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Trinity Alliance seeks 0-foot rear setback for addition at 15 Trinity Place; BZA consents to Planning Board lead agency
Summary
Trinity Alliance asked the Board of Zoning Appeals for a rear-yard area variance at 15 Trinity Place to return a building footprint to a historical lot line. The BZA consented to the Planning Board acting as lead agency for environmental review and deferred final action pending that review and related approvals.
On Feb. 5, 2025, the Board of Zoning Appeals for the City of Albany heard a request from Trinity Alliance of the Capital District to allow a 0-foot rear setback at 15 Trinity Place where the zoning code requires a 15-foot rear yard.
The request covers an addition on the footprint of a former church and would let Trinity Alliance place a ground-floor food pantry, a bicycle-share station and a pantry warehouse in a tightly constrained urban lot, designers said. Echo, a representative of Faze Design Group representing Trinity Alliance, said the project team is in the “design development phase” and working under deadlines tied to public funding. “We recently received an EPA grant for about $20,000,000,” Echo said.
The project team told the BZA the addition would consolidate…
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