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Manhattan Community Board Five
400 Fifth Avenue (36th Street) request for a parking regulation change to accommodate a hotel loading zone on the north side of 36th Street
WHEREAS, 400 Fifth Avenue Realty, LLC, has received approval to develop the property located on the northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and 36th Street as a hotel and residential condominium; and
WHEREAS, The project already is under construction, with completion expected in the spring of 2010; and
WHEREAS, The project will consist of a luxury 59-story mixed-use building, comprised of 190 residential units, a hotel with 214 keys, and a restaurant; and
WHEREAS, The entrance to the residential tower will be on the north side of 36th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues; and
WHEREAS, Although the entrance to the hotel will be on Fifth Avenue, because there is a double bus lane in front of the hotel entrance and because by law the hotel is not permitted to have a loading/unloading zone on Fifth Avenue, the developer is requesting that a no-parking zone, reserved for loading and unloading guests who will be entering and exiting the hotel on a regular basis, be therefore located on the north side of West 36th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues; and
WHEREAS, This no-parking zone, because it will be in front of the residential entrance, will also be utilized to some extent by the residential tower's tenants; and
WHEREAS, While the official length of the no-parking zone will be 125 feet, its actual usable length will be only 97 feet, sufficient to accommodate up to four cars at one time; and
WHEREAS, This no-parking zone will be monitored by hotel personnel to ensure that it will be utilized only for loading and unloading passengers who are either hotel guests or tower tenants; and
WHEREAS, The no-parking zone will be replacing commercial parking operating from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays in four-hour intervals; and
WHEREAS, The purpose of this no-parking zone is to mitigate vehicular congestion on this block that probably would be caused by double- and triple-parked cars in its absence due to the greater volume of traffic produced by the hotel and condominium tower; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That Community Board Five approves the request by 400 Fifth Avenue Realty for a parking regulation change to accommodate a hotel loading and unloading zone on the north side of West 35th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
The above resolution passed with a vote of 28 in favor, 2 opposed, 1 abstaining.