Yonkers-based NY Riverview Properties LLC is seeking approval from Yonkers to build a 36-unit apartment building at 105-111 Vineyard Ave. The building would have 47 parking spaces.
According to Attorney Janet Giris of the White Plains-based law firm DelBello Donnellan Weingarten Wise & Wiederkehr LLP, the property is about 0.4-acre and is located on the west side of Vineyard Avenue, approximately 0.3-mile north of the intersection of Vineyard Avenue and Ashburton Avenue. It is located in the M District, which allows medium density apartment houses.
The property has on it an accessory parking structure, which Giris describes as being “in disrepair, and which will be demolished in connection with the redevelopment.” The building would have five floors, four of which would be residential.
“The parking spaces will be provided below the residential floors of the building in the cellar (23 spaces) and on the first floor (24 spaces),” Giris said. “The proposed unit mix consists of four (4) studios and 32 one-bedroom units.”
Giris said that the project has been designed to take into consideration the topography of the property, which slopes upward substantially from Vineyard Avenue to the rear of the property. There would be two separate curb cuts for vehicular access. The northerly curb cut would provide access to the cellar level of the parking structure, and the southerly curb cut would provide access to the first floor level of the parking structure.
“Access to the lobby of the building will from the ground floor entrance at Vineyard Avenue,” Giris said. “The lobby will also be accessible via stairs and an elevator from each level of the parking structure.”
Giris noted that the project uses brick and stucco veneer on the façade of the building, and there would be landscaping along the front of the building on Vineyard Avenue.
“Laundry and refuse rooms will be provided on each residential floor,” Giris said. “Fire access is proposed to be provided on Vineyard Avenue in front of the building and will be marked with appropriate fire zone access signage. In addition, the applicant is proposing to install a comprehensive drainage network designed to attenuate stormwater runoff to below pre-developed conditions for storms up to and including the 25-year storm event prior to discharging into the municipal combined sewer.”
The project has received three zoning variances from the Yonkers Zoning Board of Appeals. One permits a decrease in the minimum average lot area per family from the required 800 square feet per family to approximately 488 square feet. The second permits an increase in the maximum permitted building coverage from 40% to 47.15%. The third variance allows an increase in the floor area ratio.
NY Riverview Properties now is seeking site plan approval from the city’s Planning Board.
