APPENDIX I— CHARTER PROVISIONS 



Sections 242a and 242b of Greater New York Charter, as Enacted by 



Chapter 470 of Laws of 1914 and Amended by Chapter 497 



of Laws of 1916. 



§ 242a. The board of estimate and apportionment shall have power to 

 regulate and limit the height and bulk of buildings hereafter erected and to 

 regulate and determine the area of yards, courts and other open spaces. 

 The board may divide the city into districts of such number, shape and area 

 as it may deem best suited to carry out the purposes of this section. The 

 regulations as to the height and bulk of buildings and the area of yards, 

 courts and other open spaces shall be uniform for each class of buildings 

 throughout each district. The regulations in one or more districts may 

 differ from those in other districts. Such regulations shall be designed to 

 secure safety from fire and other dangers and to promote the public health 

 and welfare, including, so far as conditions may permit, provision for ade- 

 quate light, air and convenience of access. The board shall pay reasonable 

 regard to the character of buildings erected in each district, the value of the 

 land and the use to which it may be put to the end that such regulations may 

 promote public health, safety and welfare and the most desirable use for 

 which the land of each district may be adapted and may tend to conserve the 

 value of buildings and enhance the value of land throughout the city. The 

 board shall appoint a commission to recommend the boundaries of districts 

 and appropriate regulations to be enforced therein. Such commission shall 

 make a tentative report and hold public hearings thereon at such times and 

 places as said board shall require before submitting its final report. Said 

 board shall not determine the boundaries of any district nor impose any 

 regulation until after the final report of a commission so appointed. After 

 such final report said board shall afford persons interested an opportunity 

 to be heard at a time and place to be specified in a notice of hearing to be 

 published for ten consecutive days in the City Record. The board may 

 from time to time after public notice and hearing amend, supplement or 

 change said regulations or districts, but in case a protest against a proposed 

 amendment, supplement or change be presented, duly signed and acknowl- 

 edged by the owners of twenty per centum or more of the frontage proposed 

 to be altered, or by the owners of twenty per centum of the frontage imme- 

 diately in the rear thereof, or by the owners of twenty per centum of the 

 frontage directly opposite the frontage proposed to be altered, such amend- 

 ment shall not be passed except by a unanimous vote of the board. 



§ 242b. The board of estimate and apportionment may regulate and 

 restrict the location of trades and industries and the location of buildings 

 designed for specified uses, and may divide the city into districts of such 

 number, shape and area as it may deem best suited to carry out the purposes 

 of this section. For each such district regulations may be imposed designat- 



