81-41 - General Provisions

LAST AMENDED
8/9/2017


The provisions of Section 81-40 (MANDATORY DISTRICT PLAN ELEMENTS) specify mandatory planning and urban design
features. Requirements which apply generally or with minor specified exceptions throughout the #Special Midtown District# are fully set
forth in the provisions of Section 81-40. For requirements which are not generally applicable but tied to specific locations within the
District, the locations where these requirements apply are shown on Map 3 (Retail and Street Wall Continuity) or Map 4 (Subway Station
and Rail Mass Transit Facility Improvement Areas) in Appendix A of this Chapter.
The provisions of Section 81-40 are all primarily oriented toward the accommodation and well-being of pedestrians. The requirements
pertain to a number of elements which are interrelated and complement one another but are set forth in different sections because they can
be treated separately. Sections 81-42 (Retail Continuity Along Designated Streets), 81-43 (Street Wall Continuity Along Designated
Streets) and 81-44 (Curb Cut Restrictions) are a group of sections with closely related purposes concerned with amenity and the well-being
and safety of pedestrians. Sections 81-45 to 81-48, inclusive, are all concerned primarily with pedestrian traffic circulation. Major
#building# entrances are focal points of heavy pedestrian traffic, so that controls on the locations of these entrances, as set forth in Section
81-48, are closely related to the pedestrian circulation space requirements.

Special district plan requirements for the Penn Center Subdistrict are set forth in Section 81-50, for the East Midtown Subdistrict are set
forth in Section 81-60, for the Theater Subdistrict are set forth in Section 81-70, for the Fifth Avenue Subdistrict are set forth in Section
81-80 and for the Preservation Subdistrict are set forth in Section 81-90.