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Packet from the Zoning Board of Appeals meeting 3/10/2025 (attached)

Variances on the agenda: green code analysis

  1. 3.2.11.D.a: front setback
  2. 3.2.11.D.c: corner side setback
  3. 3.2.11.E: density
  4. 3.2.11.E.a: height
  5. 3.2.11.F.d: blank wall
  6. 7.2.2.B.4: fence height
  7. 8.A: bicycle parking
  • perhaps 8.2.1.B: 90% of required bike spots (4 or 5?) secure, sheltered, and enclosed
  • vs 6 unsecure, unsheltered, non-enclosed
  1. 8.3.3.A.1: parking lot location
  2. 9.4.1.A.2: sign size

Buffalo Green Code: https://bufgreencode.com/

Criteria for (Area?) Variance

  1. 11.3.5.E.2.i: fits the character of the area
  2. 11.3.5.E.2.ii: no more reasonable alternatives
  3. 11.3.5.E.2.iii: not too substantial of a variance
  4. 11.3.5.E.2.iv: no adverse consequences
  5. 11.3.5.E.2.v: not a self-created problem

Other green code violations in the plans

  1. 3.2.11.D.d: interior side setback
  • 3.2.1.F: additional 1 foot per height in excess of bordering zone
  • about 1.5' too close to 301 Lafayette SE corner of lot
  1. 7.1.4.A.1: new street trees
  • 6 required on hoyt, none in plans
  1. 7.1.5.A: parking landscape required
  • none in plans
  1. 7.1.5.B.2: parking landscape on interior border
  • 7.1.6: 5' 5' buffer: shrubs and wall on interior border
  • only 1.5' buffer next to Lafayette SW corner of lot
  • barely 1' buffer next to to 299 Lafayette garage
  1. 7.1.5.C.1: 10% of parking lot interior landscaped
  • none in plans
  1. 7.1.5.C.2: 1 shade tree
  • none in plans
  1. 7.1.5.C.3: terminal islands, 8', w/tree
  • none in plans

Major site plan review

  1. 11.3.7.C.1: major review required prior to building permit being issued

  2. 11.3.7.D.14: landscape plan required

  • 7.1.1.B: no relevant exception

  1. 11.3.7.D.15: Storm Water Pollution Protection Plan (SWPPP) required a. 7.1.5.C.5: integrated with parking interior landscaping b. 7.3.1.A: no relevant exception c. 7.3.3.A: erosion and sediment control also required d. 7.3.3.C: follow the NYS Storm Water Management Design Manual e. 7.3.3.D: peak flow in a 25 year storm must be less than pre-construction peak flow in a 2 year storm

  2. 11.3.7.D.16 lighting plan required

  • 7.4.1.B: no relevant exception
7/6/2025, 3:49:33 PM
Chris Nicolai
301 Lafayette
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