New York City’s 1916 Zoning Resolution — the first citywide zoning code in the US to be established — included a requirement that large buildings taper off as they rise so as not to block ...

The state passed the 1961 Multiple Dwelling Law while the city simultaneously amended the 1916 zoning resolution, thus locking the 12 FAR cap into place. “There really wasn’t any empirical basis for ...

The board included George McAneny, a progressive reformer and onetime Manhattan borough president, and Lawson Purdy, a tax expert who had helped devise New York’s 1916 zoning resolution to protect ...

The deal, taking effect a year later and known as the 1961 Zoning Resolution, was the culmination of a multi-decade effort to replace the city’s 1916 zoning framework with one ostensibly suitable for ...

This led to the introduction of zoning laws, with the 1916 Zoning Resolution in New York City being one of the earliest instances of such regulations. These laws were designed to control the ...

The first was on July 25, 1916, when the Board of Estimate and ... The name shortened Board of Estimate voted in a new zoning resolution on Dec. 15, 1960, led this time by Mayor Robert Wagner.

blocking out the sunlight. More than any single property, it spurred the 1916 Zoning Resolution, the first zoning law in the country, which required setbacks on tall towers that we are all ...

A straightforward skyscraper wasn’t in the cards though. The 1916 Zoning Resolution included safeguards to protect the air and light flow down city streets as Manhattan rapidly developed. Every NYC ...