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It pisses me off whenever I'm walking around Manhattan and I see new buildings going up that are only a few floors tall. It's such a poor use of limited space. And yet there are zoning regulations that limit vast swaths of even Manhattan to low heights (often lower than many of the existing structures that were built awhile ago). Check out this PDF of East Village as an example: http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/zoning/zoni...

All of those R7* and R8B zones only allow floor area ratios of 3-4, meaning that if a building takes up the entire lot, which is common, it is limited to those numbers of floors.




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