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Consents & Variances

December 2010, Consents & Variances Committee

Newsstand application # 1375049, NEC 6th Avenue and 27th Street

WHEREAS, The applicant seeks a permit to install and operate a newsstand on NEC 27^th Street and 6^th Avenue; and

WHEREAS, The applicant failed to appear at a regularly scheduled meeting and failed to address questions and concerns CB5 had about the application; and

WHEREAS, Two other newsstands have been approved within just a few blocks of the proposed location since May of 2009 (on the East side of 6^th Avenue b/t 24^th and 25^th and on the East side of 6^th Avenue b/t 25^th and 26^th); and

WHEREAS, those two newsstands and other stores in the vicinity will adequately serve the neighborhood; therefore be it

RESOLVED, That Community Board Five recommends denial of the application to install a newsstand on NEC 27^th Street and 6^th Avenue.

The above resolution passed  by a vote of 33 in favor; 0 opposed; 1 abstaining.