The zoning calls for buildings that are six or seven stories high, a move opponents said was intended to accommodate Hasidics, who cannot use elevators on the Sabbath for religious reasons.
The authorization, which was included into a 1992 zoning change, called for ceremonial arches and canopies to be built near 68th Street and Freedom Place.
Greece's creditors — the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank — have made it clear that they want the development of a land registry and a zoning map, called a cadastre, sped up.
The zoning amendment, called the Unified Bulk Program, would set new restrictions on the height of buildings, increase the number of storefronts in neighborhoods and eliminate plazas and other open space not being used efficiently, officials have said.
For the Tall Grass development, Mr. Ornstein is seeking a zoning designation called a planned development district, created by the Town of Brookhaven, which encompasses Shoreham, to control growth by clustering development in preferred areas to maximize open space.
According to city tradition, aldermen have exclusive authority to change zoning requirements — often called spot zoning — to allow construction that would otherwise violate the city's zoning ordinances.
In Smithtown, where the town zoning code calls for a minimum lot size of one acre for each single-family house, civic leaders battled the Kings Park developers' original plan to build 3,031 housing units on 361 acres.
The plan for the west side, a proposed $100 million project that still must be approved by the borough's zoning board, calls for a seven-story 168-room hotel and 500,000 square feet of offices in buildings of 4, 6 and 12 stories as well as retail space.
Chairman of the zoning board, David L. Auspitz, called the feud the "Super Bowl of zoning battles".
In a chapter called "Zoning" we learn how the family home has been divided, by some unwritten law, into two distinct territories.
