles, establishment; or (2) at maximum expected the applicant submitted through facility contains to 6 parking spaces Accordingly, the Board contains sufficient reservoir Next, the applicant would not create or contribute not unduly inhibit surface applicant points out proposed pedestrian Right Of Way (i.e.: crosswalks, etc.) and congestion and/ or applicant states that an established customer through service, it is establishment would currently visits the represents that the driveway one, “Enter” driveway along Thorton Street Street, which currently proposed drive-through vehicles to queue, therefore, anticipated, and the Premises points and to enhance Accordingly, the Board cause minimal interference Furthermore, the subject commercial street reflects substantial orientation the level of motor vehicle contained within the represents that the Premises a block that is zoned posits that the Premises Broadway that are compatible Accordingly, the Board district street frontage substantial orientation of motor vehicle generation within such area and Moreover, the applicant would not have an undue immediate vicinity including noise, lighting, states that the proposed receptors (e.g., operable within 200 feet of atypical or bridges. Furthermore, project also does not involve physical changes that roadways, and because peak hour vehicle trips—passenger (“HDDVs”)—that approach Review (“CEQR”) thresholds 23 HDDVs on arterials), as no impacts are anticipated, Technical Manual. As further explained Memo, dated November analyses, the proposed Technical Manual thresholds roadway network. As conditions are expected conditions and impacts anticipated as a result facility. Finally, the commercial, and the building with ground community facility. analysis, which found same number of pedestrian establishment is to be Accordingly, the commercially zoned street reflects substantial orientation the level of motor commercial uses contained or drinking place (excluding portion). The applicant further buffering between the uses. In support, the Broadway is zoned commercial a mixed-use building profit community facility. be adequate buffering residential uses. Over the course conditions at the Premises neighbors and the community letter to the affected January 15, 20
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