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Consents & Variances

March 2011, Consents & Variances Committee

2011 Applications to be denied for out of district

WHEREAS, Community Board Five has received the following 10 applications for street festivals:

1. Gramercy Park Neighborhood Association, Broadway, between 17^th and 23^rd Streets, on Sunday, May 15
2. Gramercy Park Block Association, Broadway, between 17^th and 23^rd Streets, on Saturday, October 1
3. Gramercy Stuyvesant Independent Democrats, Broadway, between 17^th and 23^rd Streets, on Sunday, October 30
4. NY Young Republican Club, on Broadway, between 47^th and 57^th Streets, on Saturday, June 18
5. The Manhattan Republican Club, street festival on Park Avenue South, between 17^thand 23^rd Streets, on Saturday, October 22
6. Congress of Racial Equality, on Broadway, between 47^th and 57^th Street, on Sunday, July 31
7. USO of Metropolitan New York, on Avenue of the Americas, between 42^nd and 56^th Streets, on Saturday, July 2
8. Big Apple Performing Arts, on Broadway, between 47^th and 57^th streets, on Sunday, August 28
9. New York Emperors Stickball League Inc., on Vanderbilt Avenue, between 42^nd and 44^th Streets, on Saturday, May 7 (NEW)
10. Ukrainian Family Day, on Broadway, between 34^th and 35^th Streets, on Sunday, May         15 (NEW)

WHEREAS, Community Board Five has passed a resolution requiring that all sponsoring organizations of street fairs be indigenous to Community Board Five; and

WHEREAS, Community Board Five has further defined that requirement as "having a physical street address within Community Board Five"; and

WHEREAS, Over the past several years, SAPO has used best efforts to relocated street fairs so that events take place within the board where the sponsoring entity holds its business address; and

WHEREAS, The sponsors for the above-mentioned applications are not located within Community Board Five, nor do they have specific jurisdiction over the district; and

WHEREAS, Community Board Five acknowledges the great contributions many of these organizations have made to New York City and Community Board Five; and

WHEREAS, In order to be fair and impartial, Community Board Five is attempting to judge applications in a non-subjective manner so as not to consider the merits of the organization itself, but rather on tangible facts such as business address of organization and impact on the community,  therefore be it

RESOLVED, That Community Board Five recommends denial of the above-mentioned applications.

The above resolution passed by a vote of 28 in favor; 0 opposed; 2 abstaining.