APPENDIX VII.— BUILDING ZONE RESOLUTION 



(Adopted July 25, 1916) 



A Resolution regulating and limiting the height and bulk of buildings here- 

 after erected and regulating and determining the area of yards, courts 

 and other open spaces, and regulating and restricting the location of 

 trades and industries and the location of buildings designed for specified 

 uses and establishing the boundaries of districts for the said purposes. 



Be it resolved by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment of The 

 City of New York: 



Article I — Definitions 



§ 1. Definitions. Certain words in this resolution are defined for the 

 purposes thereof as follows: 



(a) Words used in the present tense include the future; the singular 

 number includes the plural and the plural the singular ; the word " lot " 

 includes the word " plot " ; the word " building " includes the word " struc- 

 ture." 



(b) The " street line " is the dividing line between the street and the lot. 



(c) The "width of the street" is the mean of the distances between 

 the sides thereof within a block. Where a street borders a public place, 

 public park or navigable body of water the width of the street is the mean 

 width of such street plus the width, measured at right angles to the street 

 line, of such public place, public park or body of water. 



(d) The " curb level," for the purpose of measuring the height of any 

 portion of a building, is the mean level of the curb in front of such portion 

 of the building. But where a building is on a corner lot the curb level is the 

 mean level of the curb on the street of greatest width. If such greatest 

 width occurs on more than one street the curb level is the mean level of 

 the curb on that street of greatest width which has the highest curb eleva- 

 tion. The " curb level " for the purpose of regulating and determining the 

 area of yards, courts and open spaces is the mean level of the curb at that 

 front of the building where there is the highest curb elevation. Where no 

 curb elevation has been established or the building does not adjoin the street 

 the average ground level of the lot shall be considered the curb level. 



(e) A " street wall " of a building, at any level, is the wall or part of 

 the building nearest to the street line. 



(f) The " height of a building " is the vertical distance measured in the 

 case of flat roofs from the curb level to the level of the highest point of the 

 roof beams adjacent to the street wall, and in the case of pitched roofs 

 from the curb level to the mean height level of the gable. Where no roof 

 beams exist or there are structures wholly or partly above the roof the 

 height shall be measured from the curb level to the level of the highest point 

 of the building. Where a building is a tenement house as defined in the 

 Tenement House Law the height of the building on the street line shall be 

 measured as prescribed in said law for the measurement of the- height of a 

 tenement house and such measurement shall be from the curb level as that 

 term is used in said law. 



(g) The " depth of a lot " is the mean distance from the street line of 

 the lot to its rear line measured in the general direction of the side lines 

 of the lot. 



