§ 26. Height, bulk, open spaces. 1. Dwellings affected. a. This\nsection, except as may specifically be provided otherwise in articles\nsix and seven, shall apply to all dwellings erected, enlarged, converted\nor altered pursuant to plans filed on or after December fifteenth,\nnineteen hundred sixty-one for the purpose of regulating their height\nand bulk and regulating and determining the area of yards, courts and\nother open spaces of such dwellings.\n b. The construction, enlargement, conversion or alteration of any\ndwelling undertaken pursuant to plans filed prior to December fifteenth,\nnineteen hundred sixty-one in compliance with the provisions of sections\ntwenty-six, twenty-seven and twenty-eight of this chapter, as they\nexisted prior to the enactment of chapter ten hundred seventy-two of the\nlaws of nineteen hundred sixty, effective July first, nineteen hundred\nsixty-one may be commenced, continued or completed as if such sections\nremained in full force and effect. Notwithstanding the provisions of\nsubdivision four of section three hundred, the department shall not\nrequire any change or modification in the height or bulk or in the area\nof yards, courts and other open spaces of dwellings to be erected or\nenlarged pursuant to plans filed prior to December fifteenth, nineteen\nhundred sixty-one as a condition for the reissuance of a building permit\nor the renewal of an approval, except as may otherwise be provided by\nlocal law, ordinance or zoning ordinance.\n c. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require any change in\nthe height, bulk, or open space of any dwelling erected, enlarged,\nconverted or altered pursuant to plans filed before December fifteenth,\nnineteen hundred sixty-one.\n d. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs a, b or c, the\nprovisions of this section shall apply to buildings erected, enlarged,\nconverted or altered pursuant to plans filed prior to December\nfifteenth, nineteen hundred sixty-one, where such compliance may be\nrequired by local law, ordinance or zoning ordinance.\n 2. Definitions. For the purpose of this section certain words are\ndefined herein but such definitions shall not be held to modify or\naffect legal interpretations of such terms or words as used in any local\nlaw, ordinance, rule or regulation and shall apply in addition to and\nnot in substitution for the provisions of section four of this chapter.\n a. "Accessory use or accessory structure": a use or structure\ncustomarily incident to the principal use or building:\n b. "Floor area": the sum of the gross horizontal areas of all of the\nseveral floors of a dwelling or dwellings and accessory structures on a\nlot measured from the exterior faces of exterior walls or from the\ncenter line of party walls, except:\n (1) cellar space;\n (2) attic space providing head room of less than eight feet;\n (3) space for mechanical equipment;\n (4) elevator and stair bulkheads, tanks and cooling towers;\n (5) open or roofed terraces, exterior balconies or porches, uncovered\nsteps and open porte-cocheres or breezeways abutting or adjoining grade\nentrances;\n (6) accessory space used for off-street motor vehicle parking or\nstorage.\n c. "Floor area ratio (FAR)": A figure determined by dividing the floor\narea of the several floors of all buildings on a lot by the area of such\nlot.\n d. "Corner lot": A lot bounded entirely by streets or a lot which\nadjoins the point of intersections of two of more streets and in which\nthe interior angle formed by the extensions of the street lines in the\ndirections which they take at their intersections with lot lines other\nthan street lines, forms an angle of one hundred thirty-five degrees or\nless. In the event that any street line is a curve at its point of\nintersection with a lot line other than a street line, the tangent to\nthe curve at that point shall be considered the direction of the street\nline. The portion of such lot subject to the regulatio
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