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ALL RIGHT.[ TOWN OF GREENBURGH ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS GREENBURGH TOWN HALL FINAL AGENDA MONDAY, September 13, 2021 – 7:00 P.M. ]
I BELIEVE WE'RE READY TO START.MIKE'S ON THE MEETING OF THE ZONING BOARD.
TOWN OF, UH, ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS FOR THE TOWN OF GREENBURG WILL COME TO ORDER.
WE HAVE EIGHT CASES SCHEDULED ON TONIGHT'S AGENDA.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ZONING BOARD WILL HAVE OUR NEXT REGULAR MEETING ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21ST.
AS USUAL, IF WE CANNOT COMPLETE THE HEARING OF ANY CASE TONIGHT, IT'LL BE ADJOURNED TO ANOTHER MEETING, HOPEFULLY TO BE COMPLETED AT THAT TIME.
ALSO, AS IS USUAL, TO SAVE TIME, WE WILL WAIVE A READING OF THE PROPERTY LOCATION AND THE RELIEF SOUGHT FOR EACH CASE.
HOWEVER, THE REPORTER WILL INSERT THIS INFORMATION IN THE RECORD.
THIS INFORMATION ALSO APPEARS IN THE AGENDA FOR TONIGHT'S MEETING.
AFTER THE PUBLIC HEARING OF TONIGHT'S CASES, THE BOARD WILL MEET IN THE CONFERENCE ROOM BEHIND US TO DISCUSS THE CASES WE HAVE HEARD TONIGHT.
EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO LISTEN TO OUR DELIBERATIONS AND JOIN US THERE.
HOWEVER, THE PUBLIC IS NOT PERMITTED TO SPEAK OR PARTICIPATE AT THAT TIME.
AFTER OUR DELIBERATIONS, WE COME BACK INTO THIS ROOM TO ANNOUNCE THE BOARD'S DECISION FOR THE FORMAL RECORD AND FOR IT TO BE BROADCAST TO THE COMMUNITY.
IF YOU'RE GOING TO SPEAK TONIGHT, YOU MUST COME UP TO THE MICROPHONE, CLEARLY STATE YOUR NAME AND YOUR ADDRESS, OR YOUR PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION.
IF YOU'RE NOT A NAMED APPLICANT, PLEASE SPELL YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD.
WE HAVE HEARD TESTIMONY ON SOME CASES AT PRIOR MEETING.
ALL PRIOR TESTIMONY IS ALREADY IN THE RECORD AND SHOULD NOT BE REPEATED.
TONIGHT'S FIRST CASE TO BE HEARD.
IT'S CASE 2111 PROPERTY AT 11 ROYAL, UH, LAUREL STREET, HARTSDALE.
GOOD EVENING, HONOR ROLL, MADAM CHAIR AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.
I AM COUNSEL, UH, FOR THE APPLICANT'S ON THIS MATTER'S, E B A CASE 21 DASH 21.
APPEARING WITH ME TONIGHT IS BARUS POR ONE OF THE FOUR APPLICANT OWNERS OF THE VACANT UNDEVELOPED LAUREL STREET LOT FOR WHICH AREA VARIANCE IS BEING REQUESTED AND NEMA BED OF BED ARCHITECTS.
THE ARCHITECT OF THE PROPOSED ONE FAMILY RESIDENCE PROPOSED TO BE BUILT ON THE LOT.
UM, THEY ARE EACH, UM, AMENABLE TO AND AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE AT ANY TIME DURING THIS HEARING.
THE APPLICANT OWNERS OF THE LAUREL STREET LOT ARE SIBLINGS AND THEIR RESPECTIVE WIVES.
THE PROPOSED ONE FAMILY RESIDENCE WILL BE THE PRIMARY RESIDENCE FOR ONE FAMILY.
THE LAUREL STREET LOT IS A 7.51 IS IN A 7.51 FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT.
ASSUMING THAT THIS LOT DOES NOT FIT WITHIN THE EXCEPTION OR EXEMPTION, EXCUSE ME, OF 2 85 DASH 40 C SIX, THEN THE AREA VARIANCES THAT ARE REQUIRED TO CONSTRUCT THE PROPOSED ONE FAMILY RESIDENCE ARE, UH, THOSE WHICH ARE WITHIN THE AGENDA, SPECIFICALLY SECTION 2 85 DASH 15 B ONE.
TO REDUCE THE MINIMUM LOT AREA FROM THE REQUIRED 75,000 SQUARE FEET TO THE EXISTING 5,281 SQUARE FEET FROM SECTION 2 85 DASH 15 B TWO TO REDUCE THE LOT WIDTH FROM THE REQUIRED 75 FEET TO THE EXISTING 50 FEET SECTION 2 85 DASH 15 B FOUR SIX TO REDUCE ONE SIDE YARD FROM THE REQUIRED 10 FEET TO EIGHT FEET, AND THE OTHER SIDE YARD FROM THE REQUIRED 12 FEET TO FOUR FEET.
AND BY VIRTUE OF THE, UH, NEED FOR THE SIDE YARD VARIANCES, THERE'S A NEED PURSUANT TO SECTION 2 85 DASH 12 B FOUR C TO REDUCE THE TOTAL TOTAL SIDE YARDS FROM THE REQUIRED 22 FEET TO THE PROPOSED 12 FEET.
ASSUMING WE DO MEET, THE APPLICANT DOES MEET THE 2 85 DASH 40 C SIX EXEMPTION, THEN THE ONLY VARIANCE THAT IS REQUIRED IS A 2.3 FOOT SIDE
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YARD ON THE SIDE THAT ABUTS THE MONTAGE PROPERTY AND CENTRAL AVENUE FOR WHICH THERE ARE NO NEIGHBORS.IN CONSIDERING THIS APPLICATION, AS THE BOARD IS WELL AWARE, PURSUANT TO TOWN LAW SECTION 2 87 DASH B THREE B, THE BOARD HAS TO WEIGH THE BENEFIT TO THE APPLICANT AGAINST THE DETRIMENT TO THE COMMUNITY WITH FACTORS SET FORTH FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION AND PARAPHRASING WHETHER THERE'LL BE AN UNDESIRABLE CHANGE IN THE CHARACTER OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD OR A DETRIMENT TO NEARBY PROPERTIES.
SECONDLY, WHETHER THE BENEFITS SOUGHT BY THE APPLICANT CAN BE ACHIEVED BY A FEASIBLE METHOD OTHER THAN AN AREA VARIANCE.
THIRDLY, WHETHER THE REQUESTED AREA VARIANCE IS SUBSTANTIAL.
FOURTH, WHETHER THE VARIANCE WILL HAVE AN ADVERSE EFFECT OR IMPACT ON THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD OR DISTRICT AND WHETHER THE DIFFICULTY GIVEN RISE AND FIFTHLY, WHETHER THE DIFFICULTY GIVEN RISE TO THE VARIANCE WAS SELF-CREATED.
UM, WHICH CONSIDERATION IS RELEVANT TO THE DECISION OF THE BOARD, BUT NOT NECESSARILY PRECLUDE THE GRANTING OF THE AREA VARIANCE UNDER THE TOWN LAW.
AND WITH REGARD TO ALL OF THESE FACTORS, YOU DON'T NEED TO MEET ALL OF THEM.
THEY'RE JUST TO BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION BY THE BOARD.
IN WEIGHING ITS DECISION, UM, BETWEEN THE APPLICANT AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY, THERE IS NO, UH, WE PROPOSE THAT THE GRANTING OF THE REQUESTED VARIANCE WILL NOT CREATE AN UNDESIRABLE CHANGE OR DETRIMENT TO THE NEARBY PROPERTIES.
THE LOT IS AN IRREGULAR SHAPED PROPERTY SITUATED AT THE INTERSECTION OF, UH, LAUREL STREET AND NORTH CENTRAL AVENUE AT 1 55 NORTH CENTRAL AVENUE, WHICH IS THE COMMERCIAL MONTAGE PROPERTY.
LAUREL STREETS ARE RELATIVELY SHORT, ONE WAY STRAIGHT IN OFF OF NORTH CENTRAL AVENUE, AND AFTER TWO HOMES, IT TAKES A 90 D DEGREE BEND TO NORTH WASHINGTON AVENUE, AND THEN YOU CAN EXIT BACK OUT ONTO, UH, NORTH CENTRAL AVENUE.
SO THE STREET IS A RELATIVELY, UH, SMALL ONE.
THE EASTERN SIDE OF THE LOT, UH, IS NORTH, WILL BE CENTRAL AVENUE.
UH, THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE LOT ACROSS THE STREET IS ANOTHER COMMERCIAL PROPERTY, WHICH IS WESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES.
THERE ARE NO RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES, UH, ACROSS THE STREET UNTIL YOU REACH THE FAR DIAGONAL CORNER AT THE 90 DEGREE BEND.
UM, AND THAT HOUSE IS UP ON A HILL AND NOT, UH, IMPACTED IN ANY WAY, UM, BY THIS DEVELOPMENT.
UM, AND INDEED NONE OF THE OTHER HOUSES, UM, ARE REALLY PROXIMATE TO THIS HOUSE OTHER THAN IN THE FAR REAR YARD.
AND SOME OF THEM ACTUALLY, UH, BOUGHT THE MONTAGE PROPERTY AND NOT THE REAR YARD OF THIS PROPERTY.
THE ADJACENT SEVEN LAUREL STREET PROPERTY, WHICH IS, UH, THE ONLY ADJACENT NEIGHBOR WOULD NOT BE NEGATIVELY IMPACTED AS THE SIDE YARD VARIANCE BETWEEN THE RESIDENCE AND OTHER HOME IS NOT SUBSTANTIAL.
THE REQUEST IS FOR THE REQUIREMENT IS FOR A 10 FOOT SIDE YARD.
AND THE WAY THE HOUSE IS BEING SITUATED ON THE PROPERTY, UH, THE VARIANCE REQUIRED IS ONLY TWO FEET IN THAT THERE'LL BE AN EIGHT FOOT, UH, DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SIDE YARD.
UM, ADDITIONALLY, THE SEVEN LAUREL STREET HOME, UM, THERE'S A FENCE BETWEEN THE PROPERTIES AND RIGHT NOW THERE ARE, UH, SOME TREES, SOME OF WHICH WILL NEED TO BE REMOVED OBVIOUSLY, BUT A LOT OF THE TREES ARE, UM, WHAT I WOULD CHARACTERIZE AS, UH, NOT MATURE TREES, OF COURSE.
UM, I'M NOT AS FAMILIAR WITH THE ZONING MORS AS, UM, THE TOWN OF GREENBURG IS.
AND THEY WILL ULTIMATELY DETERMINE, YOU KNOW, UM, IF, IF THERE ARE OR ARE NOT MATURE TREES.
BUT THERE ARE, THERE IS SOME SHRUBBERY, THERE IS A FENCE.
AND THEN THE LAUREL STREET PROPERTY IS ALSO BUFFERED FROM THIS HOUSE BY, UM, A GARAGE AND A DRIVEWAY.
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AND I BELIEVE I HAVE PHOTOS OF THAT ATTACHED, UM, TO THE APPLICATION.SO ESSENTIALLY THE WAY THIS, UH, HOUSE IS PROXIMATE LOCATED, IT'S BETWEEN TWO CUR COMMERCIAL AVENUE, TWO COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES WHEN VIEWED FROM, UM, CENTRAL AVENUE.
IT IS ACROSS FROM A COMMERCIAL PROPERTY AND NO RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES, AND THERE'S ONLY A ONE, UH, NEIGHBOR TO THE WEST SUB WEST SIDE.
SECONDLY, THIS LET'S GO TO NECESSITY AND NO ADVERSE CONSEQUENCES, UM, DIMINISHED THE SUBSTANTIALITY OF THE VARIANCE.
IT'S THE, I'M SORRY, EXCUSE ME.
UM, YOU'LL GO TO THE SECOND FACTOR, WHICH IS THAT THERE'S NO ACHIEVABLE ALTERNATIVE TO THE LOT IN AREA VARIANCES.
UM, THE LOT AND THE AREA OF THE SITE IS WHAT IT IS.
UM, AND THERE'S NOTHING THAT THE APPLICANT CAN, UH, DO ABOUT THAT.
AND, AND IT, IT IS ATTRIBUTABLE TO NO FAULT OF THE APPLICANT.
THE LOT IS UNDERSIZED IN LOT AREA AND WIDTH FOR A SEVEN, A RESIDENTIAL 7.51 FAMILY DISTRICT, BUT IS COMPARABLE TO THAT OF AN R FIVE.
ALSO, THERE IS A DEEDED THAT I PROVIDED, UM, TO THE BOARD, UH, DATING BACK TO 1951, WHICH IS A TOWN OF GREENBERG, UH, DEEDED TO, UH, RALPH CARRERA, WHICH BASICALLY SAID THAT THIS WAS A SITE THAT COULD MEET AND PROVIDE FOR RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT.
SO REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT'S AN UNDERSIZED LOT IN THE SEVEN DASH FIVE DISTRICT, IT WAS CONTEMPLATED BY THE TOWN OF GREENBURG AT THE TIME THAT THIS SITE COULD BE DEVELOPED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING.
UH, ADDITIONALLY, THE LOTS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD ARE ALSO, UH, NOT EQUIVALENT INSIDE AREA AND WIDTH TO A 7.5 DISTRICT.
IF YOU TAKE A LOOK AT, UH, ONE OF THE ZONING MAPS THAT, UM, I PROVIDED THE, UH, FRONTAGE OF MANY OF THE HOMES ARE THE SAME AS THE FRONTAGE THAT IS BEING PROPOSED HERE, WHICH IS 50 FEET.
AND ALTHOUGH SOME ARE MORE, THE GOOD MAJORITY OF THEM ARE ONLY 50 FEET IN WIDTH.
IN ADDITION, THERE ARE TWO OTHER HOMES UP AT THE 90 DEGREE TURN, WHICH FROM WHAT I READ FROM THE MAP, SEEMED TO BE ONLY 25 FEET.
SO AT SOME POINT, EITHER SOMEBODY DIVIDED THAT SUBDIVIDED THAT LOT OR IN SOME MANNER IT WAS ALLOWED TO BE 25 AND 25.
WHETHER THERE'S ONE HOUSE AUDIT OR NOT, I'M NOT SURE.
UM, UM, JUST BECAUSE A VARIANCE IS, UM, SUBSTANTIAL, UM, IT OR SEEMINGLY SUBSTANTIAL, UM, DOESN'T COMPEL, UH, THIS BOARD, UH, TO, UH, COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT IT IS DETRIMENTAL TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
UH, IN FACT, UM, THE ZONING CODE OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, UM, SPECIFICALLY ADDRESSES UNDERSIZED LOTS AND ALLOWS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF UNDERSIZED HOUSE MEETING CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS, UH, THE REQUESTED AREA IN VARIANCES.
UH, WITH REGARD TO FACTOR FOUR, UH, THERE IS NO ADVERSE EFFECT OR IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT, UM, THAT WE'RE AWARE OF.
UM, ASIDE FROM THE NEED TO CUT TREES, THERE ARE NO WATER, AIR HEALTH OR OTHER, UH, PROBLEMS THAT WOULD MAKE THIS SITE, UH, CONSIDERED ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE.
AND, UM, THE OWNERS OF THE LOT, IF GRANTED, UH, THE VARIANCES ARE AMENABLE TO RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TREE, EXCUSE ME, TREE REPLACEMENT, AND N A R BVT BUFFERS, THE NEED FOR THE VARIANCES, UH, WERE NOT SELF-CREATED.
UM, THE DIFFICULTY WHICH IS NECESSITATED THIS REQUEST FOR AN AREA VARIANCE, UM, IS ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE UNDERSIZED NATURE OF THE LOT AND THE COUPLED WITH THE IRREGULAR SHAPE OF THE LOT, UM, IT IS A VERY LONG LOT, UM, BUT YET IT IS, IT IS BUFFERED, UM, WHERE THE FOOT FOOT VARIANCE IS, UM,
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BEING PROPOSED BY A STRIP OF THE, THE MONTAGE PROPERTY, WHICH IS CERTAINLY NOT DEVELOPABLE, UH, DEVELOPABLE, AND IT THEN BUFFERS UP AGAINST, UM, NORTH CENTRAL AVENUE.SO THERE NEVER WILL BE ANY NEIGHBOR ON THE FOREFOOT SIDE.
UH, THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE TO THE APPLICANT, UM, OTHER THAN TO SEEK THE VARIANCES IS, IS TO BUILD NO HOME AT ALL.
UM, AND THAT CLEARLY, UM, WASN'T CONTEMPLATED, UM, BY THE, BY THE ZONING MAPS AND THE, UH, AND BY THE DEEDED THAT WAS GRANTED, UH, TO THE APPLICANTS.
UH, I HAD INDICATED THAT THIS, THIS LOT SHOULD ARGUABLY, UM, BE LIKENED MORE TO, UM, AN R DASH FIVE, UH, RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT.
AND BECAUSE IT DOESN'T MEET THE SEVEN DASH FIVE, BUT ARGUABLY WAS DEEMED BY THE TOWN OF GREENBURG TO BE A, A LOT DEVELOPABLE BY A SINGLE OR ONE FAMILY RESIDENCE.
IF ONE DOES A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE R DASH 7.5 DISTRICT AND AN R FIVE DISTRICT, YOU'LL SEE THAT, UM, THE LOT AREA IS EXCEEDED THAT THE FRONTAGE IS THE SAME, THAT THE ONE SIDE YARD OF EIGHT IS THE SAME AND THAT THE, UH, VARIANCE IS REQUIRED FOR THE SIDE YARD, UH, ADJACENT TO THE MONTAGE STRIP IN NORTH CENTRAL AVENUE.
OKAY, SO THE VARIANCES ARE NOT, ARE, ARE NOT, ARE, ARE NOT ADVERSE TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD THEY'RE IN KEEPING WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD, AND THEY'RE THOSE THAT ARE MINIMALLY REQUIRED TO BUILD, UM, A SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE ON THE PROPERTY.
NOW, I HAD INDICATED PREVIOUSLY IF THE BOARD SHOULD FIND, HOWEVER, THAT THIS PROPERTY MEETS THE EXEMPTION OF 2 85 DASH 40 C SIX, THEN DIFFERENT CALCULATIONS COME INTO PLAY AS TO WHAT IS REQUIRED, UH, FOR VARIANCES PRIOR TO THE BUILD FOR THE HOUSE THAT IS CURRENTLY PROPOSED.
AND, UH, THE STANDARD FOR THAT DETERMINATION IS, UH, IF THERE IS ANY VARIANCE REQUIRED, IS, UM, THAT YOU CAN DO IT ON THE GROUNDS OF PRACTICAL DIFFICULTIES AND UNNECESSARY, UH, HARDSHIP.
UM, TO NOT GRANT A 2.3 VARIANCE WOULD AN UNNECESSARY HARDSHIP, ESPECIALLY GIVEN LOCATION AND SITUATION OF THIS PROPERTY, OF THIS HOUSE ON THIS PROPERTY.
UH, THE APPLICANT HAS TAKEN GREAT PAINS IN DESI IN DESIGNING THE HOUSE TO SITUATE IT ON THE PROPERTY SUCH THAT IT MINIMIZES THE IMPACT TO THE SEVEN LAUREL STREET RESIDENCE AND MOVE IT FURTHER TO, UH, THE CENTRAL AVENUE, UH, SIDE.
I WANNA GO TO, UM, SOME OF THE CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE, UH, CALCULATION.
UH, AND, UM, CERTAINLY, UM, THE ARCHITECT COULD, UH, SPEAK, UH, BETTER TO THIS THAN I, I'M SURE, BUT THE CALCULATIONS ARE SET FORTH, UM, ON ONE OF THE MAPS THAT WERE PRESENTED TO THE BOARD, IT'S, UH, THE CALCULATIONS ARE ON A 0 0 2.
UM, AND IT BASICALLY, UM, SHOWS, YOU KNOW, THAT YOU ONLY NEED A 2.3 FOOT VARIANCE, BUT ESSENTIALLY, UM, HOW THIS WORKS IS THAT YOUR, IF INDEED, IF INDEED YOUR, YOUR LOT IS UNDERSIZED BY AREA AND WIDTH AND MEETS OTHER, UH, QUALIFY QUALIFICATIONS, WHICH WE CAN GO THROUGH, UH, IS THAT YOU CAN REDUCE THE SIDE LAR YARDS PROPORTIONATELY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RATIO WHICH THE ACTUAL WIDTH
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BEARS TO THE MINIMUM LOT WIDTH TO A MINIMUM, UM, OF EIGHT ON ONE SIDE AND FOUR, UH, UH, ON THE OTHER.THE RATIO HERE WAS CALCULATED BY, BY THE ARCHITECT AS BEING 64.7%, WHICH ALLOWS YOU TO REDUCE THE SIDE YARD OF 12 TO APPRO TO, I MEAN, THE EXACT NUMBER IS 7 7 6 0.4.
SO WE'RE WITHIN, UH, THE BOUNDS FOR THE ONE SIDE YARD AND A SIDE YARD, UM, OF 10 FOR THE OTHER SIDE.
UM, WHICH ONE MULTIPLIED BY THE 6.47 FACTOR GIVES YOU, UM, SIX, SIX, UH, FEET, THREE, UH, ON THE OTHER SIDE.
AND WE ARE PROPOSING FOUR, WHICH LEAVES ONLY 2.3 VARIANTS.
SO WE ARE WITHIN ALL THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS EXEMPTION.
BUT FOR THAT ONE SIDE YARD, WHICH IS, UM, WE WOULD REQUIRE YOUR BOARD TO GRANT A 2.3, UH, FOOT VARIANCE.
UM, WITH REGARD TO, UH, NEIGHBOR'S OBJECTIONS THAT, UM, WE'VE RECEIVED, AND, UM, I MAY NOT HAVE ALL OF 'EM.
UM, I BELIEVE WE HAVE ONE, SOME FROM SEVEN NUMBER SEVEN, NUMBER 43 AND NUMBER 46 LAUREL STREET.
THEY ESSENTIALLY FALL INTO FOUR C CATEGORIES.
THE SCALE OF THE RESIDENCE, THE HEIGHT OF THE RESIDENCE, TREE REMOVAL, AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENT, UM, OR VARIANCE CONCERNS IF THIS PROPOSED RESIDENCE WAS BUILT.
WITH REGARD TO THE SCALE, THE VARIANCE VARIANCES ARE WITHIN THE ZONING CODE EXEMPTION TO THE EXTENT THAT THE BOARD DEEMS THE ZONING COURT EXEMPTION, UM, TO NOT APPLY.
UM, THE HOUSE, UH, WITH IS CONSISTENT WITH THOSE, UH, IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND, AND, AND INDEED SOME, UM, THE DESIGN, THE DESIGN, UH, IN SCALE IS CONSISTENT WITH A STANDARD SIZE, UH, HOMES, HOME OR HOMES THAT ARE BUILT TODAY.
THIS IS NOT A MCMANSION, IT'S A TWO FAMILY HOME WITH A GARAGE UNDERNEATH THE GARAGE BEING REQUIRED UNDERNEATH BECAUSE THE SIDE YARDS DON'T ACCOMMODATE A DRIVEWAY AND, UH, A GARAGE.
SO THE GARAGE HAD TO BE BUILT UNDERNEATH THE HOUSE TO BUILD THE RESIDENCE.
ALSO, THE ARCHITECT COULD EXPLAIN THIS, UH, MR. BALI CAN EXPLAIN THIS BETTER THAN I, BUT HE DESIGNED THE HOUSE, UM, SUCH THAT IT HAS A HIP ROOF, WHICH MINIMIZES THE IMPACT OF THE HEIGHT GOING TO HEIGHT.
THE OBJECTION WAS AT THE HEIGHT, UH, LIMITATION IN THIS ZONING DISTRICT IS 30 FEET.
THIS HOUSE DOES NOT EXCEED TH THE 30 FEET, EXCUSE ME, UH, HEIGHT, EXTENSION, UH, LIMITATION.
UM, A 2.4 STORE RESIDENCE IS PERMITTED IN A R UH, 7.5 ZONE.
THE HEIGHT DOES NOT EXCEED THAT, WHICH IS PERMITTED FOR 2.5 STORY RESIDENCE.
AND THE HEIGHT IS NOT INCONSISTENT WITH THE TWO NEIGHBORING HOMES.
AND FOR THAT, I CAN, UH, DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO A COMPOSITE, WHICH WAS, UM, ON THE LAST PAGE OF THE SECOND SET OF DESIGNS THAT WERE SUBMITTED, UM, BY THE ARCHITECT.
AND THAT COMPOSITE, UM, SHOWS THAT, AND SORRY, IT'S A DASH 400 AND THAT COMPOSITE AT THE BOTTOM SHOWS, UH, THE RESIDENCE PROPOSED TO BE BUILT ALL THE WAY TO THE RIGHT, UM, AND COMPARES IT TO 47 LAUREL STREET AND, UH, 13 LAUREL STREET.
AND SHOWS THAT THEY'RE, UM, IN RELATIVE PROXIMITY AND HEIGHT.
AND HEIGHT DOES NOT TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION CHIMNEYS.
AND IT IS MEASURED BY, UH, A CALCULATION, UH, THAT'S DEFINED IN YOUR ZONING CODE.
UH, AGAIN, THERE ARE TREES THAT, UH, WILL, AS I INDICATED, SOME TREES WILL HAVE TO BE REMOVED, BUT, UM, WE'RE WILLING
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TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION, UM, THE, UH, RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE TOWN, UH, AND OR REQUIREMENTS OF THE TOWN ZONING ORNAMENTS AND TO, UM, TAKE WHATEVER, UH, BUFFER REQUIREMENTS ARE RECOMMENDED BY THE BOARD.UH, THERE WAS, UH, FUTURE DEVELOPMENT CONCERNS ALSO EXPRESSED.
UH, THE APPLICANT HAS NO PLANS TO SEEK ADDITIONAL VARIANCES, UH, FOR THIS RESIDENCE.
UH, WE'RE HERE NOW AND WE DON'T EXPECT TO COME BACK FURTHER FOR, FOR ANYTHING ELSE WITH REGARD TO MONTAGE PROPERTY.
THAT'S AN ENTIRELY SEPARATE PROPERTY, COMMERCIALLY ZONED.
UM, NOTHING CAN, UH, TRANSPIRE WITH REGARD TO THAT PROPERTY, TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT COMING BEFORE THIS, UH, BOARD, UH, AND POTENTIALLY OTHER BOARDS FOR APPROVAL.
UH, AND I WOULD OPEN IT UP FOR QUESTIONS AT THIS POINT.
IS THERE ANY, LET ME SEE IF THERE'S ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE WHO WANTED TO ADDRESS THIS THIS EVENING.
JUST FOR POINT OF CLARITY, AND IT MAY HAVE BEEN IN MS. B, UH, JUST NOW, DID YOU INDICATE THAT THIS IS GONNA BE A TWO FAMILY STRUCTURE? NO, I'M SORRY IF I SAID THAT THEN I DEFINITELY DID.
IT'S A ONE FAMILY SINGLE RESIDENCE I DID IN THE APPLICANTS ARE COMPRISED OF FOUR PEOPLE.
UM, TWO HUSBANDS, TWO WIVES, ONE SET, ONE HUSBAND, AND ONE WIFE IS GOING TO RESIDE IN THE RESIDENCE WITH THEIR FAMILY.
SO A ONE FAMILY RESIDENCE WITH ONE FAMILY RESIDING IN IT.
AND THEN THE NEXT QUESTION I WOULD HAVE, AND WE CAN ADDRESS THIS AFTER THE OTHER, UH, COMMENTS COME BEFORE US, YOU DID NOT DISCUSS WHAT THE F A R WOULD BE IN BOTH SCENARIOS THAT YOU KIND OF LAID OUT.
IF THIS EXEMPTION DID PLAY OUT, UM, HOW MANY SQUARE FEET IS THIS PARTICULAR HOME GOING TO BE? COULD YOU
IT'S JUST THAT THE ARCHITECT IS BETTER PREPARED FOR THIS THAN I AM.
UM, THE MINIMUM, UH, OF THE HOUSE ITSELF.
ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS WHILE WE'RE GETTING THAT INFORMATION? I HAVE A QUESTION.
UM, YOU HAD INDICATED WHEN YOU WERE SPEAKING THAT, UM, THE ONLY OTHER ALTERNATIVE IS TO NOT BUILD A HOME.
UM, YOU WOULDN'T CONSIDER MAKING ANY CHANGES.
WELL, THERE OTHER, THERE ARE, UM, OTHER NO,
UH, BUT I REALLY SHOULD OBJECT THAT MORE TO THE APPLICANT.
SO DID YOU HEAR THAT? PERUSE THAT QUESTION? ALL RIGHT.
I WOULD IT, THE ONLY INFORMATION THAT WE WERE HOPING YOU WOULD PROVIDE WOULD BE THE SQUARE FOOTAGE.
I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE INDIVIDUALS WHO'VE BEEN WAITING COME UP BECAUSE WE DO HAVE SEVERAL OTHER CASES WE MUST GET TO THIS EVENING.
THIS IS IT RIGHT HERE, ISN'T IT? THE FOOTPRINT OF THE BUILDING IS 1200.
I'M THE ARCHITECT FOR THE PROJECT.
THE FOOTPRINT OF THE BUILDING IS 1,219 SQUARE FEET.
SO THE TOTAL SQUARE FOOT OF THE BUILDING IS APPROXIMATELY DOUBLE THAT A LITTLE BIT LESS.
SO IT'S APPROXIMATELY 2,400 SQUARE FOOT HOUSE.
UM, AND THAT YOU CAN FIND THAT ON A DASH 0 0 2.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS BEFORE I ASK MEMBERS OF THE AUDIENCE TO COME UP? ALL RIGHT.
MY NAME IS JOANNE, J O A N N E I, MONACO, I A M AS IN MARY, O N AS IN NANCY, I C O.
I LIVE AT 43 LAUREL STREET, LITTLE SHORT STREET WITH 12 ADORABLE HOUSES.
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I AGREE THAT I, I WOULD CELEBRATE HAVING A HOUSE ON THAT LOT.THAT LOT HAS BEEN SINCE IT WAS SOLD.
AND IT STANDS RIGHT IN THE FRONT ENTRANCE TO A DELIGHTFUL 12 HOUSE COMMUNITY, A NEIGHBORHOOD.
IT AFFECTS EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE HOUSES.
THE ONLY WAY TO GET INTO LAUREL STREET IS OFF OF CENTRAL AVENUE.
SO SEVEN LAUREL STREET IS NOT THE ONLY ONE AFFECTED.
LAUREL STREET IS NOT THE ONLY ONE AFFECTED.
THERE ARE COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES THAT ABUTTED, BUT WE DO NOT COMPARE OUR HOUSES, OUR HOMES, OUR CHILDREN'S HOMES, OUR FAMILY'S HOMES TO COMMERCIAL PROPERTY.
LAUREL STREET IS A RESIDENTIAL AREA.
THE HOUSE THAT IS BEING BUILT, I WOULD ENJOY HAVING A HOUSE THERE.
AS I SAID, THE PROPERTY HAS BEEN UNKEPT FOR MANY, MANY YEARS.
AND IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THAT NOW.
SO A SMALLER HOUSE, ABSOLUTELY, WE WOULD'VE CELEBRATED IT.
NOW TO GO ON, AND I DO APOLOGIZE, I DON'T WANT TO TAKE UP A LOT OF TIME, BUT THIS IS MY HOME.
AND IT'S, WE HAVE TO DECIDE IF IT'S BENEFICIAL FOR THE OWNERS OF A PROPERTY OR WHAT DOES IT EFFECT ON THE NEIGHBORHOOD, ON INDIVIDUALS, ON THE COMMUNITY, ON THE TOWN.
THEY'RE ASKING FOR FOUR VARIANCES.
IF YOU LOOK AT THAT WONDERFUL PICTURE BEHIND YOU.
AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE HEIGHTS OF THOSE THREE HOUSES, PLEASE DO COMPARE THE HEIGHTS OF THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE COMPARING THAT THEIR HOUSE HEIGHT TO 13 LAUREL STREET.
AND THEY'RE, UH, THEY'RE COMPARING IT TO THE CHIMNEY OF THE HOUSE, NOT THE ROOF.
IF YOU LOOK AT SEVEN LAUREL STREET AND YOU LOOK AT, I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE NUMBER OF THAT ONE WOULD BE.
'CAUSE OUR NUMBERS ARE ALL FUNNY BECAUSE THE HOUSES WERE BUILT, YOU KNOW, THROUGHOUT THE YEARS.
BUT HE'S GOT A PEAK ON THAT HOUSE.
AND THAT PEAK IS NOT WHAT HE'S COMPARING THE HEIGHT OF HIS HOUSE TO.
THERE'S A BACK AND, OH, YOU KNOW WHAT? SEVEN LAUREL STREET IS NOT THE ONLY ONE THAT GETS, IS AFFECTED.
AS YOU GO DOWN THAT 90 DEGREE CURVE, THERE ARE HOUSES THAT ABUT ALL OF THAT PROPERTY.
AND THAT BIG HEIGHT OF THAT ROOF IS IN, I'M GOING TO SEE FROM MY BACKYARD.
THERE IS A STATEMENT HERE THAT SAYS, YOU KNOW, AS YOU GO DOWN CENTRAL AVENUE, ALL YOU SEE IS COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS.
AND THIS WILL BE A RESIDENTIAL BUILDING.
YES, IT WILL BE A RESIDENTIAL BUILDING.
BUT UNFORTUNATELY, IF YOU GO SOUTH ON CENTRAL AVENUE, HEADING TOWARDS YONKERS EVERY, YOU DO NOT SEE ANYTHING NEAR CENTRAL AVENUE RESIDENTIAL.
SO THE ONLY THING YOU'LL SEE IF YOU START ON WHITE PLAINS FROM WHITE PLAINS BORDER AND GO SOUTH, THE ONLY THING YOU WILL COME UP AGAINST IS THIS PARTICULAR HOUSE.
AND IT IS ON A PROPERTY THAT NEEDS TO HAVE VARIANCES FOR THEM TO BUILD IT.
IT IS TOO BIG FOR THE PROPERTY.
AND WHEN ASKED TONIGHT, IF THEY WOULD CHANGE IT AND MODIFY IT, THAT'S NOT AN OPTION FOR THEM.
WE KNOW WHAT THE REGULATIONS COULD BE.
I'VE LIVED ON CENTRAL AVENUE ALL MY LIFE.
I'VE ALWAYS BACKED UP ON CENTRAL AVENUE.
WHEN I BOUGHT THIS HOUSE, I DID SOME INVESTIGATION.
THERE ARE LAWS AND, AND, AND REQUIREMENTS THAT NEED TO BE CONSIDERED OF ALL COMMUNITY MEMBERS.
EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US THAT OPTS TO BUY A HOUSE.
SO WHEN SOMEBODY WANTS TO BUY A HOU, BUILD A HOUSE, BRAVO.
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WE HAVE TO BE RESPECTFUL OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD.THIS HOUSE WILL BE THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING.
AS YOU COME DOWN CENTRAL AVENUE.
EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US THAT WALKS OUR DOGS, DRIVES OUR CARS.
'CAUSE WE HAVE TO COME IN THE ONE WAY WE'RE PASSING THAT.
AND AS FAR AS THE FACT THAT IT'S ONLY A GARAGE UNDERNEATH ONE OF THE PLANS ACTUALLY HAS A FULL BATHROOM DOWNSTAIRS.
YOU DON'T NEED A FULL BATHROOM IN A GARAGE.
UM, THEY SAY THAT THEY DO NOT HAVE ANY ALTERNATIVES.
THEY SAY THAT THIS IS A HARDSHIP.
I WISH I COULD TELL YOU THAT THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'VE BEEN UP WITH CONCERNS.
THERE HAVE BEEN MANY REQUESTS FOR VARIANCES FROM THIS PARTICULAR COMPANY.
THEY HAVE ALWAYS CLAIMED HARDSHIP.
I'M NOT GOING TO COME TO YOU AND TELL YOU WHEN I, WHEN I WIDENED MY DRIVEWAY AND HOW TO DO IT A SPECIFIC WAY TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE TOWN.
WAS IT A HARDSHIP? OKAY, MAYBE A LITTLE, BUT I'M NOT GONNA COME TO YOU.
I WAS THE ONE THAT MADE THE DECISION.
I'M NOT GOING TO ASK THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
I'M NOT GOING TO ASK A COMMUNITY.
I'M NOT GONNA ASK THE TOWN TO PAY FOR MY POOR DECISIONS THAT BUILT THAT.
NOBODY TWISTED THIS COMPANY'S HAND IN BUYING THIS PROPERTY.
AND WE HAVE TO STOP PAYING FOR THEIR POOR BUSINESS SENSE.
AGAIN, I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH A HOUSE THAT IS GOING TO ENHANCE MY NEIGHBORHOOD.
I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH A HOUSE THAT IS GOING TO BE, BE BUILT ON THAT PROPERTY, BUT BE BUILT TO THE SIZE WITH MAYBE ONE VARIANCE.
UM, THE OTHER THING, TWO, ONE OTHER THING.
WE HAD A TERRIBLE RAINSTORMS. WE'VE HAD SEVERAL OF THEM.
IF YOU LIVE ON CENTRAL AVENUE, IF YOU GO DOWN CENTRAL AVENUE, NOW YOU KNOW THAT THERE WAS MASSIVE FLOODING OF CENTRAL AVENUE AND THEY ARE STILL WORKING TO REPAIR IT.
WELL, OUR SIDE WAS NOT AFFECTED.
BUT I WILL TELL YOU THAT WHEN YOU'RE BORN AND RAISED HERE, AND YOU KNOW THE PONDS THAT WERE IN MARSHALLS, WHEN YOU KNOW THE WETLANDS THAT WERE IN THE CLASSIC, AND YOU START TO SEE THE TREES AND EV ALL OF THESE BEING CUT DOWN, YOU HAVE TO START TO REALIZE THAT WE NEED TO BE CAREFUL OF WHAT WE'RE BUILDING.
AND WHAT YOU'RE SEEING ON CENTRAL AVENUE IS GOING TO CONTINUE.
AND THROUGH THE YEARS, AND I'VE BEEN HERE A LONG TIME, IT IS GETTING WORSE AND WORSE AND WORSE.
WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO THE WHOLE COMMUNITY.
SO TO SAY THAT IT IS JUST IMMATURE TREES, IT'S NOT ONLY IMMATURE TREES.
YOU NEED TO GO AND YOU NEED TO LOOK AT THIS PROPERTY.
YOU NEED, I WOULD REQUEST THAT YOU ACTUALLY, 'CAUSE WE KEEP TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE THIS HOUSE IS GOING TO FIT.
I WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOU GO AND MARK IT SO THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY SEE HOW THIS IS GOING TO FIT.
UM, AND THEN LASTLY, PEOPLE CAME INTO GREENBURG.
THAT'S NOT WHAT DRAWS PEOPLE TO A COMMUNITY, TO THE SUBURBS.
AND WE HAVE A RIGHT TO HAVE THAT ENVIRONMENT THAT WE'VE ALL BOUGHT ON, WHETHER IT'S 12 LITTLE HOUSES, 15 LITTLE HOUSES.
WE NEED TO DETERMINE WHAT IS THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN GREENBURG OR ARE, ARE WE JUST GOING TO BE A A, UM, UM, ANOTHER SECTION OF BOROUGHS.
WE DON'T, WE DON'T HAVE HOUSES ON TOP OF EACH OTHER.
UM, THE OTHER QUESTION THAT MY OTHER CONCERN QUITE FRANKLY IS THAT IF THIS VARIANCE IS, IS APPROVED, WHAT I HAVE, IF, IF ANOTHER HOUSE ON MY BLOCK GOES FOR SALE AND SOMEBODY COMES IN AND SAYS, HMM, NOW TOO SMALL.
YOU NOW WE NOW HAVE AN A, A PRECEDENT THAT SAYS, I CAN BILL AND I DON'T CARE.
AND I CAME, UH, BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT THE FIRST ONE ON, ON LAUREL STREET.
SO YOU CAN'T TELL ME NO, I'VE INVESTED IN THIS COMMUNITY.
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I'VE INVESTED IN MY HOUSE.AND ALL OF THE HOUSES, WHETHER THEY'RE LOT SIZES, ARE QUIRKY DIFFERENT.
IF YOU WALK DOWN LAUREL STREET, IT'S A VERY SWEET, UM, NEIGHBORHOOD.
BUT WE DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE THESE MASSIVE BUILDINGS THAT DESTROY THE ENVIRONMENT, THAT DESTROY OUR LITTLE AREA.
SO I URGE YOU, PLEASE TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION, THESE ARE PEOPLE'S HOMES.
WE WOULD ALL, WE'LL ALL APPLAUD, TRUST ME.
BUT WE WANT TO ENHANCE OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
K A T H Y R U S SS O I PRESIDE AT SEVEN LAUREL STREET.
UM, AGAIN, AS MY NEIGHBOR HAS SAID, WE'RE NOT OPPOSED TO THIS PROPERTY BEING DEVELOPED.
I'VE KNOWN ALL ALONG MY, THE PROPERTY BELONGED TO MY HUSBAND'S FAMILY.
THEY RAN RALPH'S NURSERY THERE.
I LIVED ON THAT PROPERTY BEFORE WE BOUGHT THE HOUSE AT SEVEN LAUREL STREET.
HIS GRANDFATHER OWNED ALL OF THIS PROPERTY.
OUR BIG PROBLEM WITH THIS PROPERTY IS JUST SOME FACTS.
THE HOUSE THAT THEY'RE PROPOSING WILL TAKE UP MORE THAN 50% OF THAT LOT.
THEY'RE ASKING FOR A 30% REDUCTION OF THE TOWN'S REQUIREMENTS.
THE LOT, I'M SORRY, IS UNDERSIZED BY 2300 SQUARE FEET TO, TO ACCOMMODATE THAT SIZE OF A HOUSE.
IT IS ALMOST 900 SQUARE FEET BIGGER THAN MY HOUSE.
IT WILL TOWER OVER MY HOUSE NO MATTER WHAT THEY SAY ON THESE, THESE DRAWINGS.
IT WILL APPROXIMATELY GO INTO THE BACKYARD, ANOTHER 15 FEET PAST THE BACK OF MY HOUSE AS THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT IT NOT AFFECTING US.
AND MY GARAGE IS A BUFFER ZONE THAT IS NOT A GARAGE.
IT'S BEEN A LEGAL ROOM, FAMILY ROOM TO OUR HOUSE FOR 27 YEARS.
LEGAL, I WILL SAY WE HAVE THE DRIVEWAY IN BETWEEN US.
WE HAVE A FENCE, YES, GOING DOWN THE LOT, BUT IF YOU EVER COME LOOK AT MY FENCE, IT IS HELD TOGETHER BY BLACK AND BLUE WIRES BECAUSE OF ALL THE TREES THAT HAVE COME DOWN OVER THE YEARS.
WE'VE BEEN ON MANY PHONE CALLS WHERE I'VE HAD SO MANY NUMEROUS TREES COME OVER.
MY CARS, MY POOL, MY BACKYARD, MY DRIVEWAY, MY FENCE IS HELD TOGETHER.
'CAUSE THAT'S THAT PIECE OF PROPERTY, THE WAY THEY'RE SHOWING THE PICTURE THERE, THAT'S NEVER LOOKED LIKE THAT.
OTHER THAN THAT ONE TIME MOVING ON THE HOUSE IS MUCH BIGGER THAN OURS.
I, I DO OPPOSE THE REDUCTION OF TWO FEET BECAUSE ON TOP OF THAT FENCE, WITHIN SEVEN POINT WHATEVER FEET THEY HAVE SAID IT'S GONNA BE ANOTHER HOUSE RIGHT ON TOP OF ME.
I'VE BEEN IN THAT HOUSE FOR 36 YEARS.
I'VE ALWAYS KNOWN AND WE'VE ALWAYS KNOWN WHEN THE PROPERTY WAS SOLD, THAT WAS A RESIDENTIAL LOT.
LIKE I SAID, WE'RE NOT OPPOSED TO THAT AT ALL.
BUT TO BE SQUEEZING OR IS MY ONE WORD I KEPT USING FOR THE PAST EIGHT MONTHS IS THEY'RE SANDWICHING THAT HOUSE INTO THAT LOT.
THAT HOUSE DOES NOT FIT ON THAT LOT.
YOU WANNA, I HAVE TOLD THE OWNERS, YOU WANNA PUT ANOTHER HOUSE THERE, MAKE IT ADEQUATELY FIT THE PIECE OF PROPERTY YOU HAVE NOT HAVE A HOUSE THAT'S GONNA BE RIGHT ON TOP OF ME.
DOUBLE THE SIZE OF MINE ALMOST, OR 900 SQUARE FEET, NOT TOWERING OVER MY HOUSE.
I WILL NO LONGER BE ABLE TO SEE CENTRAL AVENUE.
THEY TALK ABOUT IN THEIR LETTER, TAKING DOWN FOUR OR FIVE TREES.
THERE ARE AT LEAST 12 TO 15 MATURE TREES, MATURE TREES THAT HAVE BEEN NEGLECTED OVER THE YEARS IN THAT LOT THAT WILL HAVE TO COME DOWN.
PLUS NUMEROUS OTHER SAPLINGS ALL ALONG MY PROPERTY LINE ACROSS THE FRONT OF LAUREL STREET AND ON THE CORNER OF WHERE THE BUS STOP IS RIGHT THERE.
ALL OF THAT WILL HAVE TO COME DOWN AND ORDER TO GET MACHINES IN THERE TO BUILD THAT KIND OF HOUSE.
I TOLD THEM, YOU WANT A HOUSE THERE, THAT'S FINE.
MAKE IT FIT THE, THE LOT AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
NOT WHAT THEY'RE PROPOSING TO PUT THERE.
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WHAT ELSE WE GOT HERE? THEY KNEW WHEN THEY BOUGHT THIS PROPERTY, THEY SAID IT'S A HARDSHIP.THEY BROUGHT THIS PROPERTY FROM MY HUSBAND'S FAMILY.
THEY KNEW WHAT THE PROPERTY LOOKED LIKE AT THE TIME.
THEY KNOW WHAT THEY BOUGHT AT THE TIME.
THEY'VE DECIDED AFTER ALL THESE YEARS, AND I'M GONNA SAY THIS, BECAUSE OF THE BLOOMING HOUSING ECONOMY, IT'S TIME TO BUILD A NICE BIG HOUSE THERE.
BUT NOT AT MY EXPENSE, NOT AT MY NEIGHBOR'S EXPENSE, NOT AT OUR 12 NEIGHBORHOOD EXPENSE THAT THIS SHOULD BE ALLOWED.
IF YOU START DOING THIS AND YOU GRANT THESE EXEMPTIONS AND THESE VARIANCES, YOU ARE GONNA DO DAMAGE TO OUR HOUSE VALUES, OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
A REQUEST THAT YOU ASK THEM TO MAKE SOME CHANGES.
I TOLD THEM, I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THIS, MAKE CHANGES, BUT THIS IS WHAT THEY'VE COME UP WITH.
THEY'VE DECIDED TO DO A NEW SURVEY, WHICH THEY DID NOT ASK US ABOUT IF THEY COULD COME ON OUR PROPERTY EITHER UNTIL WE WENT OUT AND SAID, WHAT ARE YOU DOING OUT HERE? THE SURVEYORS, OH, THEY'VE ASKED US.
WE WERE NEVER SAID THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR TO US, THEY JUST WENT ON THEIR PROPERTY AND SURVEYED AND DO WHATEVER THEY WANNA DO.
THE SURVEYORS, THEY NEVER ASKED FOR PERMISSION TO COME ON UNTIL I WENT OUTSIDE AND SAID, WHAT ARE YOU DOING OVER SURVEILLING AND ELEVATION AND ALL THAT? THIS WAS AFTER I COMPLAINED ABOUT THE ELEVATION OF THE HOUSE.
THIS WAS THEIR RESOLVE OF SAYING THEY WERE GONNA TALK TO THE ARCHITECTURE AND TRY AND RESOLVE THIS.
THEY DIDN'T TALK TO THE ARCHITECTURE ABOUT RESOLVING ANYTHING.
THEY JUST WANNA SHOW WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE.
IT IS GOING A TOWER AS TO THE PLANS.
I TOOK IT TO ANOTHER ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECT, I'M SORRY.
AND THEY SAID PUTTING A FULL BATHROOM BEHIND THE GARAGE.
THEY HAVE THE GARAGE, THEY HAVE AN EMPTY SPACE, THEY HAVE A FULL BATHROOM BEHIND THE GARAGE AND THEN ANOTHER LARGE SPACE.
AT WHAT POINT DO THEY DECIDE TO MAKE THAT INTO A THIRD FLOOR? UH, LEGALLY IT'S, YOU HAVE A FULL BATHROOM DOWN THERE TO ME AND TO THE OTHER PEOPLE ARCHITECT.
THAT'S CONSIDERED A THREE STORY HOUSE, NOT A TWO STORY.
NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU DECIDE THAT YOU WANNA BURY PART OF IT INTO THE, INTO THE GROUND IN THE BACKYARD, IT DOESN'T FIT THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
I DON'T HAVE A BUFFER ZONE AGAINST FROM THIS HOUSE.
ONCE THEY TAKE DOWN ALL THOSE TREES THAT WILL HAVE TO COME DOWN ON MY PROPERTY LINE, 'CAUSE THEY'RE EITHER DAMAGED, THEY'RE TOO BIG, THERE'S NO WAY TO GET IN THERE WITHOUT TAKING THEM DOWN.
WE ARE GOING TO HAVE NO PRIVACY ANYMORE.
AND THEY SAID, OH, WELL WE'LL PUT UP A WHOLE NEW FENCE FOR YOU.
WE'LL PUT UP SOME SCREENING FOR YOU.
OUR PROPERTY DOES DIP DOWN, SO EVEN WHAT SCREENING THEY'RE GONNA PUT IN IS NOT GONNA GIVE ME THE PRIVACY I'VE HAD.
THEY DON'T TAKE CARE OF WHAT THEY HAD BEFORE.
IF YOU COME DOWN CENTRAL AVENUE AND YOU DRIVE DOWN LAUREL STREET RIGHT NOW, THAT PROPERTY IS A DISASTER ON THE CORNER THERE, ESPECIALLY ON THE LAUREL STREET.
THEY MAKE IT LOOK NICE TILL THEY CUT THE GRASS DOWN MONTAGE TILL A PORTION, YOU GET TO THAT BUS STOP AND IT IS A DISASTER FROM THE BUS STOP TO THE LAUREL STREET LINE.
NOW, OF COURSE I'D LIKE TO HAVE A HOUSE THERE THAT WOULD MAKE MY NEIGHBORHOOD LOOK BETTER, BUT NOT THAT HOUSE.
THEY'VE TRIED DIFFERENT WAYS TO COME AROUND THIS.
WE'VE HAD ALL KINDS OF, YOU KNOW, CONTINUATIONS.
I NEED TO KNOW IF MY HOUSE IS GONNA BE TOWERED OVER BY THIS HOUSE.
AND I ASK YOU, PLEASE DO NOT GRANT THESE VARIANCES.
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY BOUGHT THE DAY THEY BOUGHT ALL THAT PROPERTY APPROXIMATELY 27 YEARS AGO FROM MY HUSBAND'S FAMILY.
BECAUSE OF THE TIME CONSTRAINTS WE HAVE.
WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO MOVE ON TO THE NEXT CASE THIS EVENING BECAUSE WE HAVE SEVEN OTHER CASES.
MY NAME IS ROBERT YA MONACO, I A M O N I C L 43 LAUREL STREET.
REAL QUICK, I JUST WANT THE BOARD TO REALIZE THAT THAT DRAWING BEHIND YOU IS NOT EXACTLY TO SCALE THE ELEVATION FOR SOMEONE ON THE REASON ON THE RIGHT SIDE WHERE THE HOUSE IS BEING PROPOSED, THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE LAND DOES NOT GO LIKE THAT.
WHERE IT SLOPES DOWN, IT'S A LEVEL PIECE OF GROUND.
SO IF YOU PUT THAT HOUSE UP A LITTLE BIT HIGHER OF WHERE IT'S SHOWING IN THAT PICTURE, IT'S A LOT HIGHER THAN ANY OTHER HOUSE IN THE AREA.
I WOULD ASK THE BOARD, THEY DON'T KNOW THE LOT, PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT IT, HAVE 'EM STAKE OUT THE PIECE OF PROPERTY, THE PROPOSED HOUSE, AND HAVE 'EM MARK THE FOUR TREES THAT THEY'RE GONNA TAKE DOWN.
WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO MOVE ON TO THE NEXT CASE TONIGHT.
I I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THAT TIME.
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MADAM CHAIR, EXCEPT THE ARCHITECT WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS SOME OF THOSE, UH, ISSUES THAT WERE RAISED.THE ONLY ISSUE THAT I RECALL THAT WE WANTED TO HAVE THE ARCHITECT ADDRESS, OR AT LEAST WAS HE WAS ASKED, AS FAR AS I KNOW, WAS THE, UH, SQUARE FOOTAGE OF THE HOUSE, WHICH I BELIEVE YOU SUPPLIED.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT OTHER I'M, YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO RESPOND TO WHAT YOU'VE HEARD, BUT NOT AT THIS MOMENT.
IF WE CAN GET THROUGH THE OTHER CASES QUICKLY, WE'LL BE GLAD TO, UH, HAVE YOU CONTINUE.
I APPRECIATE, I APPRECIATE YOUR PREDICAMENT.
I SEE A HAND IN THE BACK, BUT, UM, I, I HAD ASKED BEFORE, MA'AM, AND I BELIEVE YOU'RE ON CASE, SHE'S NUMBER 8, 21, 27.
UH, WHETHER OR NOT THE INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE BEFORE YOU WERE PREPARED TO ALLOW YOU TO GO PAST THEM, AND I DON'T, I DIDN'T SEE THAT THEY WERE, SO THAT'S WHY I'M TRYING TO MOVE ON TO GET TO YOU AS FAST AS I CAN.
UH, JUST LIKE THE WE'RE NOT YOU'RE NOT ON THE RECORD, SIR.
JUST WANTED YOU'RE NOT ON THE RECORD, MA'AM.
THE NEXT CASE ON TONIGHT'S AGENDA IS CASE 2120 BA UH, LEASING B S C L L C.
THE GOOD EVENING CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.
I'M AN ASSOCIATE AT DELBELLO DUNNELL AND WEINGART AND WE AND WHITAKER.
I'M HERE TONIGHT ON CASES 2120 AND 2121, UH, WHICH ARE BOTH SUBSIDIARIES OF REGENERON.
IN JULY, WE, UH, PRESENTED, UM, ALL OF THE PLANS.
UH, YOU WERE PRECLUDED FROM ACTING THAT EVENING BECAUSE CCRA HAD NOT BEEN COMPLETED.
THE TOWN BOARD HAS SINCE ADOPTED NEGATIVE DECLARATIONS FOR THE PROPERTIES AND THE PROJECTS.
SO, UH, YOU, WE RESPECTFULLY, UH, REQUEST THAT YOU, UH, CONSIDER GRANTING THE VARIANCES THIS EVENING.
UH, THE PROJECT TEAM IS HERE WITH ME.
IF YOU HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS, UH, FROM THE JULY MEETING.
UM, LET ME ASK THE BOARD MEMBERS, DO WE HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS? NO, NOT THIS TIME.
IS THERE ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE WHO WANTED TO ADDRESS EITHER OF THESE CASES? 2120 OR 2121? NOPE.
UM, COULD YOU SPEAK UP JUST A LITTLE? MAYBE RAISE THE MICROPHONE UP.
HOW ABOUT NOW? IS THAT BETTER? OKAY.
UM, I AM LOOKING TO JUST DO A DORMER FOR MY, UH, HALF BATHROOM ON THE SECOND FLOOR OF MY HOME.
UM, PUT THE PICTURES, IT, SO UNFORTUNATELY MY ARCHITECT WAS, HAD SOMETHING COME UP TONIGHT AND WAS UNABLE TO ATTEND THE MEETING.
UM, BUT REALLY WANTED TO EMPHASIZE THAT I'M NOT EXTENDING THE BUILDING FOOTPRINT AND THE DORMERS BEING BUILT OVER THE EXISTING FIRST FLOOR WALL.
UM, AS YOU CAN SEE, THE EX THE BATHROOM RIGHT NOW IS VERY SMALL.
CAN YOU SHOW THE PICTURES YOU WANT THE PHOTOS? ABSOLUTELY.
SO YEAH, SO THAT'S THE ENTRANCE.
UH, AND IF YOU CAN KEEP GOING, SORRY.
SO THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, SO IT'S, YEP.
AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE THIRD AND FOURTH, SO HERE YOU CAN SEE THE BAT, THE TOILET AND THE SINK AT THE SINK.
IF YOU'RE GONNA STAND AT THE SINK, UM, THE HEIGHT THERE AT ITS HIGHEST POINT IS ONLY FIVE FEET.
MY MOM'S, EVERYBODY'S VERY TALL.
IT'S VERY DIFFICULT WHERE YOU HAVE TO JUST BACK IN, WALK IN THERE.
SO IT'S VERY, IT'S VERY HARD TO, TO MANAGE THAT BATHROOM.
I MEAN, IT'S REALLY JUST A CLOSET.
AND THEN RECENTLY I'VE BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH, UM, CHRONIC MIGRAINES WHERE IT'S DEPO DEBILITATING.
I WAS IN THE HOSPITAL FOR EIGHT DAYS.
UM, AND EVEN TODAY I'VE HAD THE SAME HEADACHE SINCE FRIDAY.
AND IT'S VERY COMMON FOR ME THAT, YOU KNOW, WHEN I WALK OUTTA MY BEDROOM I CAN ONLY GO.
BUT SO FAR, 'CAUSE I'M VERY DIZZY AND, AND VERY OUT OF IT AND I'VE OFTEN HIT MY HEAD ON, ON THE WALL THERE.
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SO WHAT I'M REALLY LOOKING TO DO IS JUST RAISE UP THE ROOF.UM, AND NOT, I'M NOT LOOKING TO ADD, PUSH OUT ANYTHING ON TO, YOU KNOW, THE SIDE OF THE HOUSE OR, YOU KNOW, THE SIDE YARD OR NOTHING TO MY NEIGHBOR.
I JUST REALLY JUST WANNA PUSH UP THE ROOF SO I HAVE THAT EXTRA SPACE.
AND, UM, JUST HAVE A FULL BATHROOM WHERE I CAN ALSO HAVE A, A SHOWER AND I CAN SIT DOWN AND HAVE THE WATER, UH, JUST COME DOWN ON MY HEAD TO KIND OF GIMME A, A HEAD MASSAGE AND GIMME A LITTLE BIT OF RELIEF.
UM, BUT IT'S JUST, IT'S VERY DIFFICULT, YOU KNOW, IT'S ALMOST LIKE A DOLLHOUSE BATHROOM, UNFORTUNATELY.
HOW OLD IS THE HOUSE? IT WAS MADE IN THE FIFTIES.
UM, SO, AND IT'S NON-CONFORMING ACCORDING TO, UM, THE, UM, INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE, CORRECT? I, I SUPPOSE.
SO THAT
UM, THAT'S REALLY ALL I WANNA DO.
IT'S, AGAIN, IT'S GONNA BE JUST, YOU KNOW, THE BACK WALL IS GONNA BE ON THE EXISTING WALL OF THE HOUSE, SO REALLY NOTHING IS, IS CHANGING.
AND MY INTENT WASN'T TO REALLY CHANGE ANYTHING, BUT JUST TO LIFT UP THE ROOF AND USE THE SP I HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF EXTRA SPACE BEHIND WHERE THE BATH WALL IS, WHERE THE TOILET IS, AND JUST USE THAT LITTLE BIT OF SPACE TO PUT THE SHOWER.
IS THERE ANOTHER BATHROOM IN THE HOUSE? THERE'S A BATHROOM ON THE FIRST FLOOR THAT, UM, HAS A TUB.
AND OTHER, AND OTHER THAN THE BATHROOM ON THE SECOND FLOOR, WHAT ELSE IS THERE? I HAVE A SITTING ROOM, SO I JUST HAVE LIKE A, LIKE A LARGE, WHEN YOU WALK UP THE STAIRS, THERE'S A LARGE SPACE.
UM, I HAVE A LAUNDRY CLOSET, SO SAME CONCEPT OF THAT.
UM, WHERE MY LAUNDRY, YOU KNOW, MY TWO WASHER AND MY WASHER AND DRYER IS, BUT IT LOOKS THE SAME.
THE, I DO KNOW THAT THE HOUSE, UH, DID HAVE, OH, SORRY.
THERE WAS A FIRE IN LIKE 1987 ISH OR SO.
UM, SO I DO KNOW THAT ONE SIDE OF IT WAS DORMED OUT.
UM, BUT THAT'S THE OPPOSITE SIDE THAT YOU COULD SEE IS LIFTED UP.
THE SIDE THAT IS NOT DORMER IS WHERE I JUST WANNA PUT, JUST RAISE THE ROOF A LITTLE BIT.
JUST THE LITTLE SPACE JUST TO RAISE IT UP.
UM, ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD? I HAD TO GET A NEW FURNACE AND THEY, MY H V A C PERSON TOLD ME THAT, YOU KNOW, FOR CODE REASON, THEY HAVE TO TAKE OUT THE CHIMNEY, WHICH IS FINE, BUT THAT WON'T BE THERE EITHER, IF THAT MAKES ANY DIFFERENCE, YOU KNOW.
ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD? ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE AUDIENCE? OKAY.
THE NEXT CASE ON TONIGHT'S AGENDA IS CASE 2123 PROPERTY AT 38 SPRING VALLEY ROAD.
UH, MY NAME IS NICHOLAS SHARIA WITH HUDSON ENGINEERING.
CAN I TAKE THE MASK DOWN OR, OKAY.
UM, I'M HERE REPRESENTING, UM, MRS. PUJA COLEY OF 38 SPRAIN VALLEY ROAD.
UM, WE ARE SEEKING A VARIANCE FOR A, UH, DRIVEWAY LEGALIZATION, A PORTION OF A DRIVEWAY LEGALIZATION.
UM, THERE'S, IT'S AN EXISTING DRIVEWAY WITH AN LEGAL PORTION.
SO THE VARIANCE WE'RE SEEKING IS TO, UH, KEEP THAT PORTION OF THE DRIVEWAY.
THAT'S HATCH THE HATCH PORTION THERE.
UM, THE SETBACK REQUIRED IS 16 FEET.
UH, RIGHT NOW THE EXISTING PORTION IS ABOUT 3.68 FEET, UM, FROM, I'M SORRY, IT'S ABOUT 12.
IT'S 3.68 FEET FROM THE PROPERTY LINE.
BUT THE SETBACK REQUIRED IS 16
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FEET.SO THERE'S DIFFERENCE OF 12 FEET THAT WE'RE REQUESTING A VARIANCE FOR.
UM, SO THE, UH, THE VARIANCE WE'RE SEEKING WILL NOT HAVE AN UNDESIRABLE CHANGE.
UM, THE BENEFITS, SO BY THE CLIENT IS KEEP THE SECTION OF THE DRIVEWAY ENCROACHES.
UH, THE, THE CLIENTS HAVE A, UH, THREE CAR GARAGE AS YOU, SORRY, IT'S A LITTLE HARD TO SHOW.
CAN I JUST, CAN I BRING THIS UP? IS THAT POSSIBLE? SHOW YOU GUYS OKAY.
IF THERE'S A DIFFERENT PART OF THE DRAWING YOU WANT ME TO HAVE ON THE SCREEN.
JUST MAKE SURE IT'S ENLARGED SO I SEE IT.
BACK TO THAT SAME VIEW, JUST MAKE SURE IT'S ENLARGED OR, UH, YES TO THE RIGHT.
COULD YOU ZOOM IN? YEP, ZOOM IN? YEAH, SURE.
SO THE EXISTING HOUSE HAS A THREE CAR GARAGE, UH, IN THAT AREA THAT YOU SHOWED WITH THE GRAY PORTION, UH, THAT IS THE EXISTING LEGAL PORTION OF THE DRIVEWAY.
UM, THE CLIENTS HAVE VERY, IT'S VERY DIFFICULT FOR THEM TO BACK OUTTA THE DRIVEWAY.
'CAUSE IN THAT SECTION IT'S ACTUALLY ABOUT 15 FEET FROM THE, THE GARAGE ENTRANCE TO THE APPROVED DRIVEWAY CURB.
AND TO THAT BACK PORTION BY THE STEPS, THAT'S ABOUT 20 FEET FROM THE DRIVEWAY, SORRY, THE GARAGE TO THE DRIVEWAY CURB.
UM, IT'S HARDLY ENOUGH DISTANCE FOR THEM TO ACTUALLY PULL OUT OF THEIR DRIVEWAY, MAKE A TURN, AND THEN EXIT THEIR, UH, DRIVEWAY.
UH, SO WE'RE ASKING FOR THE BENEFIT OF THAT VARIANCE TO, THEY'D SAY, KEEP THAT PORTION OF THE DRIVEWAY TO BE ABLE TO BACK OUT SAFELY MANEUVER, UH, ONTO THE STREET.
HOW MANY SQUARE FEET IS THAT SECTION THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT? UH, THE SECTION THAT ENCROACHES IS APPROXIMATELY 609 SQUARE FEET, GIVE OR TAKE.
UM, WE ARE WITHIN, UH, THE COVERAGE REQUIRED FOR THE DRIVEWAY.
THE ONLY VARIANCE WE'RE REQUESTING IS TO ENCROACH INTO THE SETBACK.
UM, WE ALSO HAVE, UH, A LETTER FROM THE NEIGHBOR AND PRO, UH, PROPERTY, UH, THAT WE RECEIVED TODAY.
SORRY, WE COULDN'T GET IN FRONT OF YOU IN TIME.
THERE, THERE'S NO OBJECTIONS, UH, FROM THE NEIGHBORS, UH, REGARDING THE ENCROACHMENT.
UM, IN FACT, THEY'VE, THEY HAVE GIVEN IT THEIR BLESSING 'CAUSE UH, THEIR KIDS PLAY TOGETHER SOMETIMES IN THAT DRIVEWAY.
SO THEY DEFINITELY NEED TO KEEP THAT SECTION OF THEIR DRIVEWAY.
HOW, HOW LONG HAVE THE OWNERS, UH, OWNED THIS PROPERTY, IF YOU KNOW? YES.
UH, SO THEY'VE LIVED THERE ABOUT SEVEN, SEVEN OR EIGHT YEARS, GIVE OR TAKE.
THEY BOUGHT THE, THE HOUSE WITH THE, WITH THE DRIVEWAY THAT ACTUALLY IT WAS ALREADY ENCROACHING INTO A SETBACK.
IF YOU CAN KIND OF SEE, UM, ON THAT 16 FOOT SETBACK, THE ORIGINAL DRIVEWAY WAS ALREADY ENCROACHING INTO IT.
SO THAT, THAT DRIVEWAY WAS APPROVED, BUT IT WAS ALREADY ILLEGAL.
THEY ONLY, UH, THEY ONLY ADDED TO IT BECAUSE IT STILL DID NOT HELP THEM GET OUT OF THEIR GARAGE.
THEY, THEY WOULD HAVE TO BACK UP, DRIVE ONTO THEIR GRASS, AND THEN TURN AROUND TO GET OUT.
AND THE REASON FOR THE, UH, PROPOSED EXTENSION IN THE FRONT.
SO, UH, RECENTLY THERE WAS CON SOME CONSTRUCTION AT THAT ADDRESS, UH, FOR A POOL.
UH, SOME OF THE CURBING AND DRIVEWAY WAS DAMAGED.
AND THEY'RE JUST TRYING TO, UH, SEE IF THEY CAN MAKE IT LOOK MORE MANEUVERABLE BY EXTENDING THAT PORTION.
STILL A LITTLE HARD TO, TO COME AROUND THAT CORNER OF THE, OF THE DRIVEWAY.
IN, IN THE BACK OR IN THE FRONT? IN THE FRONT.
THE PROPOSED DRIVEWAY EXTENSION, UH, 66 SQUARE FOOT.
SO HOW DO THEY MANAGE NOW? WELL, THAT, THAT PORTION OF THE DRIVE, OH, ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THE EXTENSION? YES.
UH, THEY, THEY DO MAKE IT, UM, IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT, UM, THAT THEY CAN'T DO, BUT IT'LL BE MUCH EASIER FOR THEM TO, TO NAVIGATE THROUGH THAT AREA OF THE DRIVEWAY IF THEY'RE ABLE TO GET THE, AND IS THERE ANY WAY TO REDUCE WHAT THEY'RE PROPOSING WITHOUT, UM, PREVENTING THEM FROM GETTING OUT OF THE DRIVEWAY AS THEY INTEND? UM, SO FROM THE, ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT FROM THE GARAGE OR FROM THE, FROM THE GARAGE.
UNFORTUNATELY, I DON'T SEE ANY OTHER RECOURSE.
BUT TO KEEP THAT EXTENSION, JUST LIKE I SAID, IT'S, IT'S
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ABOUT 20 FEET BETWEEN THE G THE GARAGE DOOR AND THE, AND THE, UH, LEGAL APPROVED, UH, DRIVEWAY, UH, CURB.SO THAT PORTION THAT THEY HAVE, IT'S PROBABLY ABOUT FOUR FEET OR SO, WHICH MAKES THAT AREA ABOUT 24 FEET INSTEAD OF THE 20 THAT THEY HAD BEFORE.
UM, THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT LEGALIZED.
IT'S THE PROPOSING TO, YEAH, IT'S THE PORTION TO THE RIGHT.
SO IF YOU SEE, IT'S KIND OF GOT A, IT'S A LOT NEWER THAN THE OLD DRIVEWAY, THAT PORTION TO THE RIGHT.
SO YOU'RE NOT PROPOSING TO TAKE OUT ANY MORE OF THE LANDSCAPE? NO, NO, WE'RE NOT.
BUT AGAIN, WHERE THAT CAR IS PARKED NOW, THAT'S THE, THE PIECE THAT WAS ADDED ON THAT IS THE PIECE THAT WAS ADDED ON.
AS YOU CAN SEE IT, THERE'S SOME OTHER PICTURES THAT SHOWS THAT IT'S NOT VERY WIDE AREA.
IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO BACK OUT OF THAT AREA WITHOUT GOING UP AGAINST THE EXISTING WALL THERE.
SO THAT LITTLE PIECE THERE REALLY IS ESSENTIAL FOR THEM GETTING IN AND OUT OF THAT THREE CAR GARAGE AREA, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE.
SO WHEN WAS THE, UH, ADDITION TO THE DRIVEWAY PUT ON? SO I BELIEVE THAT WAS ADDED A YEAR AFTER, UH, THE COLEYS MOVED INTO THEIR HOUSE.
UM, UNFORTUNATELY THEY DID NOT SEEK THE TOWN'S APPROVAL, UH, TO DO THIS EXTENSION WORK, WHICH IS WHY WE'RE HERE.
BUT, UH, WE'RE ASKING NOW THAT WE, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN HELP US OUT WITH THAT
SORRY, THE HOUSE IS NOT FOR SALE, I ASSUME.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE WANNA HAVE ANY COMMENTS ON THIS MATTER? CAN I, YEAH, SURE.
THE LETTER OF SUPPORT, WAS THAT FROM THE, A NEIGHBOR THAT'S IMMEDIATELY ABUTTING, OR IS? YES.
UH, THAT'S FROM MRS. BRA BRATA, UH, 44, UM, SPRING VALLEY.
UM, I JUST WANTED TO ADDRESS THE, WE, WE DID IT UNBEKNOWNST TO US, OUR FIRST TIME OF HOME, HOME OWNERSHIP, WHEN WE EXTENDED THE DRIVEWAY, WE WERE UNAWARE THAT EXTENDING THAT SMALL PORTION WAS, UM, SOMETHING THAT WE NEEDED A PERMIT FOR.
'CAUSE WHEN WE DID PURCHASE THE HOME, IT WAS JUST LIKE A PIT OF MUD AND WE WERE HAVING TO COME THROUGH THE MUD TO COME INTO THE, UM, INTO THE GARAGE.
SO WE DID IT IN A VERY UNKNOWING MANNER.
UM, AND WE'RE JUST HOPING TO CORRECT IT NOW.
NEXT CASE ON TONIGHT'S AGENDA IS CASE 2124, PROPERTY AT FIVE BRESSLER AVENUE, WHITE PLAIN.
UH, GOOD EVENING, MADAM CHAIRWOMAN, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.
I'M THE ARCHITECT, UH, M I C H A E L F I N E L L I.
I'M HERE WITH MR. JUSTIN PRAZA, THE OWNER OF THE HOME, UM, AT FIVE DRIZZLE AVENUE.
UNFORTUNATELY, UH, BECAUSE OF AN ACT OF GOD, UM, HE HAD A RATHER LARGE PINE TREE IN HIS FRONT YARD, WHICH WAS TOPPLED, UM, AND FELL ONTO THE HOME, UH, JUST A LITTLE OVER A YEAR.
NOW, UH, THAT TREE CAUSED SIGNIFICANT STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO THE EXISTING HOUSE, WHICH WAS BUILT IN 1929.
UM, THE PROBLEM THAT WE'RE HAVING NOW IS THAT MR. PEDROZA AND HIS FAMILY HAVE BEEN RELOCATED AND THEY ARE NOT LIVING AT THE HOME.
UM, THEY HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH THEIR INSURANCE COMPANY TO, UM, SECURE, UH, TEMPORARY
AND UNFORTUNATELY, UM, LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE, TIME IS RUNNING OUT.
UM, AND WE, UH, UNFORTUNATELY ARE HERE IN FRONT OF THE BOARD.
UM, SO WE'RE LOOKING FOR, WE'RE SEEKING TWO VARIANCES.
ONE, UM, JUST BECAUSE THE HOME BEING BUILT IN 1929 WAS BUILT IN A NON-CONFORMING, UH, WAY ON THE PROPERTY, IT SITS IN THE BACK LEFT HAND CORNER OF THE PROPERTY.
UM, AND IT IS ALREADY WITHIN THE REAR GUARD SETBACK.
SO FURTHERMORE, THE WAY THE, THE ACTUAL ROOF IS CONSTRUCTED,
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UM, IT'S FRAMED FROM THE RIDGE AND IT GOES DOWN TO THE FIRST FLOOR.AND ALL OF THE SPACE ON THE SECOND FLOOR IS TECHNICALLY UNDERNEATH THE ROOF.
UM, THAT GAVE US A VERY LOW, IT'S AN EXISTING VERY LOW CEILING IN, UH, IN THAT ROOF LINE OF SIX FEET.
AND SIMPLY TO REBUILD IT TO AN EIGHT FOOT STANDARD SIZE, UM, SO THAT WE CAN GET EGRESS WING WINDOWS AND MEET CODE, UM, TO MAKE THE HOME CONFORM TO TODAY'S NEW YORK STATE BUILDING CODE, UH, WE HAVE TO RIP THE ENTIRE SECOND FLOOR OF THE HOUSE OFF ROOF, UM, AND BASICALLY RIGHT DOWN TO THE FIRST FLOOR CEILING TO RECONSTRUCT, UM, THE, THE SECOND FLOOR AND MAKE IT, UM, MEET CODE.
SO UNFORTUNATELY, WHEN IT COMES TO THE FIVE QUESTIONS, I, I THINK IF I WERE TO JUST REITERATE EACH ONE OF THEM, I COULD, I, I, I, UH, BASICALLY ANSWERED HIM IN THE APPLICATION.
I, I DON'T WANT TO KIND OF BEAT THE DEAD HORSE, BUT UNFORTUNATELY WE ARE A VICTIM OF, UM, AN ACT OF GOD, THE ONE VARIANCE THAT IS SELF-INFLICTED.
UM, AND WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE HOUSE, WE ARE PUSHING OUT THE HOUSE THREE FEET.
WHEN WE STARTED TO RECONFIGURE THE SECOND FLOOR AND GET THE SPACES BACK IN, UM, WE NEEDED TO ADD THREE FEET TO THE SECOND FLOOR IN ORDER TO PUT IN A BATHROOM.
UM, WE ARE NOT INCREASING THE FIRST FLOOR FOOTPRINT.
THAT WILL BE A CANTILEVER, BUT SIMPLY AGAIN, BECAUSE WE ARE PUSHING OUT TO THE LEFT, UM, WE ARE NOW ENCROACHING INTO THAT REAR 32 FOOTY YARD SETBACK.
UM, BUT RIGHT BEHIND US THERE IS A ONE STORY ADDITION ALREADY THERE, AND THERE'S ALSO A ONE STORY, UM, ENCLOSED WOODEN DECK, UH, WITH A SCREEN.
SO WE PUSH MUCH CLOSER TO THE PROPERTY LINE THAN WE'RE PROPOSING.
UM, UNFORTUNATELY, WHEN WE, I SHOULD SAY FORTUNATELY, WHEN WE DO BUILD THE ADDITION ON TOP OF THIS HOUSE, WE WILL BE AT, UM, JUST ABOUT THE SAME LEVEL THAT THE HOUSE IS AT NOW.
AND FROM A CHARACTERISTICS POINT OF VIEW, I TRIED TO USE ALL THE ARCHITECTURAL CUES FROM THE HOUSE AS IT WAS DESIGNED TO PUT IT BACK, VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT IT WAS, BUT WITH A, A MORE MODERN TWIST THAT MEETS NEW YORK STATE CODE.
UM, AND IF WE CAN GO TO THE ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS OF THE ELEVATION, UM, YOU CAN SEE, UH, WHAT I MEAN BY THAT, UM, AS FAR AS TRYING TO KEEP IT, UH, LOOKING LIKE THE HOME THAT IT WAS, UH, IF YOU LOOK AT THAT TOP DRAWING THERE, THAT'S WHAT THE HOME LOOKS LIKE.
NOW THOSE WINDOWS ARE ONLY JUST UNDER THREE FEET TALL, AND THEY'RE AT FIVE FOOT 10 INCHES.
SO THEY'RE NOT LARGE ENOUGH FOR FIREMEN TO GET IN THERE.
THEY DON'T MEET NEW YORK STATE, UM, CODE.
AND THOSE ARE AT EACH BEDROOM.
UM, TWO, THE CENTER ONES ARE THE ONES TO THE LEFT ARE AT THE BEDROOMS. SO THERE IS NO WAY TO PHYSICALLY KEEP THAT PROFILE AND, UH, STILL HAVE THAT SAME ROOF LINE AND ALLOW EGRESS TO BE MET.
SO WE HAD TO LITERALLY LIFT THE ENTIRE SECOND FLOOR TO REBUILD THIS HOUSE.
UM, IF YOU KEEP SCROLLING DOWN, ACTUALLY, IF YOU LOOK AT THAT LINE ACROSS THOSE TWO LOWER DRAWINGS RIGHT THERE, THAT'S BASICALLY WHAT WE'RE RIPPING OFF OF THE HOUSE.
SO EVEN THOUGH I SAY WE'RE TEARING IT ALL THE WAY DOWN, WE ARE GONNA KEEP THE OUTSIDE WALLS UP TO SIX FEET AND WE'RE GONNA BUILD THEM, UH, TWO FEET TALLER TO GET AN EIGHT FOOT CEILING.
UH, IF YOU KEEP SCROLLING DOWN, PLEASE, UH, A LITTLE MORE TO THE ELEVATIONS, THAT'S WHAT THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE WILL LOOK LIKE NOW.
AND AS YOU CAN SEE, I KEPT A VERY SIMILAR RHYTHM OF WINDOWS UP AT THE SECOND FLOOR.
UH, THERE WAS AN EXISTING PORCH ACROSS THE FIRST FLOOR, WHICH AGAIN, WE'RE KEEPING, THERE WAS A PORTICO RIGHT AT THE FRONT DOOR.
WE CLEANED IT UP, GAVE IT A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A MODERN LOOK, BUT THE IDEA IS TO KEEP IT VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT WAS THERE.
AND YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE THE LINE, UH, IN THE ROOF, UM, THAT DELINEATES WHERE THE HOUSE WAS AND WHERE WE'RE PUTTING IT BACK.
WE MEET CODE IN EVERY WAY, BUT SIMPLY BY BUILDING ON THE EXISTING FOOTPRINT, UM, WE WOULD NEED TO COME VISIT THE BOARD AND, UH, SAY HELLO
UM, BUT THE ONE THING THAT WE DID DO IS PUSH OUT THAT ADDITIONAL THREE FEET.
AND AGAIN, THAT WAS JUST A, UM, A NATURE OF RECONFIGURING THE SECOND FLOOR.
UH, AND WE NEEDED TO, TO DO THAT ADDITIONAL THREE FEET, UM, TO THE SIDE.
AND UNFORTUNATELY, IT DOES PUSH INTO THAT REAR YARD.
UH, WHEN WE DO THAT, THERE WAS NO WAY TO MAKE IT NARROWER BECAUSE WE ARE SITTING ON TOP OF THAT EXISTING FOOTPRINT THAT'S THERE.
SO WE'RE USING THAT TO ALLOW US TO CANTILEVER OFF AND, UH, STRUCTURALLY SUPPORT THAT SECTION OF THE HOUSE.
UM, I'M SORRY, IT'S NOT A, I'M AN ARCHITECT, NOT AN ATTORNEY, SO THIS IS MORE OF AN ARCHITECTURAL PRESENTATION, BUT
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I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS AND HOPEFULLY, UH, UM, I I WAS ABLE TO ANSWER THE FIVE QUESTIONS JUST SIMPLY WITH MY QUICK RUN THROUGH ON, ON WHAT HAPPENED THERE.THE ONLY THING I WOULD SAY IS JUST THE SQUARE FOOTAGE ON F A R ON THE HOME.
HOW MUCH IS IT INCREASING? SO,
OKAY? SO THE NUMBER LOOKS LIKE IT INCREASED DRAMATICALLY, BUT IT WAS ALWAYS THERE.
IT JUST WASN'T COUNTED BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE A FULL SEVEN FOOT, WHICH IS WHERE, UM, YOU START MEASURING SQUARE FOOTAGE FROM NOW THAT WE'RE GOING TO EIGHT FEET, IT ALL COUNTS, OKAY? BUT IT WAS ALWAYS THERE.
ALRIGHT, HOPEFULLY THAT ANSWERED THE QUESTION.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE WANNA ADDRESS THIS? THIS IS THE OWNER OF MR. JUSTIN RAZA.
HELLO, UH, MY NAME IS JUSTIN RAZA.
I ACTUALLY PURCHASED THIS HOME.
UH, THIS IS MY I FIRST HOME IN, IN WESTCHESTER, WHITE PLAINS.
LIKE WE, I BROUGHT MY FAMILY UP FROM JERSEY.
MY WIFE GREW UP HERE IN WHITE PLAINS, AND WE BOUGHT, WE BOUGHT THIS HOUSE, UH, JANUARY, 2020 AND AUGUST, UH, 2020.
THE, THAT TREE THAT YOU SEE, UH, IN THAT, UH, AERIAL VIEW SAT RIGHT ON OUR HOUSE DUE TO ISAIAH.
UH, CURRENTLY WE'VE BEEN, YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN IN AND OUT OF THE HOUSE, BUT MY FAMILY'S BEEN IN THE, UH, APARTMENT THAT'S TAKEN CARE OF BY THE INSURANCE, AND WE'VE ACTUALLY BEEN IN THE APARTMENT WITH, YOU KNOW, MY KIDS LONGER THAN I'VE BEEN IN MY BEAUTIFUL HOME THAT I WANT TO TAKE 'EM HOME TO.
SO WE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE COMING TO YOU TODAY JUST, I, AS A, I KNOW THIS IS A FORMALITY AND THIS IS A PART OF THE PROCESS OF GETTING OUR, GETTING THE HOME REBUILT THE RIGHT WAY.
BUT I JUST WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE, UH, IMPORTANCE IT IS TO MY FAMILY, TO MY YOUNG CHILDREN THAT ARE, ARE MISSING OUT ON ALL THE HOLIDAYS AND ALL THE GOOD STUFF THAT THEY'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO AND TO WHICH THEY MISSED, YOU KNOW, THIS SO FAR.
SO, UH, THAT, THAT, I MEAN, THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY.
ANYONE ELSE IN THE AUDIENCE? OKAY.
THE NEXT CASE ON TONIGHT'S AGENDA IS CASE 2125, PROPERTY AT 29 HAWTHORNE WAY, HARTSDALE.
GOOD EVENING, MADAM CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.
MY NAME'S PETER STRATUS AND, UH, I AM HERE TO REQUEST THIS BOARD'S APPROVAL OF MY APPLICATION FOR A SPECIAL USE PERMIT TO PERMIT ME TO INSTALL AN ANTENNA TOWER AT MY HOME IN 29 HAWTHORNE WAY IN HARTSDALE, I'M LICENSED BY THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATION COMMISSION AS AN AMATEUR RADIO OPERATOR AT MY CURRENT ADDRESS.
MY HOME SITS ON A LOT, SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN ONE ACRE, AS ARE THE LOTS TO MY NORTH, SOUTH, AND EAST.
THE REQUEST, THIS REQUEST INVOLVES AN ACCOMMODATION FROM THE REQUIREMENTS SET FORTH IN SECTION 2 85, 37, A SIX, IN THAT I WOULD LIKE TO INSTALL OF THE TOWER AT A DISTANCE OF 10 FEET FROM MY HOUSE AND HAVE A HEIGHT OF 55 FEET.
GENERALLY THE SECOND AND THIRD SENTENCES OF, UH, SECTION 28 37 A SIX REQUIRE THAT THE ANTENNA QUOTE A BUT THE PRINCIPLE STRUCTURE AND LIMITS ITS HEIGHT TO THE ROOF ELEVATION PLUS SEVEN FEET.
YOUR ISSUANCE OF A SPECIAL USE PERMIT WOULD PERMIT ME TO INSTALL MY TOWER ANTENNA WITHOUT REGARD TO THE ORDINANCE LIMITATIONS, BUT CONSISTENT WITH THE HEIGHT AND LOCATION LIMITATIONS SET FORTH IN MY APPLICATION.
THERE IS NO DENYING THIS IS A BIG TOWER AND ANTENNA.
THE TOWER WAS ENGINEERED AND BUILT BY US TOWERS LOCATED IN CALIFORNIA.
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THAT COMPANY ALSO BUILDS COMMERCIAL TOWERS AND TOWERS FOR THE US PORTABLE, THE US PORTABLE TOWERS FOR THE US MILITARY.WITH A PROJECT THIS SIZE, SAFETY MUST ALWAYS BE THE PRINCIPAL CONSIDERATION.
UH, ATTACHED TO MY APPLICATION IS A STRUCTURAL AND ANALYSIS REPORT, WHICH CONTAINS THE, UM, THE TOWERS ENGINEERING SPECIFICATIONS.
UH, SAFETY FEATURES ARE BUILT INTO THIS TOWER.
IF WE COULD HAVE PHOTO NUMBER ONE, PLEASE.
PHOTO NUMBER ONE ILLUSTRATES THE FOUNDATION THAT HAS TO BE INSTALLED IN MY BACKYARD, UH, IN ORDER TO ACCOMMODATE THE WEIGHT AND STRESSES ON THE FOUNDATION.
YOU WILL NOTE THAT IT'S A THREE FOOT, THREE AND A HALF FOOT SQUARE BY SIX FOOT DEEP FOUNDATION.
THAT FOUNDATION WILL WEIGH APPROXIMATELY 8,000 POUNDS.
NOW, IN ADDITION, YOU WILL NOTE THAT THE FOUNDATION HAS, IN IT, IT SHOWS TWO, BUT ACTUALLY THERE ARE FOUR BOLTS THAT ARE 27 INCHES LONG.
THEY ARE SET IN THE CONCRETE TO THE DEPTH OF 21 INCHES.
UM, NOW THE, THIS CONCRETE FOUNDATION HAS TO CURE FOR A PERIOD OF 28 TO 30 DAYS BEFORE ANY WEIGHT CAN BE PUT ON IT.
BUT ONCE IT IS DONE, AND I THINK WE'RE READY FOR PHOTO TWO, A UH, BASE UNIT WILL BE, UH, SET ON TOP OF THOSE FOUR BOLTS AND BOLTED DOWN.
NOW THIS IS A PHOTOGRAPH FROM THE PRIOR INSTALLATION IN ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA.
UH, BUT I'D LIKE TO POINT OUT SOME SPECIFIC, UM, ASPECTS OF IT.
THAT'S ROUGHLY 24 INCHES ABOVE THE GROUND LEVEL.
YOU'LL NOTICE ON THE FRONT OF THAT SHELF THERE IS A BEARING, WHICH IS INTENDED TO BEAR THE WEIGHT OF THE TOWER.
THIS BEARING IS SET IN A HINGE SO THAT WHEN THE TOWER IS INSERTED IN THE BEARING AND TIPPED IT UP, THE HINGE WILL PERMIT THE TOWER TO RISE INTO THE VERTICAL POSITION.
NOW THE SECOND THING I WOULD LIKE TO CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO WITH REGARD TO THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS AT THE VERY TOP OF THE BASE, ON THE SAME SIDE AS THAT SHELF, YOU'LL SEE SOME FINGERS, WHAT APPEAR TO BE FINGERS STICKING OUT.
AND LET ME SHOW YOU WHAT GOES INTO THOSE FINGERS.
THIS IS ABOUT THE ONLY PART OF THE TOWER, WHICH I CAN CARRY.
THE REST OF IT'S MUCH TOO HEAVY.
THIS IS ROUGHLY THE DIAMETER OF THE LOWER TOWER SECTION.
AND THIS WILL BE PLACED INTO THAT BRACKET AT THE TOP OF THE TOWER.
IT FITS IN AND GETS BOLTED IN.
ONCE THE TOWER IS IN THERE, IN THE VERTICAL POSITION, THIS IS INSTALLED IN THAT BRACKET, IT CONFINES THE TOWER TO THE VERTICAL POSITION.
SO IT'S AN ABSOLUTE SAFEGUARD TO PREVENT THE TOWER FROM FREEWILL, IF YOU WILL, OR FALLING FORWARD.
NOW, ON THE BACK OF THIS SPACE UNIT, THERE'S ANOTHER BRACKET THAT ACTUALLY HOLDS SOMETHING CALLED OUR, UH, RAISING ELEMENT.
AND I WILL SHOW YOU THAT, UH, WHEN WE GO TO THE NEXT PHOTOGRAPH.
NOW, THIS MAY BE A LITTLE HARD TO SEE LOOKING AT THE, THE OVERHEAD HERE, BUT LET ME TRY AND SHOW YOU HERE ON THIS.
IN BLACK AND WHITE, IT SHOWS A LITTLE MORE CLEARLY.
THIS IS THE RAISING ELEMENT HERE,
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AND THIS IS WHAT YOU USE TO PULL THE TOWER FROM A HORIZONTAL POSITION UP TO A VERTICAL POSITION.YOU'LL SEE IT HAS A WINCH ON IT.
UH, IT MAY BE A LITTLE HARD TO SEE IN THE COLOR PHOTOGRAPH THERE, BUT THERE'S, WELL, THAT'S, YEAH, THAT'S THE WINCH THAT'S BEING POINTED OUT WITH THE CURSOR.
SO THAT'S THE ONE THAT PERMITS THE TOWER TO BE TILTED AND THEN RAISED THE SECOND WINCH ON THE MAIN TOWER THAT YOU SEE, OR YOU MAY BE ABLE TO SEE, UH, IS THE ONE THAT RAISES THE TWO UPPER, UM, BES OF THE TOWER.
AND THEN YOU CAN ALSO SEE JUST A LITTLE BIT OF THE CABLE FROM THE WINCH, THE RAISING FIXTURE THAT, THAT ACTUALLY EXTENDS OUT TO LOWER THE, THE, UM, TOWER.
OKAY, THE NEXT PHOTOGRAPH, NUMBER FOUR SHOWS YOU THE COMPLETE TOWER.
THIS IS IN ITS RETRACTED POSITION, WHICH IS ROUGHLY 26 FEET, UH, TALL.
UH, BY USING THE WINCH ON THE BASE, UH, UH, THE LOWER PART OF THE TOWER, YOU CAN RAISE THE SECOND AND THIRD ELEMENTS OF THE TOWER.
UM, THE THREE SECTIONS OF THE LOWER TOWER WEIGH ROUGHLY 610 POUNDS.
WHEN YOU ADD IN THE BASE UNIT AND THE, UH, RAISING FIXTURE, WE GET TO ROUGHLY 824 POUNDS, UH, THAT ARE SITTING ON A FOUNDATION WEIGHING 8,000 POUNDS.
NOW, THERE ARE TWO VERY CRITICAL, UM, ENGINEERING MAXIMUM SET FORTH ON THE COVER PAGE OF THE REPORT.
AND I'D LIKE TO CALL THESE TO YOUR ATTENTION.
THE FIRST IS ABOUT THE MIDDLE OF THE PAGE.
IT SAYS MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE ANTENNA OH EIGHT IN POUNDS, AND THEN IT GOES OVER AND SAYS A HUNDRED POUNDS.
SO THAT'S THE MAXIMUM WEIGHT OF AN ANTENNA THAT CAN BE PLACED SAFELY PLACED ON TOP OF THE TOWER.
AND THEN THE NEXT LINE SAYS, MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE ANTENNA EFFECTIVE WIND AREA IN SQUARE FEET.
WHAT THEY MEAN BY WIND AREA IS ACTUALLY THE SQUARE FOOTAGE OF THE ELEMENTS OF THE ANTENNA THAT'S SITTING ON TOP OF THE, UH, TOWER.
NOW LET'S JUST GO TO THE NEXT PAGE.
UH, OR YES, THIS IS, UM, PAGE SIX.
AND WHAT IT SHOWS IS IN THE UPPER PART OF THE PAGE, IT SHOWS THE ACTUAL STRUCTURE OF THE ANTENNA.
IT CONSISTS OF A 16 FOOT BOOM, ONE THAT'S THE SINGLE PIECE, AND THEN THREE ELEMENTS GOING, UH, AT 90 DEGREE ANGLES TO THE BOOM.
THE BOOM, AS I SAID, IS 16 FEET LONG.
EACH OF THE ELEMENTS IS 36 FEET.
NOW GOING BACK TO THE A HUNDRED POUNDS OF ANTENNA WEIGHT AND 14.4 OF WIND LOAD, IF WE GO DOWN TO THE CHART, OH, 1, 2, 3 FIFTH ITEM, THE WEIGHT OF ANTENNA IS 51 POUNDS.
SO THAT IS JUST SLIGHTLY OVER THE MAXIMUM WEIGHT, ONE HALF THE MAXIMUM WEIGHT THAT THE ANTENNA CAN BEAR, THE TOWER CAN BEAR.
IF WE LOOK AT THE WIND LOAD, WHICH IS 14 4, 14 0.4, UH, SQUARE FEET, THIS ONE COMES OUT AT 6.1, LESS THAN 50% OF THE WIND ROAD.
UM, WHEN WE WERE LOOKING AT THE FRONT PAGE, WE DON'T NEED TO GO BACK, BUT THERE'S ONE OTHER SAFETY FACTOR THAT WE HAVE.
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MASH SHALL BE FULLY RETRACTED FOR WIND SPEEDS ABOVE 50 MILES PER HOUR.SO THEY FULLY EXPECT THE ENGINEERING SPECIFICATIONS FULLY EXPECT YOU TO LOWER THAT AND ANTENNA, UM, RETRACT IT WHEN YOU'RE GOING TO BE EXPECT WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MILES PER HOUR.
NOW THE ANTENNA REVIEW BOARD RAISED SEVERAL QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE SITE, THE SITE INSTALLATION, UH, THE ANTENNA FALL ZONE, THE YARD FENCING, SETBACKS, AND SO FORTH.
SO IF WE CAN GO TO THE NEXT PHOTOGRAPH.
WELL, I'LL GO TO THE NEXT ONE.
YEAH, THIS SHOWS A, UM, A PLOT DIAGRAM TAKEN FROM AN EARLIER, UH, UH, BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATION SETTING FORTH THE FENCING ON ALL FOUR SIDES OF THE PROPERTY.
AND I'LL GO THROUGH THAT REAL QUICKLY.
ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE PROPERTY, UM, WHICH IS THE RIGHT HAND SIDE, WE HAVE EIGHT FOOT DEER FENCING ACROSS THE BACK OF THE PROPERTY, WHICH IS THE EAST SIDE.
WE HAVE, UH, AGAIN, EIGHT FOOT DEER FENCING ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE PROPERTY.
MY WIFE OR MY, UH, NEIGHBOR WHO HAS A, UM, SWIMMING POOL IN HER BACKYARD HAS INSTALLED A FOUR FOOT CHAIN LINK FENCE AROUND THE ENTIRE PERIMETER OF HER BACKYARD, NOT JUST THE SWIMMING AREA.
WHEN WE COME TO THE WEST SIDE OF MY PROPERTY, WE HAVE A SIX FOOT PICKET FENCE AND THEN AN EIGHT FOOT DEER FENCE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HOUSE.
AND YOU KNOW, THESE, UH, FENCES WERE NOT INSTALLED IN ANTICIPATION OF PUTTING UP THIS ANTENNA.
IT WAS REALLY TO KEEP THE DEER AWAY FROM OUR ROSE BUSHES.
UM, TURNING BACK, I GUESS IT IS TO NUMBER SEVEN, AN ADDITIONAL SAFETY FACTOR IS DEMONSTRATED ON THIS PAGE FROM, AGAIN, THE, UH, ENGINEERING REPORT.
YOU'LL NOTICE THAT THERE'S AN OVERLAP BETWEEN THE FIRST SECTION AND THE SECTION SECTION WHERE THE SECOND SECTION IS ACTUALLY NESTLED INSIDE OF THE LOWER SECTION TOWARD DEPTH OF FOUR FEET.
SIMILARLY, YOU GO UP TO THE THIRD SECTION AND THE SECOND SECTION, AND YOU FIND THAT THE THIRD SECTION IS NESTLED INSIDE OF THE SECOND SECTION TO ADAPT THE FOUR FEET.
SO ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, UH, YOU KNOW, THE ENGINEERING REALLY TOOK SAFETY INTO ACCOUNT, AND I HOPE I HAVE DEMONSTRATED THAT TO YOU TODAY.
UM, NOW I SPOKE TO BOTH MY NEIGHBOR ON THE NORTH WITH WHOM I SHARE A COMMON DRIVEWAY, AND THE NEIGHBOR ON THE SOUTH, THE SOUTH NEIGHBORS WERE ACTUALLY HERE EARLIER THIS MORNING, EVENING.
BUT, UH, GIVEN THE DELAY IN THE START, THEY REALLY COULDN'T STAY.
UM, NUMBER NINE OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS SHOWS A VIEW TAKEN FROM THE PROPOSED SITE OF THE, YEAH, THIS IS NUMBER NINE.
THIS IS LOOKING NORTH FROM THE SITE OF THE PROPOSED INSTALLATION.
THE NEXT PHOTO SHOWS THE VIEW LOOKING EAST, AND FROM THE, UH, LOCATION OF THE, UM, THE PROPOSED LOCATION FOR THE, UM, TOWER.
IT'S ABOUT 102 FEET TO THE BACK LINE.
UM, THE NEXT PHOTO SHOWS MY, UM, VIEW TO THE SOUTH, UM, WHICH AGAIN, YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK I SHOWED YOU THE, UM, FALL ZONE.
IF WE COULD JUST GO BACK TO PHOTO NUMBER SEVEN.
IT JUST OCCURRED TO ME, YES, THIS ONE YOU'LL SEE TWO CIRCULAR, UM, HALF CIRCLES DRAWN.
ONE SAYS A 50 FOOT, FOUR FOOT FALL
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ZONE, WHICH IS IF THE TOWER WAS TO FALL, WELL, IT WAS FULLY EXTENDED.IT WOULD STILL FALL WITHIN MY PROPERTY HOMES ON THE SOUTH.
IT WOULD NOT GET TO THE DEER FENCE.
AND IF IT FELL WELL, IT WAS IN A RETRACTED STATE, THE 27 FOOT FALL ZONE WOULD IDENTIFY THE AREA WHERE IT WOULD FALL.
AGAIN, IN EITHER CASE, THE, IF THE, IF FOR SOME REASON THIS TOWER SHOULD EVER FALL, IT WOULD NOT FALL BEYOND OUR PROPERTY LINES.
NOW THE ANTENNA REVIEW BOARD ALSO REQUESTED THEIR LEGAL COUNSEL, MR. MICHAEL D. ROBERTS, TO RULE ON WHETHER SECTION 28 37 A SIX OF THE TOWN ORDINANCE WAS LEGAL.
UH, IN CONCLUDING THAT THE SECTION WAS LEGAL, MR. ROBERTS STATED IN HIS NEXT TO THE LAST SENTENCE, AND I'M QUOTING ACCOMMODATIONS FOR THE PROPOSED AMATEUR RADIO FACILITY SHOULD BE MADE.
AGAIN, ACCOMMODATIONS FOR THE PROPOSED AMATEUR RADIO SHOULD BE MADE.
AND MR. ROBERTS WAS AWARE OF ALL THE DETAIL INVOLVED WITH THE PROPOSED STRUCTURE.
THEN HE GOES ON ACCOMMODATIONS FOR THE PROPOSED AMATEUR RADIO FACILITY SHOULD BE MADE.
THEN HE CONTINUES TO THE EXTENT THAT THEY DO NOT POSE LEGITIMATE THREATS, LEGITIMATE THREATS TO PUBLIC HEALTH, SAFETY AND GENERAL WELFARE, OR TO THE CHARACTER OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD OR TO THE RESIDENTS.
I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH MR. ROBERT'S SUMMATION.
I THINK HE'S GOT IT 100% CORRECT.
HOWEVER, I THINK IT IS THE OBLIGATION OF THIS BOARD TO CONSIDER.
WHAT WOULD CONS, WHAT WOULD CONSTITUTE A LEGITIMATE THREAT TO PUBLIC HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE IN THIS CASE? SOME COME TO MIND IF YOU PERMITTED THE INSTALLATION OF THIS TOWER AND THIS ANTENNA AT, AT A, AT A, UH, WIDTH CONDITIONS VARYING FROM THE SPECIFICATIONS THAT FORTH IN THE ENGINEERING REPORT.
I THINK THAT WOULD BE A REAL MISTAKE.
FOR INSTANCE, IF YOU SAID, WELL, YOU DON'T NEED A THREE BY THREE BY SIX FOOT DEEP FOUNDATION, YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH A ONE.
OR I CAME IN AND SAID, I WANT TO GO WITH A ONE BY ONE BY TWO FOOT FOUNDATION, THAT WOULD BE WRONG.
YOU SHOULDN'T GRANT A PERMIT UNDER THOSE CA CONDITIONS.
A SECOND CASE WHERE IT WOULD BE REASONABLE TO DENY THE APPLICATION IS INSTALLING THE TOWER ANTENNA, UH, NEXT TO A POLICE FIRE OR E M T STATION, WHERE RADIO FREQUENCY COMMUNICATIONS ARE REGULARLY, UH, USED FOR THEIR COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSMISSIONS FROM THIS TOWER AND ANTENNA MIGHT INTERFERE WITH THOSE COMMUNICATIONS.
SIMILARLY, IN AN INSTALLATION CLOSE TO A HOSPITAL MEDICAL CLINIC WHERE SENSITIVE ELECTRONIC DEVICES ARE USED, MIGHT BE DISRUPTED BY AMATEUR RADIO TRANSMISSIONS FINALLY, OR NEXT TO THE LAST INSTALLATION, CLOSE TO A CELL PHONE TOWER MAY RESULT INTERFERENCE WITH CELL PHONE PHONE SIGNALS.
FINALLY, AS IN EVERY CASE, THE INSTALLATION SHOULD NOT BE CLOSE TO ELECTRIC POWER LINES IN THE EVENT IT SHOULD FALL INTO THOSE LINES.
NONE OF THESE LEGITIMATE THREATS ARE PRESENT IN THIS CASE.
NOW, FOR THE FOREGOING REASONS, I RESPECTFULLY REQUEST THAT THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS ISSUE A SPECIAL USE PERMIT TO PERMIT THE ERECTION OF A 55 US TOWER, UH, TOWER AND THE STEPPER THREE ELEMENT ANTENNA.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION AND I WILL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.
I APPRECIATE IT'S BEEN SEVERAL DECADES,
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AND, UM, HAS BEEN VERY ENTERTAINING.AND QUESTION I HAVE OF YOU THIS, WHAT WOULD BE THE HOURS OF OPERATION OR THE ERECTION OF THE TOWER? UM, WELL, THEY'RE GOING TO VARY OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL YEARS.
UM, ONE OF THE PRINCIPLE CONSIDERATIONS THAT AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS HAVE IS THE STATE OF THE, BELIEVE ME, THE SUN SPOTS.
AND THEY TAKE, REGULAR SCIENTISTS TAKE REGULAR COUNTS OF THE NUMBER OF SUN SPOTS THAT EXIST ON THE SUN.
SUN SPOTS ARE BLACK SPOTS THAT APPEAR ON THE SURFACE OF THE SUN.
AND AS THE NUMBER OF SUN SPOTS INCREASE, RADIO COMMUNICATIONS, LONG DISTANCE RADIO COMMUNICATIONS, UH, ON EARTH IMPROVE.
NOW, WE HAVE LEARNED OVER SEVERAL CENTURIES THAT SUN SUNSPOT CYCLES RUN IN 11 YEAR CYCLES.
WE ARE JUST BEGINNING, UH, ANOTHER SUNSPOT RISE IN COUNT.
SO OVER THE NEXT TWO OR THREE YEARS, MAYBE EVEN FOUR YEARS, IT'LL BE BEFORE WE HIT A PEAK OF THE SUN SPOTS, CYCLES.
SO OVER THAT INNER ROOM, OVER THE NEXT COUPLE YEARS, UH, RECEPTION ISN'T REAL GOING TO BE REAL GREAT OR NOT AS GOOD AS IT WILL BE, AS IT WILL BE WHEN WE HIT THE PEAK OF THE SUNSPOT CYCLE.
NOW, LET'S SUPPOSE WE'RE AT THE SUNSPOT CYCLE.
'CAUSE THERE'S A, YOU CAN LITERALLY TALK TO AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, INDIA, SOUTHEAST INDIA, SOUTHEAST ASIA, THE PACIFIC OCEAN ISLANDS, ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD WITH VERY LITTLE DIFFICULTY.
AND THAT'S A HOT TIME, BUT THERE'S A FURTHER RESTRICTION.
TYPICALLY, YOU GET THOSE CONDITIONS BETWEEN DAWN AND DUSK.
AND, UM, IT DEPENDS ON WHERE IN THE WORLD YOU'RE TRYING TO GO OVER THAT, WITHIN THAT RANGE, YOU KNOW, AND THERE'S A LIMITATION
AS AN AMATEUR RADIO OPERATOR, I CAN'T OPERATE FOR 12 HOURS WITHOUT TAKING A BREAK.
AND TYPICALLY I WORK FOR AN HOUR OR TWO HOURS, UH, BECAUSE THAT'S LITERALLY ALL YOU CAN DO OVER THAT TIME.
UM, WHAT YOU FIND IN SITUATIONS WHERE WE HAVE HIGH SUNSPOT CYCLES, AND IT'S A VERY RARE FOREIGN STATION, YOU FIND THAT FOLKS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD ARE TRYING TO CONTACT THAT RARE STATION AT THE SAME TIME.
IT'S CALLED THE PILE UP
AND, UH, THAT ALSO SERVES AS A LIMITATION ON, ON THE, UM, SO IF A NEIGHBOR WERE TO ASK HOW LONG THIS TOWER WOULD BE ERECTED, YOU'RE SAYING IT'D BE AN HOUR OR TWO A DAY, OR IT'S GONNA STAY UP WELL FOR THE, LET'S SAY FOR THE NEXT TWO, THREE YEARS.
YOU KNOW, IT MAY BE ONCE OR TWICE A WEEK THAT I'LL GET ON FOR.
SO IT'S A RETRACTABLE ANTENNA.
SO ONCE IT'S ERECTED, IT STAYS UP, OR WILL IT COME DOWN AT THE CONCLUSION OF YOUR BROADCAST? WELL, IT COULD, IT CERTAINLY COULD.
UM, YOU KNOW, YOU, YOU LITERALLY, WHAT YOU'D HAVE TO DO IS GO OUT AND CRANK IT DOWN.
I MEAN, THAT'S NOT AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK.
UH, IT IS JUST THE ONE CRANK ON THE MAIN SHAFT THAT WE SAW.
UH, SO I COULD DEAL WITH THAT KIND OF A LIMITATION, JUST BRINGING IT DOWN EACH TIME WHEN I'VE COMPLETED MY TRANSMISSIONS.
UH, NOW THE OTHER THING IS THAT IT, IT, WELL, IT CAN GO UP TO 55 FEET OPTIMALLY.
FOR THE BANDS I'M GOING TO BE WORKING ON.
UH, SO IT'LL NEVER BE UP AT THE MAXIMUM HEIGHT.
NOW, THERE'S ONE THING I FORGOT TO MENTION, AND THAT'S THE VERY LAST OF MY SLIDES OR PICTURES.
THERE'S A RISE IN MY BACKYARD, UH, OF ROUGHLY 14 FEET FROM THE AREA WHERE THE TOWER WOULD BE INSTALLED.
AND THE REAR FENCE, IT'S ROUGHLY 14 TALLER IN THE BACK.
AND SO IF YOU DON'T GET THE TOWER UP HIGH ENOUGH, YOU'RE GONNA BE HAVING YOUR SIGNAL BANG INTO THE GROUND, WHICH DOES YOU NO GOOD AT ALL.
SO YOU WANT THE TOWER UP HIGH ENOUGH, BUT 45 FEET SHOULD DO IT.
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THAT WOULD BE CONSISTENT WITH THE BANDS I WANT TO OPERATE.HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE YOU TO PUT IT UP AND TAKE IT DOWN? UM, NOT LONG.
IT, UM, THE ONLY TWO THAT COME DOWN IS THE THIRD SECTION AND THE SECOND SECTION, IT MIGHT TAKE, DEPENDING ON HOW FAST YOU CRANK, UH, 10 MINUTES, YOU KNOW, I HAVEN'T HAD IT ERECTED TO TRY IT, QUITE HONESTLY, BUT AT MAX IT COULDN'T TAKE MORE THAN 10 MINUTES.
CERTAINLY WHEN WE LOWERED IT TO TAKE IT TO DIS TO TAKE IT APART, IT DIDN'T TAKE MORE THAN THREE OR FOUR MINUTES TO LOWER IT ALL THE WAY TO THE, FROM A VERTICAL POSITION TO A HORIZONTAL POSITION.
UH, AND I WOULD EXPECT, YOU KNOW, THAT KIND OF, UH, RATE WITH REGARD TO THE, THE THREE ELEMENTS OF THE TOWER POWER CHAIR.
CAN I CLOSE THE QUESTION JUST A SECOND.
UM, IF YOU DIDN'T PROPOSE THIS STYLE OR THIS MECHANISM TO ACHIEVE YOUR NEEDS, WHAT WAS, IS THERE AN ALTERNATE, UM, ANTENNA STYLE OR, YOU KNOW, WHAT WOULD THAT LOOK LIKE? OR DID YOU CONSIDER IT? OR IS THERE, IS IT BASICALLY THIS OR THERE'S NO OTHER VIABLE METHOD TO ACHIEVE WHAT YOU WANNA DO? I, I'M SMILING AT YOUR QUESTION BECAUSE, BOY, THERE COULD NOT BE A BETTER TOWER ANTENNA COMBINATION FOR SOMEONE MY AGE AND, AND STRENGTH
IT TILTS OVER, SO I NEVER HAVE TO CLIMB A TOWER.
UH, I HAVE COMPLETE ACCESS TO THE ANTENNA, WHICH IS PROBABLY THE MOST FRAGILE PART OF THE WHOLE OPERATION FROM THE GROUND.
NUMBER TWO, ONE OF THE THINGS I DIDN'T MENTION IS THAT THE BASE OF THE TOWER ACTUALLY CAN HAVE, LET ME GO BACK TO THIS PICTURE.
THE BASE OF THE TOWER DOWN IN THIS AREA CAN HAVE A ROTATOR ATTACHED TO IT.
NOW THE ROTATOR WILL TURN THE ENTIRE TOWER AND THE ANTENNA AT TOP.
NORMALLY A ROTATOR IS INSTALLED AT THE VERY TOP OF THE TOWER.
ANOTHER GREAT SAVING DEVICE AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED, BECAUSE AGAIN, IF SOMETHING'S GOING THROUGH WITH THE ROTATOR, THEY DON'T HAVE TO CLIMB UP ON TOP.
I APPRECIATE YOUR ATTENTION AND, UH, IF THERE'S ANYTHING MORE YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW, I'LL BE GLAD TO, UH, ADDRESS THOSE ISSUES.
THE, THE ONLY THING THAT I'M STILL A LITTLE STUCK ON IS YOU REFER TO THE FENCING IS, IS THAT TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THE FALL AREA IS WITHIN THE FENCING? OR IS IT THAT THE FENCING OFFERS SOME TYPE OF PROTECTION? I'M A LITTLE CONFUSED THERE BOTH BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU MENTIONED THE NEIGHBOR'S FENCE AROUND HER POOL.
WELL, THAT WAS AN ISSUE RAISED BY THE ANTENNA REVIEW BOARD, AND I THINK THEY WERE CONCERNED ABOUT A CHILD GETTING IN TO THE BACKYARD, I GUESS TO SCALE THE ANTENNA.
WELL, THAT WOULD BE AS MUCH OF A CHALLENGE FOR ANYONE AS GOING TO ONE OF THE MALL PARKING LOTS AND TRYING TO SCALE ONE OF THOSE ALUMINUM TOWERS THAT HOLD THE LIGHTS UP.
IT, IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE.
BUT THE FENCING DOES PREVENT CHILDREN FROM ACCESSING THE BACKYARD UNLESS THEY REALLY WANT TO GET IN, THEN OF COURSE THEY'RE GONNA GET IN.
SO THE, THE NEIGHBOR'S PROPERTY WHERE THE SWIMMING POOL IS, IS THERE ANY FENCING THAT'S YOURS OR ANY BARRIER THAT'S YOURS AT THAT POINT? OR IS IT STRICTLY SOMETHING THAT BELONGS AND CONTROLLED BY THE NEIGHBOR? UH, IT WOULD JUST SUPPLEMENT WHAT'S ALREADY THERE.
I MEAN, I COULD CERTAINLY PUT UP MORE DEER FENCING, BUT QUITE FRANKLY, THERE'S QUITE A BIT OF VEGETATION ALONG THAT NORTH BORDER.
UH, THE DEERS HAVE NOT BEEN JUMPING OVER IT, UH, IN PART BECAUSE THERE IS SO MUCH ANCIENT, UH, VEGETATION, UH, MOSTLY ON HER SIDE OF THE FENCE.
UH, IF NEED BE, I CAN PUT UP A FENCE.
WHETHER IT'S ADDITIONAL EIGHT FOOT DEER FENCING OR AN EIGHT
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FOOT, UH, CHAIN LINK FENCE.IF THAT'S A CONDITION OF ISSUING THE SPECIAL USE PERMIT, I'M ALL FOR IT.
SO, NOT THAT THIS REALLY PERTAINS TO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO NOW, BUT WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOING ALL THIS TIME WITH RESPECT TO, UH, YOUR VENTURE, I SHOULD SAY, WITH REGARD TO THE HAM RADIO? WITHOUT THIS ANTENNA? WITHOUT, WITHOUT THE FENCING, WITHOUT THE USE OF, YEAH, WITHOUT THE USE OF THIS ANTENNA.
OH, WELL, QUITE FRANKLY, WE'VE BEEN IN A LOW SPOT IN THE SUN SPOT CYCLE, SO THERE REALLY HASN'T BEEN A LOT OF ACTIVITY.
UM, YOU KNOW, I PUT UP JUST TEMPORARY ANTENNAS THAT WERE NEVER INTENDED TO BE A PERMANENT ANTENNA, JUST TO TRY THE WATERS TO SEE IF IT MADE SENSE TO BUY THIS, UM, STEPPER IR THREE ELEMENT ANTENNA.
AND I WAS GRATIFIED TO SEE THAT IT IS EVERY BIT AS GOOD AS THE MANUFACTURER, UH, SAYS IT IS.
THIS IS A UNIQUE ANTENNA IN THAT IT DOESN'T INVOLVE FIXED LENGTH ELEMENTS.
WHAT IT DOES FOR EACH OF THE THREE ELEMENTS ON THAT, UM, ANTENNA, IT SPECIFICALLY RUNS A PIECE OF COPPER, UH, STRAPPING OUT TO THE CORRECT LENGTH TO ACCOMMODATE THE SPECIFIC FREQUENCY YOU'RE ON.
IT IS AN INCREDIBLE, INCREDIBLE, SO 100% OF YOUR RF ENERGY IS BEING DIRECTED INTO THIS ANTENNA AND OFF OVER THE AIRWAYS.
IF YOU HAVE A FIXED LENGTH ANTENNA, MOST OF THESE HAM RADIO AMATEUR ANTENNAS ARE FIXED LENGTH ALUMINUM ANTENNAS.
WELL, THE PROBLEM WITH A FIXED LENGTH ALUMINUM ANTENNA, IT'S GOOD FOR ONE FREQUENCY, ONE FREQUENCY, BUT YOU USE A NUMBER OF FREQUENCIES WITHIN THAT RANGE.
IN ORDER TO GET THE ANTENNA AS EFFICIENT AS YOU PUS, YOU HAVE TO USE SOMETHING CALLED AN ANTENNA TUNER, WHICH EITHER ADDS ADDITIONAL CAPACITANCE OR CONDUCTANCE OR A COMBINATION OF THE TWO SO THAT THE ANTENNA THINKS IT'S SEEING A HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE POWER AND IT REALLY DOESN'T.
SO IT'S JUST A FABULOUS ANTENNA AND, UH, WILL REALLY SERVE MY NEEDS VERY WELL.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION.
I ASSUME THERE'S NO ONE IN THE AUDIENCE WHO WANTED TO COMMENT ON IT.
UM, WE HAVE ONE CASE LEFT ON OUR AGENDA THIS EVENING, 2127.
NICHOLAS AND JOSEPH
HOW ARE YOU? HOPE EVERYBODY'S DOING WELL.
SO I JUST WANNA BE JUST LIKE A QUICK SUMMARY OF WHAT WE WANNA DO, JOSIE, PER, SORRY.
UM, SO OUR NEIGHBOR HAS AN INCLINING DRIVEWAY INTO THE STREET, UH, DEEP INTO OUR STREET, RIGHT.
AND THEN TWO NEIGHBORS HAVE CARPORT, CARPORTS, ONLY THREE HOUSES ON THE STREET DON'T HAVE A PLACE TO PARK.
UM, THEY PARK, THEY PARK THEIR CARS IN FRONT OF OUR HOUSE OFTEN AND MANY TIMES WE DON'T HAVE A PLACE TO PARK.
WE HAVE, WE HAVE HAD PLENTY OF CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH, WITH OUR EIGHT YEAR OLD DAUGHTER AND DELIVERY TRUCKS AND LANDSCAPERS DRIVING TOO FAST WHILE WAITING ON THE STREET TO GET INTO OUR CAR.
OUR DOG, TEDDY, WHO WILL BE 17, IS ALIVE BY A MIRACLE SINCE HE WAS STRUCK BY, UM, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THOSE DELIVERY TRUCKS BECAUSE THEY WERE GOING TOO FAST.
IN OUR NARROW, NARROW STREET, OUR CARS HAVE BEEN DENTED SCRATCH SIDES SWEPT WITH NONE OF THE, WITH NONE OF THE COMMERCIAL AND LOCAL VEHICLES TAKING ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT.
ACORNS HAVE COST THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN DAMAGES, AND WE DON'T WANT TO REMOVE TREES BECAUSE WE WANT ALL OUR EXTRA OXYGEN THAT WE CAN GET.
ADDING A GARAGE BRINGS ADDED SAFETY AND LESS PROPERTY DAMAGE TO OUR FAMILY AND CARS.
IT ALSO PROVIDES US WITH A LITTLE EXTRA STORAGE FOR OUR HEAVY SANITATION RECEPTACLES AND GARBAGE CANS THAT WE HAVE ON
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THE STREET.IN ADDITION TO THAT PART OF THE HOME IMPROVEMENTS, YOU KNOW, THE TWO THINGS THAT WE WANNA DO IS A NEW ENTRY DESIGN THAT IS VITAL TO OUR PERSONAL SAFETY AND PRIVACY COMING OUT OF THE BATHROOM.
I HAVE ENCOUNTERED THE U P S GUY LOOKING INTO OUR BATHROOM AS I'M GETTING OUT OF THE SHOWER.
'CAUSE THAT'S THE WAY THAT THE HOUSE WAS BUILT, THE WAY THE ENTRANCEWAY IS INTO OUR BEDROOMS, THAT THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS.
AND, UM, WE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO OPEN OUR HOUSE WITH OUR BEDROOM WINDOWS IN THE 14 YEARS THAT WE LIVED THERE.
UH, AND ALSO OUR DAUGHTER'S BEDROOM IS RIGHT NEXT TO IT.
THAT'S THE WAY, YOU KNOW, THE HOUSE WAS SET UP.
YOU KNOW, THE, WE BOUGHT THE HOUSE BECAUSE WE LOVED, WE CAME FROM THE CITY AND WE LOVED THE, THE VIEW IT WAS, IT WAS THE SUBURBS, BUT WE WERE NEW BUYERS AND WE DIDN'T REALIZE THAT WE WOULD HAVE THESE PROBLEMS, YOU KNOW, AND WE'VE WAITED THIS LONG BECAUSE OF MONEY REASONS TO ACTUALLY DO THESE, UH, THIS PROJECT THAT WOULD JUST BRING JUST SAFETY AND PRIVACY TO OUR LIVES.
THAT'S ALL WE WANT FOR, YOU KNOW, OUR NUCLEAR FAMILY SAFETY AND PRIVACY, AND THAT'S WHAT WE WANT.
AND THE, AND WE HAVE A, YOU KNOW, ALL OUR NEIGHBORS SUPPORT OUR, UH, YOU KNOW, PROJECT.
WE, WE HAVE THE LETTERS BECAUSE IT'S LIKE THE BASIC THING THAT WE ALL WANT IN OUR LITTLE BLOCK.
AND THE CURRENT STAIRCASE IS VERY NARROW AND RICKETY.
THAT'S PART OF THE ENTRANCEWAY AS YOU CAN SEE THAT, YOU KNOW, THE, THE END, THE MAIN STAIRS.
AND MY HUSBAND AND MY DAUGHTER, MYSELF AND A COUPLE OF DELIVERY PEOPLE HAVE SLIPPED AND FALLEN, YOU KNOW, QUITE ROUGHLY THERE, THE WAY, YOU KNOW, IT'S SET UP AND THE WAY THE STAIRS ARE.
SO THAT IS WHAT WE WANT, JUST SAFETY AND PRIVACY FOR OUR HOME.
MY NAME IS, UH, MY NAME IS ERIC DAVENPORT.
UM, NICK AND JOSIE, UM, HIRED LEAP ARCHITECTURE TO HELP THEM SOLVE SOME OF THESE ISSUES.
AND WE'VE, UH, PUT IN AN APPLICATION WITH REQUESTS FOR FIVE VARIANCES.
THERE'S, UM, THE GARAGE ITSELF THAT WOULD NEED A, A VARIANCE TO EXIST IN THE FRONT YARD.
THERE'S AN INCREASE IN THE MAXIMUM COVERAGE OF 0.4% FOR THE GARAGE TO EXIST THERE.
THERE'S ALSO A REDUCED DISTANCE FROM THE GARAGE TO THE SIDE YARD AND A REDUCED DISTANCE FROM THE GARAGE TO THE PRINCIPAL BUILDING.
ALL MAINLY FACTORS DUE TO THE SLOPING NATURE OF THE SITE AND THE MORE PROMINENT LOCATION FOR THE GARAGE.
AND AN OBVIOUS PLACE IN THE, IN THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THE PROPERTY WHEN FACING THE HOUSE FROM THE STREET.
THE ENTRYWAY, UM, ITSELF, THE NEW, THE NEW PROPOSED ENTRYWAY WOULD REQUIRE A VARIANCE FOR REDUCED FRONT YARD SETBACK.
AND WHAT I WANTED TO DO WAS JUST DISCUSS SOME OF THE EXISTING CONDITIONS TO REITERATE SOME OF THE ITEMS THAT JOSIE WAS TALKING ABOUT, AND ALSO, UM, PRESENT SOME, UM, ALTERNATIVES THAT WE'VE EXPLORED IN THE PAST AND WHERE, AND WHY WE'VE LANDED ON THE DESIGN AS WE'VE PROPOSED IT.
SO, UM, YEAH, I THINK GOING TO THE NEXT SLIDE WOULD BE GOOD.
'CAUSE THERE'S, UH, THERE'S SOME STREET CONDITIONS TO BE AWARE OF, WHICH IS GREAT BECAUSE THE, THE STREET ITSELF IS A, UH, NON-CONFORMING STREET BECAUSE OF THE DISTANCES THAT ARE, UM, BETWEEN CURBS GOING ACROSS THE WIDTH OF THE STREETS TO ALLOW FOR ON ROAD PARKING IN THE PAST.
UM, WHICH IS WHY, YOU KNOW, THIS PORTION OF THE ROAD HAS A LOT OF, UM, ON CAR, YOU KNOW, UH, UH, STREET CARS, GARBAGE CANS, SCOOTERS, ET CETERA, THAT ARE PILED ON THE SIDES OF THE ROADS.
UM, AND THEN THERE'S ALSO THE REDUCTION OF THE YARDS OF THE HOUSES, BECAUSE IF YOU LOOK AT A JOHNNY PROPERTIES, THERE'S, YOU KNOW, UH, GARAGES OR OTHER STRUCTURES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT HAVE, UM, PARKING ACCESS RIGHT UP TO THE CURB.
AND WE'LL GET TO THOSE IN A MOMENT.
UM, AND ON THE NEXT SLIDE, THERE'S, UM, JUST THE EXISTING CONDITIONS OF THE HOUSE ITSELF WHERE THE VALLEY OF THE ROOF DUMPS ONTO THE ENTRY STAIRWAY.
SO THERE'S, YOU KNOW, A CONSTANT MAINTENANCE ISSUE OF WATER, SNOW, AND ICE.
DEGRADING STAIRS, OF COURSE, UM, ARE, UM, KIND OF A NIGHTMARE FOR THE MAIN FOCUS OF, OR THE MAIN ENTRY INTO THE, INTO THE RESIDENCE.
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STAIR CIRCULATION PATHS ARE ALSO LONG AND STEEP WITHOUT A BREAK FOR A LANDING, UM, WHICH IS ALSO SOMEWHAT HAZARDOUS.SO SOME OF THE REASONS WHY, UM, THE PRECIOUS FAMILY APPROACHED US AS A FIRM IN PARTICULAR IS BECAUSE WE FOCUS ON, UH, THE SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELLNESS OF GROWING FAMILIES THROUGHOUT THEIR DECADES IN A LIVING ENVIRONMENT.
AND, UM, WE DO THIS FOR INTERGENERATIONAL LIVING WITH PURPOSE AND A LITTLE BIT MORE DIFFERENTLY THAN OTHER FIRMS DO.
WE ACTUALLY POP, YOU KNOW, UH, WORK ON PROJECTS TOGETHER TO COME UP WITH DESIGN STRATEGIES TO SUPPORT THE PHYSICAL, COGNITIVE, AND SOCIAL WELLNESS SO PEOPLE THROUGH THEIR DECADES AS THOSE NEEDS CHANGE.
ONE OF THE PRIMARY STRATEGIES IN MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE CAN STAY IN THEIR COMMUNITIES THAT THEY'VE INVESTED IN FOR SO LONG THROUGHOUT THEIR LIVES IS KEEPING THEM IN THEIR HOMES AS LONG AS POSSIBLE.
THE PRIMARY DESIGN STRATEGY TO DO THAT IS TO CREATE A SAFE ENTRY AND EXIT INTO THE RESIDENCE.
SO THE DESIGN DECISIONS THAT WE'VE LANDED ON INCLUDE THE GARAGE TO PROTECT, UM, YOU KNOW, THE, THE VEHICLES AND ALSO ENTERING AND EXITING VEHICLES ON THE STREET.
AND GETTING THAT ACTIVITY TO OCCUR INSIDE OF A PROTECTED ZONE IS REALLY IMPORTANT.
AND ALSO RECONFIGURING THE ENTRY HA OF THE FRONT, UH, DOOR SO THAT SNOW AND ICE WOULD NO LONGER LAND RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE MAIN ENTRY OF THE HOUSE, AND ENCLOSE THAT WITH A NEWLY PROPOSED STRUCTURE TO INCREASE THE LONGEVITY OF THAT, UH, ENTRY SEQUENCE INTO THE FLOORS OF THE MAIN BUILDING.
UM, CAN WE GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE? SO THOSE EXISTING CONDITIONS ARE SHOWN HERE, UM, JUST QUICKLY.
THERE'S, YOU KNOW, THE LONG STAIRS, THE LONG STAIR RUNS.
UM, YOU CAN SEE THE, THE RIGHT HAND CORNER OF THE HOUSE IS GONNA BE WHERE THERE'S A, UH, PROPOSED GARAGE STRUCTURE.
IT'S, IT'S, THERE'S A, A DECK TO THE RIGHT OF THE HOUSE AND YOU CAN SEE THE TWO BEDROOMS IN THE FRONT STRUCTURE WHERE THE EXISTING STAIRWAY GOES UP INTO THE FRONT DOOR.
UM, WHICH IS AGAIN, YOU KNOW, THAT'S, THAT'S A PRIVACY ISSUE THAT WE'RE TRYING TO MITIGATE AS WELL.
UM, SO THE NEXT SLIDE IS SHOWING A, UM, I'LL KEEP ON GOING TO THE NEXT ONE.
THERE'S A PROPOSED PLAN HERE, AND THIS IS THE, THE OVERALL PLAN, PLAN OF THE ENTIRE SITE, UM, WITH THE EXISTING STRUCTURE GRAY OUT IN THE MIDDLE, AND THEN THE PROPOSED WORK BEING, YOU KNOW, IN DARKER INK AND THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE IS BLOWN UP ON THE NEXT SLIDE, SO WE CAN SEE IT A LITTLE BIT BETTER.
AND THAT HAS THE GARAGE IN THE LOWER EIGHT HAND CORNER WITH A NEW ENTRYWAY AND STAIRCASE AT THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE WITH, UM, A MORE SAFELY LAID OUT ENTRY SEQUENCE UP INTO THE FRONT DOOR FROM THE GARAGE IN THE STREET.
UM, UH, I THINK IT'S GOOD JUST FOR A PAUSE, JUST FOR ANY QUICK QUESTIONS BEFORE I MOVE ON TO SEE IF THAT'S ALL CLEAR.
AS FAR AS THE EXISTING STRUCTURE, WHAT'S PROPOSED, IT GOES FROM WHERE TO WHERE, SAY THAT IT SAYS NEW STAIR.
WHAT, WHERE DOES THAT GO? THAT GOES FROM A ENTRY PATIO UP TO THE EXISTING DECK.
SO THERE'S AN EXISTING DECK STAIR THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE REMOVED AND RECONFIGURED TO GET DOWN TO THE NEW ENTRY BECAUSE THE GARAGE WOULD ENCROACH ON THAT EXISTING STEPS AND THAT PATIO AREA IS THERE.
JUST MAKE SURE THAT ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? NO, THERE IT GOES RIGHT INTO THE GARAGE.
SO YOU PARK YOUR CAR, YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE ON THE STREET AND YOU GO UP THE STEPS.
YEAH, I MEAN THE, YEAH, THE POINT, THE POINT OF HAVING THE GARAGE THERE IS TO BE ABLE TO GET, YOU KNOW, VEHICLE ACCESS OUT OF THE STREET ZONE, OUT OF THE LINE OF TRAFFIC SO THAT WE CAN GO DIRECTLY UP THE STAIRS INTO THE HOUSE, YOU KNOW, SO NO ONE'S EVER IN THE, IN THE DANGER ZONE OF THE, OF THE ACTUAL ROAD AND TRAFFIC TO GET IN AND OUT OF THE, THE MAIN STRUCTURE.
AND BASED ON THE TOPOGRAPHY, WHAT IS UNDER THE DECK? IS THAT BRANDED OR IS IT EARTH LEDGE ROCK LEDGE ROCK? NO, THERE'S THERE, THE STOVE IS THE SLOPING, UM, IS REALLY STEEP IN THE BACK.
UH, IT FLATTENS OUT FOR WHERE THE HOUSE IS AND THEN BECOMES STEEPER AGAIN.
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FOOT, THERE'S ABOUT A 10 FOOT DROP BETWEEN, WELL, THE MAIN, THE MAIN, THERE'S A BASEMENT LEVEL OF THE HOUSE AND THEN THE STREET, THERE'S A 10 FOOT DIFFERENCE AND THEN ANOTHER 10 FEET UP TO THE MAIN LEVEL.SO THERE'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, A GOOD 18 FEET PLUS OR MINUS FROM THE MAIN LIVING FLOOR TO THE STREET AND ONLY ABOUT 25 FEET TO THE ROAD.
SO WE'VE, WE HAVE LOOKED AT PUTTING THE GARAGE BACK AND BACK BACK AND I THINK, AND I DON'T KNOW WHO IT IS, ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE BOARD MEMBERS, I THINK EITHER IN THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT OR IN THE Z B A WENT OUT TO THE SITE AND ACTUALLY RECOMMENDED THAT WE PUT THE GARAGE NEXT TO THE HOUSE TO, UM, REMOVE ONE OF THE VARIANCE REQUESTS.
UM, WE ACTUALLY LOOKED AT THAT AS A DESIGN SOLUTION FROM THE GET-GO AND FOUND THAT THE STEEPNESS OF THE DRIVEWAY TO GET UP INTO THE GARAGE WOULD PROHIBIT THAT.
LIKE IT WOULD BE A 45 DEGREE ANGLE, LIKE AN 80 TO 90 DEGREE SLOPE MAXIMUM FOR A SAFE CAR TRAVELING IS 20 DEGREES.
SO IT'D BE OVER DOUBLE THE AMOUNT OF A SAFE.
NO, THAT'S WHY I WAS ASKING WHAT WAS BEHIND IT.
IF YOU DID STAY AT ROAD LEVEL, BUT THEN JUST TOOK THAT BACK TOWARDS THE DECK, I'M NOT SAYING RAISE IT UP, GO STRAIGHT BACK.
BUT YOU'RE SAYING THAT THERE'S A, A LEDGE THERE, A GRANITE LEDGE OR THERE'S LEDGE ROCK UNDER THE DECK.
YEAH, AND WE MOVED IT BACK AS FAR AS THE GUY'S RECOMMENDATION TO OFF THE STREET, NOT RAISE IT UP, BUT KEEP LEVEL WITH THE STREET AND JUST GO STRAIGHT BACK.
WE MOVED THIS BACK TWO AND A HALF.
AND WE DID, YEAH, THE FIRST SUBMISSION THAT WE DID MAKE TO THE, UM, DEPARTMENT DID HAVE THE GARAGE, LIKE RIGHT ON THE FRONT PROPERTY LINE.
AND ONE OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS THE BOARD MADE WAS TO MOVE IT BACK OFF OF THE PROPERTY LINE AS FAR AS THAT LEDGE, ROCK AND DECK AND CIRCULATION PATH WOULD ALLOW.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, GIVING US SOME DISTANCE THERE, IS THAT THE RESULTING TWO FOOT FORWARD TO GET IT BACK AS FAR AS WE COULD.
IF IT GOES BACK FARTHER, UM, IT'S GONNA PROHIBIT CIRCULATION FROM THE DECK TO THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE.
IT'S GONNA, WHAT IT'S GONNA PROHIBIT CIRCULATION TO THE DECK IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE AND FROM THE DECK TO THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE.
AND ALSO, UM, ROCK LEDGE ISSUES OF COURSE WOULD BE THERE.
AND THEN THE STEEPNESS OF THE DRIVEWAY ISSUE COMES INTO PLAY.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? THE NEXT, THE NEXT SLIDE WAS JUST A COMPILATION OF SOME PHOTOS OF THE STREET CONDITIONS THAT, UM, SOME PREVIOUS, UH, REQUESTS FROM THE DEPARTMENT, UM, TO SHOW HOW THE, HERE STAY OPEN THE PICTURES JUST FOR A SECOND.
SO THE RIGHT, THE RIGHT HAND SIDE IS A CAR PARKING, LIKE BASICALLY JUST SHOWING THE RADIUS OF A CAR BEING ABLE TO PARK IN THE GARAGE FROM THE STREET WITHOUT ENCROACHING ON, YOU KNOW, TRAFFIC COMING EITHER WAY.
SO THERE'S ROOM, THERE'S ROOM TO PULL INTO THE GARAGE EVEN THOUGH THE GARAGE IS CLOSE TO THE CLOSE TO THE CURB.
NOW THAT CAR THAT IS PARKED THAT WAY, IS THAT HOW PEOPLE NORMALLY PARK PERPENDICULAR TO THE SIDE? NO, THAT'S, THAT'S THE EXAMPLE AS IF IT WAS PULLING INTO THE PROPOSED GARAGE TO SHOW THAT THERE'S ROOM, EVEN WITH BIKES ON THE BACK, YOU KNOW, TO GET IN AND OUT OF THAT GARAGE SPACE ON THAT STREET AS IT EXISTS NOW WITH OTHER CARS PARKED THERE.
THAT CAR, THAT CAR IS NOT NORMALLY THERE.
WE JUST TRIED TO MAKE THE MOST OBSTACLES AS POSSIBLE TO SHOW THAT EVEN WITH AS MANY CARS ON THE STREET, THAT WE COULD FIT A CAR WITH A BIKE RACK AT THE END.
A TRUCK WITH A BIKE RACK AT THE END OF IT STILL HAS FOUR FEET BEFORE IT EVEN GETS TO A CAR PARKED ON THE STREET.
SO, AND IT'S PULLED UP RIGHT AGAINST THE WALL WITHIN THE FOOT AND THE GARAGE WOULD BE AN ADDITIONAL TWO AND A HALF FEET BACK FROM, WELL, THREE AND A HALF FEET BACK FROM WHERE YOU SEE THE FRONT OF THE TRUCK, THE RIGHT HAND PICTURE.
BUT THE ACTUAL PUBLIC ROAD IS AT THE FRONT OF THE CAR THAT IS PERPENDICULAR.
THE ACTUAL PUBLIC ROAD IS UP TO WHERE THE WALL IS THAT THAT CAR IS FACING.
SO THAT'S A TRICKY QUESTION BECAUSE WHEN THE HOUSES WERE BUILT ON THE LEFT SIDE WHERE MY HOUSE IS, OKAY, THERE'S NO STREET PARKING.
SO NOW IF YOU LOOK ON THE LEFT SLIDE, YOU SEE THE STAIRS.
MY NEIGHBOR HAS A DRIVEWAY THAT'S 11 FEET INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD, 11 FEET.
SO NOW THE 32 AND A HALF FEET WIDE WHERE THAT SILVER CAR IS RIGHT.
YOU COULD, CAN YOU REWIND THE SLIDE A LITTLE BIT? IT'S 1929.
THERE'S A PICTURE WITH A PURPLE UH, LINE, WHICH IS, WE'LL ADDRESS THIS.
SO NOW YOU LOOK AT THE WIDTH OF THE STREET.
THE REASON WHY IT'S SO WIDE THERE IS BECAUSE MY HOUSE DOESN'T HAVE STREET PARKING.
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I MEAN OFF STREET PARKING.WHAT PART OF THIS IS THE LEGAL PUBLIC ROAD? OKAY, IT'S A PRIVATE ROAD.
IT'S A PRIVATE ROAD THAT THE TOWN OF GREENBURG DOES NOT OWN.
THAT WE OWN IT SOMEWHERE OR THAT NEIGHBOR OWNS IT OR SOMEBODY OWNS IT.
BUT WE DON'T KNOW WHO, BUT IT'S NOT THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.
PAUL FINER TOLD US THAT IN AN EMAIL,
IT'S THE MOST CRAZY THING I'VE EVER HEARD.
BUT, UM, THAT JUST SEEMS THE WAY IT IS.
BUT, UM, WHEN WE, OH, YOU KNOW WHAT I HAVE, I HAVE A STREET DIAGRAM THAT I KIND OF DOODLED.
LIKE GIVE, I'M JUST LOOKING AT IT.
IT DOES APPEAR TO ME THAT IF IT WAS A PRIVATE ROAD, THAT, THAT EXTRA PORTION FROM THE 21.5, THAT 32, IF YOU TAKE THAT LITTLE PORTION OUT WHERE THE PERSON'S DRIVEWAY IS TO THE LEFT OF THE LEFT PHOTOGRAPH WAS CREATED FOR THE SAID PURPOSE, AS YOU SAID, TO HAVE SOME OFF STREET PARKING.
SO AT SOME POINT IN THE DELIBERATION AND DESIGN OF THIS, THEY MOVED IT BACK CORRECT.
BUT YOU DON'T, THEY TOOK AWAY THE PROPERTY AS FAR AS, YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T OWN ANY FURTHER THAN WHERE YOU SAID THE PROPERTY LINE IN THE LAST DRAWING.
WELL, THAT'S A TRICK QUESTION,
BUT I MIGHT, I MIGHT OWN THE STREET.
BUT I THINK THE MAIN THING IS I WANTED TO BRING A DIAGRAM THAT I DREW THAT I THINK WOULD ADDRESS WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW.
UM, SINCE THIS IS A, A THING AND I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE IT TO YOU GUYS AGAIN.
I DID THIS TODAY, SO LEMME JUST END IT UP TO YOU.
DO WE HAVE ONE WE CAN PUT UP ON THE SCREEN? NO.
ANYBODY ELSE ALL? SO I'M GONNA WALK YOU THROUGH THIS ONE REAL QUICK.
SO IT SAYS SPRINGWOOD AVENUE, STRAIGHTWAY FACING YOU.
ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD IS ARDSLEY TOWN VILLAGE STREET.
IT GOES FROM 19 TO 20 FEET WIDE.
AS SOON AS YOU GET INTO THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, YOU GUYS ROLLED ON A, UM, VARIANCE FOR KAUFMAN LAST SESSION TO EXPAND THE STREET TO A AMOUNT THAT I DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT YOU DECIDED ON, BUT RIGHT THERE AT BOTTLENECKS AT 13 FEET, EIGHT AND A HALF INCHES, RIGHT? AS IT GOES IN A LITTLE BIT DOWN TOWARDS THE MIDDLE OF THE KAUFMAN RESIDENCE, IT EXPANDS THE 20 FEET WIDE WHERE THERE ARE CARS THAT PARK THERE DAILY FROM THE TOWN OF THE, THE VILLAGE OF ARDSLEY, ALL THOSE HOUSES THERE, SOME OF THOSE GUYS PARK THERE AS WE GO DOWN TO 21 SPRINGWOOD, WHICH IS MY DIRECT NEIGHBOR TO MY RIGHT, HER PROPERTY IS REDUCED, HER FRONT OF HER PROPERTY IS REDUCED TO MAKE WAY FOR HER CAR PARKING.
SO IF YOU KEPT THAT 20 FEET DOWN AND SHE HAD A GARAGE, HER PROPERTY WOULD BE WHERE THAT DOTTED LINE IS.
SO EVEN THOUGH MY GARAGE THAT IS BEING PROPOSED IS ONLY TWO AND A HALF FEET OFF THE STREET, IF YOU USE THAT LINE, IT'S NINE FEET, IT'S NINE FEET BACK FROM THAT LINE.
SO IF WE REVERSED WHAT THEY DID 50 YEARS AGO, WHENEVER THEY REDUCE THE PROPERTY AND INCREASE THE SIZE OF THE STREET, THE GARAGE IS REALLY NINE FEET BACK.
SO I THINK THAT'S WHAT, MAYBE IF I'M MISUNDERSTANDING, I THINK THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO GET.
NOPE, THAT'S, THAT'S THE DIRECTION I WAS TRYING TO GO IN.
SO THAT'S WHY, I MEAN THIS JUST IN CASE THAT'S HELPFUL, WHAT IS IT THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT? BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW OF ANY TIME THAT WE'VE APPROVED ON TREE GARAGES TO COME DIRECTLY ONTO THE ROADWAY SO THAT THAT'S QUESTION THAT WE, THAT NEEDS TO BE RESOLVED AT SOME POINT AS TO WHERE THE ROAD IS AND RIGHT.
SO WE MOVED IT BACK TWO AND A HALF FEET WHERE THAT WALL IS.
SO NOT ONLY IS IT THAT, UH, SIX AND A HALF FEET BACK, BUT TWO AND A HALF ADDITIONAL FEET.
AND WHERE I GOT THE IDEA WAS FROM TWO PROPERTIES THAT WERE DIRECTLY DOWNHILL FROM ME IN EUCLID AVENUE, SEVERAL ON ASHFORD AVENUE.
AND I COULD PROBABLY GIVE YOU ANOTHER 20 IF YOU GIMME ANOTHER MINUTE, I WILL.
I'LL FIND THEM FOR YOU NO PROBLEM.
SO THAT ARE RIGHT OFF THE STREET AND WE HAVE PICTURES OF THOSE.
AND I THINK THE NEXT SLIDE IS A COUPLE MORE.
AND THAT WAS JUST LIKE, KIND OF JUST LIKE A BRIEF, JUST TO GIVE AN IDEA OF TYPE OF THINGS.
I COULD GIVE LIKE 30 OF THOSE PICTURES.
ANY QUESTIONS
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TWO.WE'RE ADDING TWO TREES BECAUSE WE LIKE TREES AND WE LIKE OXYGEN AND WE'RE NATURE FIRST PEOPLE.
SO, AND THAT'S WHY WE HIRED HIM.
SO THAT'S A BIG, THERE ARE OTHER THINGS THAT THEY'RE DOING FOR THE ENVIRONMENT IN THE PROJECT.
UH, ALL OUR NEIGHBORS SUPPORT OUR PROJECT.
EVERY BORDERING NEIGHBOR, I HAVE LETTERS THAT ARE THERE FOUR LETTERS.
THE LETTERS WERE PRETTY PROMISING.
I DON'T KNOW IF THE BOARD MEMBERS HAD A CHANCE TO READ THEM, BUT THEY, WE, WE, WE PLAN TO STAY.
WE'RE NOT RENTING, WE'RE NOT SELLING.
I THINK YOU'VE FULLY EXPLAINED IT TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND IT.
AND SINCE WE HAVE HIT THE BE WITCHING HOUR, UNLESS YOU HAVE SOMETHING ELSE THAT YOU WANT TO ADD, WE ARE GOING TO, UM, ADJOURN SO THAT WE CAN START SOME DELIBERATIONS.
ONE MORE THING WITH THE, THE, THE GARAGE BORDERING NEIGHBOR, UM, I WORKED WITH HIM TO HELP DESIGN THE GARAGE AND PROPOSED THE PUSH BACK THE GARAGE IDEA.
AND HE DIDN'T LIKE IT BECAUSE HE WOULD BE LOOKING AT 12 FOOT RETAINING WALLS GOING ALL THE WAY BACK.
AND THAT'S AFTER YOU DESTROY THE EARTH TO CREATE HOW MANY TONS OF DEBRIS TO DO THAT.
MY WIFE CHATTED ME WHEN I GOT BACK.
OH, I THINK WE NEED TO ANNOUNCE YOU
YOU'RE NOT ON, THERE'S NOT SOMETHING YOU NEED TO SAY.
IT'S JUST THAT I WELL, YOU CAN'T DO IT OFF.
YOU CAN'T DO IT OFF MIC AND YOU'D HAVE TO IDENTIFY YOURSELF.
WELL, I'M SORRY, I'M PETER STRATUS.
JUST TRYING TO CONCLUDE CASE 21, 25, RIGHT? YES.
BESIDES A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT THAT YOU LEFT ON THE FLOOR, WHICH YOU NOW HAVE
SO WHAT IS THE COMMENT THAT GOES WITH IT? WELL, MY WIFE REMINDED ME THAT I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT WE'VE SPOKEN TO BOTH OF OUR NEIGHBORS ON THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH, AND THEY BOTH HAVE NO OBJECTION.
ACTUALLY, THE SOUTH NEIGHBORS WERE HERE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE, YOU TOLD US THAT I BELIEVE THE HOUR.
AND I DID HEAR WHEN SHE WAS REMINDING YOU
I I GOT FIVE OUTTA MY WAIT, WAIT.
WE DON'T, YOU HAVE TO IDENTIFY YOURSELF.
NICHOLAS ES 23 SPRINGWOOD AVENUE REGARDING THE VARIANCES FOR GARAGE AND ENTRANCEWAY.
UM, I HAVE, UH, FIVE OUTTA SIX HOUSES, UH, FOUR HOUSES, WHICH ARE BORDERING MY HOUSE.
AND THE NEW ONE, UH, JUST MOVED IN AND SHE WAS KIND OF BUSY DOING HER OWN THING.
SO, YOU KNOW, UH, WE, WE HAVE ALL THE SUPPORT OF ANYONE INVOLVED BUT LIKE, ALMOST A HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE WHOLE BLOCK, LIKE SO BEYOND OUR, OUR NEIGHBORS.
AND WITH THAT WE ARE ADJOURNED FOR DELIBERATIONS.
YOU CAN OH MY, YOU CAN JOIN US, BUT BE QUIET PLEASE.
WE DON'T HAVE ONE SECRET AROUND HERE.
ALRIGHT, WE ARE BACK ON THE RECORD WITH UH, A VERY ABBREVIATED UM, AND I AND I AND I AND I THANK THE BOARD FOR COMING TO SOME QUICK CONCLUSIONS ON CASES.
BECAUSE OF THE TIME AND THE TIME CONSTRAINTS WE HAVE, WE ARE NOT ABLE TO WRITE UP ALL OF OUR DECISIONS, UH, FINDINGS AT THIS POINT.
HOWEVER WE ARE ABLE TO VOTE AND THAT IS WHAT WE ARE GOING TO DO.
IT IS ADJOURNED FOR ALL PURPOSES TO THE MEETING OF OCTOBER 21ST.
NEXT CASE IS CASE 21, 20 B S C UH, L L C AND CASE 21.
BOTH ARE REGENER AND PROPERTIES.
UM, AND WHEREAS SEEKER CONFIDING IT'S A HAVE TO DO.
IS IT? I KNOW UNCLASSIFIED WITH RESPECT TO SEEKER, IT'S A NEGATIVE DECLARATION BY THE TOWN BOARD AS PART OF A COORDINATED REVIEW FOR BOTH.
WHEREAS THE GREENBERG, UH, TOWN BOARD HAS CONSIDERED THE SEEKER
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FOR THIS IS CASE NUMBER 2120 AND WHEREAS THE NEGATIVE DECLARATION HAS BEEN MADE BY THE TOWN BOARD, NO FURTHER SECRET CONSIDERATIONS.NO, NO, I KNOW YOU I DIDN'T NEED A YES NO SHE SAID, SHE SAID AYE.
SHOULD WE RAISE OUR HANDS?
I MOVE THAT THE APPLICATION IN CASE NUMBER 21 DASH 20 BE GRANTED.
PROVIDED THAT ONE, THE APPLICANT OBTAINS ALL NECESSARY APPROVALS AND FILES THE SAME WITH THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT.
TWO CONSTRUCTION BEGINS NO LATER THAN 12 MONTHS AFTER THE GRANTING OF THE, THE LAST APPROVAL REQUIRED FOR THE ISSUANCE OF A BUILDING PERMIT PROCEEDS DILIGENTLY THEREAFTER IN CONFORMITY WITH THE PLANS DATED JULY 2ND, JULY 2ND, SUBMITTED IN SUPPORT OF THIS APPLICATION OR SUCH PLANS MAY BE HEREAFTER MODIFIED BY ANOTHER APPROVING BOARD OR AGENCY OR OFFICER OF THE TOWN.
PROVIDED THAT SUCH MODIFICATION DOES NOT REQUIRE DIFFERENT OR GREATER VARIANCE THAN THAT WHICH WE ARE GRANTING HEREIN.
AND THREE, THE VARIANCE IS BEING GRANTED IN THE IMPROVE IS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT SHOWN IN THE PLAN SUBMITTED IN SUPPORT OF THIS APPLICATION ONLY.
ANY FURTHER OR ADDITIONAL CONSTRUCTION THAT IS NOT IN CONFORMITY WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE ZONING ORDINANCE SHALL REQUIRE VARIANCES.
EVEN IF THAT, EVEN IF THE CONSTRUCTION CONFORMS TO THE HEIGHT AND SETBACKS OR ALL THE VARIANCES.
WE ARE HAVE, WE HAVE HERE WE HAVE APPROVED HEREIN.
SORRY, I DON'T HAVE MY GLASSES.
AND WITH RESPECT TO FINDINGS, WE ARE NOT GOING TO READ THOSE AGAIN DUE TO THE LATENESS OF THE HOUR.
HOWEVER, THAT INFORMATION WILL BE INSERTED IN THE RECORD.
I WROTE MINE UNLESS YOU WANT ME TO READ THEM.
AND THE NEXT CASE IS CASE 2120.
AND WHEREAS THE GREENBERG Z B A 21 21, 21 21 THANK YOU, HAS UH, REVIEWED THE ABOVE-REFERENCED APPLICATION WITH REGARD TO SECRET COMPLIANCE AND WHEREAS THE TOWN BOARD HAS DETERMINED, HAS MADE A NEGATIVE DECLARATION AND THEREFORE THERE ARE NO FURTHER SECRET CONSIDERATIONS NOW THEREFORE BE RESOLVED THAT THE SUBJECT APPLICATION IS, REQUIRES NO FURTHER SECRET CONSIDERATION.
AND DO I HAVE A MOTION? YES, MADAM CHAIR.
I MOVE THAT APPLICA, I MOVE THAT THE APPLICATION IN CASE NUMBER 21 DASH 21 BE GRANTED.
WAIT, WE'RE JUST VOTING ON THE SECRET FIRST.
AND DO NOW DO I HAVE A MOTION? YES, MADAM CHAIR.
I MOVE THAT THE APPLICATION IN CASE NUMBER 21 DASH 21 BE GRANTED.
PROVIDED THAT ONE, THE APPLICANT OBTAINS ALL NECESSARY APPROVALS AND FILES THE SAME WITH THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT.
TWO CONSTRUCTION BEGINS NO LATER THAN 12 MONTHS AFTER THE GRANTING OF THE LAST APPROVAL REQUIRED FOR THE ISSUANCE OF A BUILDING PERMIT PROCEEDS DILIGENTLY THEREAFTER IN CONFORMITY WITH THE PLANS DATED JULY JUNE 15TH, JUNE 15TH, 2021.
2021 SUBMITTED IN SUPPORT OF THIS APPLICATION OR AS SUCH, PLANS MAY, MAY BE HEREAFTER MODIFIED BY ANOTHER APPROVING BOARD OR AGENCY OR OFFICER OF THE TOWN.
PROVIDED THAT SUCH MODIFICATION DOES NOT REQUIRE A DIFFERENT OR GREATER VARIANCE THAN WHAT WE ARE GRANTING HEREIN.
AND NUMBER THREE, THE VARIANCE BEING GRANTED IS FOR THE IMPROVEMENTS SHOWN IN THE PLAN SUBMITTED IN SUPPORT OF THIS APPLICATION ONLY.
ANY FURTHER ADDITION ADDITIONAL CONSTRUCTION THAT IS NOT IN CONFORMITY WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE ZONING ORDINANCE SHALL REQUIRE VARIANCES EVEN IF THE CONSTRUCTION CONFORMS TO THE HEIGHT, SETBACKS, OR OTHER VARIANCES WE HAVE APPROVED HEREIN.
AND THE NEXT CASE IS CASE 2122.
AND WHEREAS THE GREENBERG Z B A HAS REVIEWED THE ABOVE-REFERENCED APPLICATION WITH REGARD TO C A COMPLIANCE AND WHEREAS THE GREENBERG Z B A HAS DETERMINED THE APPLICATION WILL NOT HAVE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE SUBJECT APPLICATION IS A TYPE TWO ACTION REQUIRING MORE FURTHER THE SECRET CONSIDERATION.
AND WITH RESPECT TO THE REMAINING CASES WE DO NOT
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HAVE, WE'LL DO THE MOTION.AND YOU JUST SAY THE CASE NUMBER.
I MOVE THAT THE APPLICATION IN CASE 2122 BE GRANTED PROVIDED THAT THE APPLICA APPLICANT OBTAINS ALL NECESSARY APPROVALS AND FILES.
SAME WITH THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT.
CONSTRUCTION BEGINS NO LATER THAN 12 MONTHS AFTER THE GRANTING OF THE LAST APPROVAL REQUIRED FOR THE DATE FOR THE ISSUANCE OF A BUILDING PERMIT PROCEEDS DILIGENTLY THEREAFTER IN CONFORMITY WITH THE PLANS DATED UH, FEBRUARY 29TH, UH, 2021 SUBMITTED IN SUPPORT OF THIS APPLICATION.
OR AS SUCH, PLANS MAY BE HEREAFTER MODIFIED BY ANOTHER APPROVING BOARD OR AGENCY OR OFFICER OF THE TOWN.
PROVIDED THAT SUCH MODIFICATION DOES NOT REQUIRE A DIFFERENT OR GREATER VARIANCE THAN WHAT WE ARE HERE GRANTING HEREIN.
AND THE VARIANCE BEING GRANTED IS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT SHOWN ON THE PLAN SUBMITTED IN SUPPORT OF THIS APPLICATION.
ANY FUTURE OR ADDITIONAL CONSTRUCTION THAT IS NOT IN CONFORMITY WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE ZONING OR ORDINANCE SHALL REQUIRE VARIANCES EVEN IF THE CONSTRUCTION CONFORMS TO THE HEIGHT, SETBACKS, OR OTHER VARIANTS WE HAVE APPROVED HEREIN.
AND AGAIN, THE FINDINGS WILL BE INSERTED IN THE RECORD AND THE NEXT CASE IS CASE 2123.
UM, THAT IS ADJOURN FOR PURPOSES TO OCTOBER 21ST AND THE NEXT CASE IS 2124.
PROPERTY AT FIVE DRESLER AVENUE.
AND WHEREAS THE GREENBERG Z B A HAS REVIEWED THE ABOVE-REFERENCED APPLICATION WITH REGARD TO C COMPLIANCE AND WHEREAS THE GREENBERG Z B A HAS DETERMINED THE APPLICATION WILL NOT HAVE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE SUBJECT APPLICATION IS A TYPE TWO ACTION REQUIRING NO FURTHER SECRET, SECRET CONSIDERATION.
CAN I JUST BORROW? THANK YOU
UM, I MOVE THAT THE APPLICATION IN CASE NUMBER 2124 BE GRANTED PROVIDED THAT THE APPLICANT OBTAINS ALL NECESSARY APPROVALS AND FILES, SAME WITH THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT.
CONSTRUCTION BEGINS NO LATER THAN 12 MONTHS AFTER THE GRANTING OF THE LAST APPROVAL REQUIRED FOR THE ISSUANCE OF A BUILDING PERMIT PROCEEDS DILIGENTLY THEREAFTER IN CONFORMITY WITH THE PLANS DATED JUNE 28TH, 2021 SUBMITTED IN SUPPORT OF THIS APPLICATION OR AS SUCH, PLANS MAY BE HEREAFTER MODIFIED BY ANOTHER APPROVING BOARD OR AGENCY OR OFFICER OF THE TOWN.
PROVIDED THAT SUCH MODIFICATION DOES NOT REQUIRE A GREATER, A DIFFERENT OR GREATER VARIANCE THAN WHAT WE ARE GRANTING HEREIN AND THE VARIANCE IS BEING GRANTED OR FOR THE IMPROVEMENTS SHOWN ON THE PLAN SUBMITTED IN SUPPORT OF THIS APPLICATION.
ANY FUTURE OR ADDITIONAL CONSTRUCTION THAT IS NOT IN CONFORMITY WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE ZONING ORDINANCE SHALL REQUIRE VARIANCES EVEN IF THE CONSTRUCTION CONFORMS TO THE HEIGHT, SETBACKS, OR OTHER VARIANCES WE HAVE APPROVED HEREIN.
AND AGAIN, THOSE FINDINGS WILL BE INSERTED IN THE RECORD.
THAT IS ADJOURNED FOR ALL PURPOSES TO THE MEETING OF OCTOBER 21ST.
AND FINALLY, THE CASE 2127 ALSO IS ADJOURNED FOR ALL PURPOSES TO THE MEETING OF OCTOBER 21ST.
AND WITH THAT I APPLAUD THAT WE DID A GREAT JOB TONIGHT UNDER DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES.
UM, MY UNDERSTANDING HOWEVER, IS THAT THE NEXT MEETING OF THE BOARD WILL BE AGAIN GOING BACK TO A VIRTUAL MEETING SO WE WILL NOT BE GATHERING IN TOWN HALL.
AND THEREFORE THAT SHOULD MAKE IT EASIER FOR EVERYONE HOPEFULLY TO BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE, TO SEE WHAT'S GOING ON AND ALSO TO HOPEFULLY DEAL WITH THE WEATHER THAT WE SEE IS COMING UP UPON US CONSTANTLY.
AND WITH THAT, I WISH YOU ALL FAIR, FAIR.
NO MORE RAIN,