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The Board has established standard information and notes that should be placed on drawings submitted with various types of applications. The procedure attempts to address most application types.

Series applications involve the construction of multiple buildings on separate zoning lots that result from a subdivision of either an existing zoning lot or a zoning lot formed through a merger.

The goals of the procedure are to streamline the application process and reduce the quantity of submitted material.

All series applications must follow these procedures to be calendared. 

The BSA has implemented the following CEQR procedures which relate to required CEQR documents and information, interagency coordination and review, and sign-offs neccessary for calendaring and decisions.

Pre-application Meetings are designed to facilitate discussion between potential applicants and the BSA of development proposals that may require discretionary relief.

Such meetings are conducted on an informal basis, and have no bearing on the ultimate outcome of the case if subsequently filed. Although the BSA greatly favors the use of the Pre-application Meeting process, an application may be formally filed even though a meeting was not held.

Draft Applications, which are an adjunct to the Pre-application Meeting process, are submitted for staff-level review prior to formal filing. This review is designed to reduce the number of comments on the Notice of Objections, and to ensure that filed applications, which are later sent to community boards, elected officials, and neighbors, have fewer deficiencies.

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