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11 comments:
This guy looks like a real piece of crap!
Maybe this goombah needs a bulldozer driven right up his ass to his tonsils, to remind him to keep his word!
Why didn't Feiner or Iannece go to the DOB's plan room and pull the bldg. plans? They can get permission from the CB to do so. Do that and you'll see if the plans match what's being built there. Anything else than this course of action means you're not serious about what's going on.
Out of sheer curiousity, I visited the site yesterday early before construction began. The home appears to be huge from behind the fence. It looks like a 3,000 sq. ft. home. It is certainly not a 1,500 sq. ft. home.
If they have not built according to plans and the house is "overbuilt", the job needs to be "stopped" and the DOB has to be made to inspect the project to verify if they have built according to plans. Make a complaint that they are not "building according to plans". If they are not, it will no doubt be "extremely" obvious to an inspector.
I would go down to the Queens DOB office and ask to see the plans. You can have a copy made, usually while you wait. These are public files and you do not need the permissio of the Community Board to review them. Obviously, the plans for a 1,500 sq. ft. house and a 3,000 sq. ft. house would be very different. Perhaps, there is an illegal second floor?
Also, I can't help but wonder why there is a huge excavator in the front yard behind the fence. That could be dangerous and a violation. Perhaps a complaint should be made to the DOB.
I would think that you might want "somehow" to get a Stop Work Order issued so that they cannot continue construction. An investigation needs to be started to look into the matter.
What I observed from the BIS Website is that:
THERE ARE: 24 OPEN ITEMS OF 43 REQUIRED FOR JOB PRIOR TO APPROVAL & PERMIT ONLY
Point of Information:
Bonifilo signed two TR-1s which can be viewed on the BIS Website: one is blank and on the second one he takes responsibility for the inspections. That is a "big" responsibility for him on such a "controversial" project. It appears that he may not have done them. Or, perhaps he now does not want to take responsibility for having done them. He has not signed off yet as having done the inspections. They have not yet been certified "either".
That is a "very important" matter.
TO ME THAT COULD BE A RED FLAG - SOMETHING IS WRONG. HE MAY HAVE DECIDED FOR SOME REASON THAT HE NO LONGER WANTS THAT RESPONSIBILITY.
HE PROBABLY AT SOME POINT WILL WITHDRAW FROM THE RESPONSIBILITY. THEN, the DOB will have the owner/developer/architect hire at their expense a "Special Inspector".
What I would do is write a letter to Queens Borough Commissioner Derek Lee asking him to stop the job and inspect the job as it appears that they are not building according to plans. Copies should be sent to Commissioner Robert LiMandri; the: BSA; Senator Tony Avella; Queens Borough President; Councilman Halloran and anyone else that you deem appropriate.
The permits for the project are all going to expire on 1/05/13. So if there are any serious infractions, you want them not to be renewed. You probably would need to try to get a stop work order issued "somehow".
Block: 7395; Lot 14 - Residential Building Gross is stated as 1,491 on Application for Mergers or Apportionments.
This is an excerpt from: NOTE : B.S.A. # : 6-11-BZ
THAT THE PARAMETERS OF THE PROPOSED HOME SHALL BE AS FOLLOWS: 1,491 SQ.FT OF FLOOR AREA(0.45 FAR FOR LOT 16), FOR TOTAL OF 2,975.6 FT OF FLOOR AREA ON THE ZONING LOT (0.39 FAR FOR THE ZONING LOT); A SIDE YARD WITH A
MINIMUM WIDTH OF 5'-0" ALONG THE WESTERN LOT LINE; AND A MINIMUM DISTANCE OF 13'-0" BETWEEN THE PROPOSED HOME ON LOT 16 AND THE EXISTING HOME ON LOT 13, AS ILLUSTRATED IN THE BSA APPROVED PLANS;
You need to make sure that all their papers are in order. If not, go after the matter.
There is something strange about the lot numbers mentioned on various documents at the DOB, BSA and the Dept. of Finance. There should be two lot nos. only.
The original lot is No. 14 - 50-20 216th Street.
Then, mention is made to Lot No. 13 and Lot No. 16. That does not make sense. Two houses / 2 lot nos.
No. 13 should be the lot where the new building is - 50-24 216th Street.
In a subdivision, the original address and lot no. should remain the same. Presumably, there should be taxes being paid on both lots in the subdivision.
The new structure gets assigned an address and new lot no.
It appears to be a one lot zoning development with two tax lots.
That is the loophole, I suppose that they used.
Acris:
http://a836-acris.nyc.gov/Scripts/DocSearch.dll/ViewImage?Doc_ID=2009121000711001
Zoning Lot Description (which is usually filed with DOB)
Mentions that tax lot no. 14 is to become lot no. 13 and 16.
Perhaps someone should look into the Dept. of Finance website and see what comes up. Taxes should be showing for No. 14 and No. 13 (if that is the new lot number assigned by the BP) which I believe should be the new house tax lot no.
Something seems strange here also.
Do your homework? It could pay off.
Well, we gave them some important information.
Take the ball and run, run with it.
Good luck.
If you have any questions, write them here and we will try to help.
We need to put an end to the DOB and BSA running all of our lives.
The time could be nearing. Persistence.
FEINER ARE YOU LISTENING or JUST HAPPY TO SEE YOURSELF on the TELLY???????????
I cant believe that educated adults say things like it "LOOKS" big....WTF does that mean? How about doing some simple multiplication. Width times length gives you basic sq footage. This guy Fiener def has something wrong. Elevator does'nt go to the top floor for sure and his cronies at the Bayside Hills CA, are all on the same floor. IF the house was'nt built as planned the DOB would have shut them down. COME ON people. If you have a mis-sized beam, and error on the size of making it bigger, they'll STILL SHUT YOU DOWN. I should know. So all this fan fare and hype about this house is nothing by BS. Im sure that the BHCA is going to open their arms up wide for their new neighbor! or will they demonstrate their hate towards them as well. I'd go with the later.
BTW, this is a Single Family Home for crying out load. Not a slum, like you see in Flushing <-- Right Feiner? Flushing is a shit hole. That's what you told me on the side at the CB meeting. That was great since I live there. I'd rather be in this shit hole though then living next to your sorry, pathetic sole.
A typical house on 40' x 100' in Bayside Hills is between 1,200 and 1,500 square feet in size. That goes for the house next door, which is 1,296 square feet.
There is no way that the building under construction is only 1,491 square feet of LIVING SPACE in an R2A zone.
The R2A zone removed all of the exemptions and loopholes with the exception of 300 square feet for a garage.
Even using that number - approximately 1,500 square feet plus 300 square feet for a garage, for total of 1,800 square feet - it's clear from looking at the house (and I've looked at it closely) that it's significantly larger than it's supposed to be.
Paul Graziano
Joe F:
You are condescending and vulgar.
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