I guess we're starting now mov along thank you very much good evening everyone and welcome to the board of adjustment Township of Berkeley Heights we're located at 29 Park Avenue here in Berkeley Heights this is our public meeting this evening it's January 23rd
2025 we have 700 p.m. on the clock please note that this meeting is being held in conformance with all regulations of the open public meetings act adequate notice for the meeting has been posted on the town website and sent to the newspapers of record the agenda has been posted on the town website and the
bulleon board fronting Town Hall a minimum of 48 hours in advance of the meeting the agenda items will not necessarily be heard in the order listed and the meeting will not continue so substantially past 10:30 p.m. virina May I have a roll call for 25 Please Mr
Sullivan yes kobell here Mr deia here Mr Ringwood here Mr Sylvester here Mr Pera here miss West Augustine Mr Degan here Mr chazars Miss wolf
here I'd just like to reflect the oath of public officers uh Brian Degan alternate number one has has been extended for a 2-year term through 12326 so welcome back Brian thank you for your service uh let's move on to some of our
housek caping the adoption of minutes from January 9th 25 this was the reorg Mr Sylvester did you have an opportunity to review the minutes I did and I found them to be in order I make a motion we accept that thank you m second by Mr
have one change yes on page two it says Amanda wolf of the firm of post it should be Dempsey Dy and I think um oh you got that was gonna change we thank you I DDS before she sent it out no worries Mr per have a second I second
the motion all in favor on the minutes and the resolutions applications 2415 this is 735 Springfield Avenue uh we are fine-tuning that resolution and it will
probably be available for the next meeting and we meet on February 27 February 27th okay moving on to our applications this evening we have three on the docket they will be heard in this order we have
20 Overhill way in the first position Conor Ville in the second position and the Min project in the third position uh the floor is Mr please regard ing 20
over Hillway good evening everyone um just by quick introduction I was retained uh last week by the glowski to be able to try and see if I can help bring this to resolution uh I had an
opportunity to meet with Tom S Faro to get up to speed I met with my client to get all the information I know that um I spoke to Mr Hollows has been retained as well okay Mr Hollows will be in the process of working on getting the coverage a little
bit better delineated to uh bring it more in conformance with what um should be present based upon the application that was made uh in addition to that I think there's been some discussions which may not necessarily be continually before this board because I'm a little confused on that regarding the wall and
the grading right but I do know that it may end up back here anyway so I'm going to try and resolve everything that I possibly can on this property um you know and we I'd like to back on the 27th meeting so we can provide you updated set of plans with the proper
coverage calculations with the proper reductions do you think February 27th you will have everything planned ready to go and resolve and I'm assuming that there has already been a meeting between the neighbors because that was one of the
well I assignments I don't know that it has and that's what I one of the reasons why I wanted to keep this on tonight um I think that plainly my clients are not really sure weren't really sure what to do I think so they had been reaching out for Tom
far and Tombo and and then at the same time they didn't want to do something wrong so what I had said was let me go take a look at everything get a better handle on the entire set of facts I spent a good period of time with Mr s Faro trying to walk through the issues taking a look at the maps understanding
from the town's perspective and on the engineering Department's perspective some of the issues I did speak to Mr Hollis about them he's uh Bill you're out at the property right yes I have so Mr suin had asked what what do you envision in terms of being able to put together a plan you think we'll have something ready and available to be back
here 10 days in advance for hearing at the end of February we should be I just need to actually someone else has done the survey I just want to make sure I can get an AutoCAD thr that but so this was a multi-part project and we've cleared part one which was the
grading and the W forget about the overlap on the property coverage cuz that's not our thing anyway but we cleared off because Mr SAR as the engineer had stated that he had been at the property and that the grading was adequate we cleared the dirt issues so
the last time we were here when they left they had their permits for those things they had their tickets they had their Soil Conservation they had all that we we were done okay with the grading and leveling and other stuff if there's a neighbor issue based on you know where the wall is where the river
rock is where the that that was separate here right that's encroachment and beyond our purview what we were looking for is the plans for the patio what whatever they're putting outside now to say that they've already built but like
this is we're coming Clean Slate what are they presenting right and that's we can have that done because we've already done the analysis yeah so I mean that's why I think Tom S Faro is in search of the storm water management system but there is I know that it's separate from this board there is an
issue with encroachment onto the neighboring properties that needs some type of resolution between the neighbors and that was one of the things that we one of the points that we stressed in October yeah it was a neighbor neighbor meeting it was a reduction of impervious
coverage to the tune of approximately 240 square feet and the plan revisions and the Amendments a minimum of 10 days prior to the 23rd meeting and here we are you know that meeting was 90 days ago and we're we're at the same point
here we cannot continue we've got customers waiting sure and I don't want to have another application of the for a subdivision that lasts for three years we need to move on this planning board this zoning board is subject to significant improvements in the downtown
for 2025 and we need to streamline the process satisfy whether it's a vote to affirm or deny we'll cross that bridge we come to yeah I think I know that you're coming in late in the game I'm late in the game yeah but we're a year plus into this project yeah and and I
think that I can bring it quickly to a conclusion with for the next meeting so my my aspirations remain to be able to do that for the February hearing um Mr holl and I have already discussed the reductions and you know I obviously whatever additionally needs to do with
Mr Saro now whether or not that resolves some of the other things by then but obviously for this board and really dealing with the coverage and the overages in there I don't really see that being a challenge for us to be able to do yeah I mean you're working on the survey is gonna be very important because that'll be the neighborhood
issue yeah and I think that part of I may bill you uh Mr Hollows you are preparing a new survey and you're comparing your survey to the survey of record that the Gil Bowski secured sometime in 2020 no I'd like to actually
use the the survey that was and me just ver Ying it in the field Mr if I could just swear you in just you ra your right hand you swear tell truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth I do thank you in your name and address William Hollows 192 Central Avenue New Jersey Professional engineer and L
surveyor thank you and I just do not wish to get too far into any testimony this evening because of course this is being carried and we're moving on but my ask would be I mean Mr holls is professional having appeared before the board many times that his company be
retained to do a proper survey I think that and I say proper because there's a lot of question from the neighborhood on uh where the pin was was it dug up there in construction was it moved where is it now so if if you do it and compare it to what they have and it doesn't line up at
least we'll you'll have something that's yours to work off of because there's again there's over the year we've had Neighbors come in and talk about all of the development that was there so what was pulled up from a pin what was moved what was changed okay so no good it's
good information and obviously we'll we'll make sure we come and and try and put this to bed for you quickly okay all right thank you very this point I was just going to say that I don't know who is here from that I know people I believe there may
be some interested parties at when we end this evening you you are welcome to use the um Columbia room is available for you if you wanted to have a a meet and greet outside of the confin exactly abely anyone here on that application
for 20 Overhill okay great all right thank you very much so this 20 20 Overhill will be carried until February 27 with notice this time uh Amanda with notice do you want them to Reen notice well I mean if they're
carrying and carrying a neighbor showing up would be nice for them to get notice and the list is probably still current I don't know I'll it yeah we we'll talk to Rachel Melle thank you very much so we will see you in about 15
minutes or so well you want me to do that now you want we're moving on to the next application I wasn't sure if I was you're you're actually number three tonight so you can have an opportunity with some of the residents that have expressed concerns so we are carried to
February 20th regarding 20 Overhill perfect and we are moving on to connorville application [Music] 24001 I believe just be clear sorry 27
27 thank you very much for joining us this evening um7 it 27 we are going to swear you in and then we will chat about your home improvement project you swear to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing about the truth I do thank you and your
name and address honor Bill 119 Ruckers abenberg the Heights New Jersey perfect and for the record I did review the notice it was sufficient as to form of content so the board does have jurisdiction to hear this case and for the record I'm a resident of Ruckers Avenue but I am greater than 200 feet
from however Mr Vil introduced himself as the address of ruers Avenue but we're speaking about planing Field Avenue correct would apply to the pl you didn't receive the two Under Foot notice right okay perfect um we're I just bought the house over the summer on planfield da I
didn't moved in there yet because we're trying to do Renovations obviously so my light my address my light since I just said okay um I also have photos if I could bring them up absolutely we're gonna how many do you have I just have uh a picture of it now a drawing of what
will look like and a picture a drawing of the deck okay how many sets do you have I have four four sets you hold on to one okay we're going to mark one set in as A1 and we're just going to pass these around the board here okay so you can see
Regina and why don't you tell us what is triggering the variance you've met with Tom Bako yes he said something so basically my only problem is the house is grandfathered in too close to the street okay that's the whole problem it was the house was originally
built just too close to Street and since there's a sidewalk it makes it worse so otherwise I'm not building any closer to anyone's house the square footage of the house isn't changing I'm just trying to raise the roof because the second floor has like a slanted roof and it's also framed up by 2x4s so it's starting to
Sag a little bit the contractor basically told me it'd be the same price to to build up a little bit higher because we just want to make it a full 8ot ceiling on the second floor so it's not like half the room is unusable CU it goes down to 4 feet and it's real low on the edges so we just want to raise it up
a little bit I think think the toal height would be up four feet so we have a full 8ot ceiling on the second floor and um but since it was built too close to the house he said basically anything that pertains to the front of the house at all would need a variance automatically but um it's not going to be any closer at anyone's house at all
and the he said the water runoff wouldn't change because the size of the roof doesn't change and if it wasn't for being built too close to Street 100 years ago it wouldn't wouldn't need a variance at all uh it may need a variance for the side yard set pack for the deck it it did that's the deck there
oh okay yeah it but the porch off the side's already 5 feet and it's not coming any closer than that so it still isn't going to be any no there's a new deck being proposed correct yes but I'm just saying the way it was before it's not g to be right so the the new deck on
the your facing the house the right side um looks to encroach based on the letter yeah I'm just saying it's going to be built over the we want to go right over the side porch that goes off the back door of the side door I guess that steps go down to the back of the yard the there's a side door you can see it on
the yeah the deck is built at a 12 foot side J set back yeah um but the the side on you can see the deck drawing there's a door there already with a a porch goes off five feet with steps going down the backyard I just want to tie the deck into that because the steps go right down the back of the house already so it
would end right where you put deck stairs so I figured why not just bring it around touch go up to the porch so you can just not have two things right next to each other like not connected but
um yeah you have any questions uh yeah the the driveway you have a Madam drive it's a U-shaped driveway hor shaped driveway that's going to remain yeah in addition to the Home Improvement project will you be improving the grounds it
looks like there was some stockpiling of a tree that may have yeah I removed the front tree already but that on the side where the flower guys are right yeah I mean that I want to I trimmed up most of the trees and stuff that are touching the house already okay and I took down the big one in the front and then there
was the one you can kind of see in the back photo we trimmed up all the dead branches hanging over the tree as well and you your the plan is to clean up the property and yeah I want to reside the whole house when it's all done too it it's really been neglected for years and my one thing that's messed me up is I want to do a lot with the downstairs too but we're not touching it because we
don't want to damage it when we when we're working upstairs so it's kind of put me at like a stand still what is the floor of the basement the basement's just a real small basement 6 feet is it is it yeah some of them are still no it's concrete and I think the center block
seem new so I think at some point somebody redid the basement somewhat uh and then behind you is is it a brook there or yeah there's a creek at the end of the property and there's a little bridge and then the back of your property is the church parking lot
correct yeah there's I think there's probably like 15 ft I have woods and then the church starts okay not much room it's just kind of wooded area I'd like to open up the meeting to any members of the public that have a question or comment regarding our application at 585 planfield
Avenue seeing no one I'd like to make a motion to close the meeting to to close thank you second thank you um board members questions or comments for Mr Vil this is a straightforward
box on top of a box as much as The Architects of the world hate when I use that phrase but we're we're just raising the roof here to create a more breathable habitable space and what's interesting with this project I took a
look at the house you do not have a garage correct no and there's not a plan for a garage no it's because the side door there's not much room when we have Home Improvement projects for structures that do not have a garage it is prerequisite that there is a garage but
considering the size of the home and a box on top of a box does not trigger the in excess of 1700 square feet of habitable space so the rule for the garage does not apply it's just something unusual the way the burrow
ordinance is written but it doesn't apply in this case where we've had other situations where they either asked for a waiver or we incorporated some type of garage Mr PR no I mean it looks pretty straightforward I don't have any
questions Mr Sylvester no no question thank you Mr Ringwood I'm good thank you Mr Del Mr Dean I'm good Mr toell I'm good uh conditions board members in short of our St short of the
standard conditions I don't think standard well all four sides will be consistent right you're going to resite it anyway so all be consistent yes um are you planning any exterior lighting um not at the moment but I would like some landscape lighting at least okay can you just make sure that everything's downward directed so it doesn't go onto the other properties
yeah no problem and then you'll keep the property free of any debris or blight so if you have storage materials you keep them nice and organized yes perfect oh don't we normally ask about storage under the deck are we okay with storage under the deck or do we want lattice because this isn't um not a high
deck right what's the height of the deck um not very high maybe five feet it's not Mr might want to just put some lattice around it up I would definitely do that um I think it doesn't trigger storm water management no additional coverage
some trees have been thrown back but you're in the industry right a little bit not your brother well I used to landscape but landcap I don't really do it anymore all right uh may I get a motion on uh an approval I made a motion to approve we have a motion by Mr k a
second second by Mr Mr Ringwood and a roll quote Please Mr fan yes goell yes Mr deia yes Mr Ringwood yes Mr Sylvester yes Mr yes Mr Dean yes
motion carries 70 so in a month on probably February 27th a resolution will be available to you to memorialize this see Connie we take care of probably on the Friday after and then you can start your project whenever you you know you
can start working with the team and the construction department and put your papers in order did Tom did Tom hoffen formally on the homeall yeah he did and he did the drawings for the house too all right great thank you good to see everyone thank you very much for joining
us um we going to take a pause a five minute pause and team men can set up and then we we'll see you in about 5 minutes okay thank you very much we are we've returned and we are on
application 2418 the Min parcel at at 31 Roosevelt Avenue block 1302 Lot 4 this is the R15 this is off of planfield Avenue near Columbia school we looks like we have
the applicant and the application team led by Mr sanor and please share a high level review of this exciting project just for the record I'll note that we did review the notice of a suici as to form and content so the board does have jurisdiction to hear this case thank you
m w so much of what's driving this particular application is unique location relative to the fact that you have this you know Bolton Boulevard uh paper street that kind of borders the left hand side of the
property which you know doesn't appear that would ever be opened or improved cutting back through there probably for a variety of reasons and that turns this into a double front lot um so it becomes a corner lot essentially and I check this with Mr baka
despite the fact that there's no improvement there he still was regarding it as a corner lot and I think that's what triggers a lot of this setback elements and components um obviously there's some existing deficiencies uh as it as it
stands and then as we move into the uh building coverage components we are proposing about an 18.5 uh coverage with a total coverage of 2693 so so we're what we're doing
essentially is when we put in this new addition we're removing some driveway and that's really resulting in that kind of you know up down kind of scenario that doesn't really trigger just a continual creef and uh combination of you know
additional coverage um there's also a shed on the property the shed was a pre-existing shed um prior to their purchase of the home and that shed also being an accessory of use in a front yard based upon the corner even though it's the
back left of the property and probably the most tucked away from all the neighbors the shed itself I went out and measured it myself to make sure that the proper um sizes were you know reflected and it is under the square foot 96
yeah um I think that's what I put it down in the application let me just double check to be sure and the height was fine as well I measured the height um yeah 96.67 was the total shed size and it appears to be
5T in the front yard fronting bolon yes so that is a was 50 theoretically exactly because and then in the back is for four and change three and change yep where 10 was required I think we were at
uh is that um 37 3 three 37 we what is that Hamilton behind um that would be uh where Washington washing I think it's Washington next isn't it Washington next
or Washington one up but there's there's a street there's a street right back and right AC and this is close to par and one of the other things mentioned um in the in our plan originally is it was denoted as a six foot fence and it's not a six foot fence so to relieve everyone from that
stress uh we actually have a tape measure view of what it is we could bring it but I was it myself I did drive by y so uh I checked every corner of the fence as well just in case CU sometimes they change with the elevation so I went and measure every cut and um was running
around with a tape measure in their yard one day that was when Connie called me so uh there's that issue and we did amend the uh the plan which I have as exhibit to change it to existing 5 foot vinyl fence for continuity purposes because the the
original plan we submitted to six foot so you have an exhibit that says that but that's the general the general gist um I have Mr Hollow here to try and walk us through this a sing Family House single family home Y and I'm happy to show you a little compendium of photos that we have like
to see that sure and then why don't you introduce Mr holl and any other your team that would be interested in participa here is the exhibit A1 okay and if you guys want to just kind of share and pass some of those
around you how it's laid out you and who took those photographs when did they take them um did you take them y I took them maybe um and for the record can you just stand up state your name be morning in yeah
full property owner along with my wife here would you raise your right hand do you SAR tell the truth the whole truth nothing but the truth yes thank you and those photos were taken by you correct okay and you prepared that exhibit okay
thanks wood the wood okay Mr Hollows um if you want to get sworn in sir please I know you were sworn in already is do you want to do again okay you s to tell the the truth nothing but the truth I do thank you your name and address William Hollow 192 Central
Avenue Sterling New Jersey thank you and your background I'm licensed professional engineer and land surveyor and my license is in good standing right and we accept thank you very much uh Mr Hollis can you just take us through the
general site uh conditions and so the setbacks coverage I can do that and I it probably would be better that I pass the out Y and that Amanda is A2 ready to marked colorized
version with the rendering that you have isly same rendering that I had on this drawing and um the property is on the Solly side of Roosevelt Avenue at the intersection of Roosevelt
and Bolton Bolton is a paper street it's not improved I doubt that it will ever be improved because the streets are what's it Woodruff Washington [Music] that are they're all dead end dead ends basically because there's environmental
constraints in this area to the East and to the southeast of this subject property so I doubt that Bolton would ever go through be that as it may we are in the R15 Zone requires well the corner lot requires
16,500 we have a 100 by 100t lot which is 10,000 square ft so we're starting starting off in a negative area to begin with the light colored box is the existing dwelling we've got a uh frame
Deck with a pave driveway and the shed that mentioned before is in this uh the southeast corner of the property right adjacent to Bolton Boulevard Roosevelt Avenue has probably recent recently been improved it's got
nice p nice curving got sidewalk um then it goes down this adjoining property to the east is a is a vacant piece of property I don't know who the owner is but most everything else is owned by the township
of Perle heists but this one piece of property I had worked on that 2005 or so and it uh done survey and to of that property our
subject property is right here to the on the most of the title block on this drawing it's the Roosevelt Avenue that's extended and it's a wooded area we located the trees and probably more of an Upland part at that time and
then then you get down and there's some streams there's a mainstream that comes through the property there's mainstream that goes behind Woodruff Washington in putam and then goes across and goes down towards the railroad um but this is there's a lot of
wetlands in the area to the east just to kind of give you an overflow that that this this most likely will never be improved Mr holl do we have that um exhibit or that plan you don't okay can we just Mark that as exhibit A3 we're
make it A3 y perfect thank you that after I just wanted to bring that up because it kind of important when I get into some another aspect of the project but um existing non-conforming conditions we've got a front yard
setback that's in violation or just existing nonconforming it's supposed to be 50 ft we've got 29.7 um we meet The sidey Yards we don't meet the area we don't meet the lot width we don't meet the lot
depth and then again the accessory structure is in violation of the 50 front yard set back to the paper Street and then 3.7 ft off of the rear property line what the applicant is proposing to do is put an addition onto the house and
that's the darker brown area uh realign the driveway the driveway right now is kind of a jumbo driveway a little extra wide and um that's how we get a little bit of reduction in our lot coverage we're just bringing the driveway a
little bit more in conformance with really the doors of the proposed garage the first floor is a garage on this addition second floor would be living space is there any driveway Improvement planed like like I know you're eliminating some driveway are we
Shifting the driveway over or are we just reducing what exists today no we're going to have to slide it over to meet up for the doors of the of the proposed so then the driveway will extend to the street correct and this Belgium Block
curb and a brand new sidewalk and that would have to be improved at that right and uh Roosevelt qualified for a street Rehabilitation so there's more than likely a
moratorium on this Pro I speak to Tom bucko yeah I'm just saying we wouldn't I was going to say we're not going to be digging anything up there no utilities that type of thing in the street it would really be just replacing the curb line okay you there sometimes you can
just cut it yeah you just secure it should this application Advance just close that Loop because I know the town is very sensitive with no soon as do you pay a road you know there's a water main break or something but this this um they are sensitive to the streets that they
pave through the municipal Grant programs so I just closed the loop because I know that's a new pain no problem and the sidewalks brand new on that local correct I think that was part of the safe rots to school program and
when I saw the original uh Google Maps it had the old sidewalk slabs there that were in repair however this family was fortunate enough that the uh safe Roots the school program continued along Roosevelt from probably the new
development or the firehouse all the way up to the uh the crossing at the school so it worked so with the proposed new addition we've had a new side yard front yard set back to Bolton Boulevard um
we' be down to 10.7 on that 50 is required lot coverage for the building right now is 13.4 it would go to 18.5 where 15 is
allowed and then the uh coverage with the the other other impervious coverage will be reduced because of the driveway and that would be reduced to 8.4 from 11 and then we would have a total of I
think is rounding here I get 26.94 Tom bco has 26.93 just rounding of numbers I'd rather round up and down but yeah I think I listed a 2693 based upon the total area the
existing improvements yeah yes because I took the um area existing buildings y with the uh other additions and reductions came to 2693 and what's unusual in this case and I know you know Mr Hollows has been
around for a while and Mr centory has grown up here this was probably supposed to be the r10 Zone somewhere along the line there was a disconnect where the r10s were on this side of Playfield Avenue but on the
opposite side putham woodr Washington Roosevelt should have remains as r10 and I don't know what Happ this is perfect example of a 10,000 so our increase in perious coverage is 255 Square
ft that's the the net increase gets us to that 26.93 um this is where I would normally for that 255 squ ft come up with some sort of a storm water management
structure um whether it be a drywall whether it be a gravel pit whether it be something in that order what I'm proposing to do because this is the only time I've had an opportunity to do this in a in a relatively I can't remember doing one
I'm proposing to have the roof leaders come down and direct the water towards the Wetland area and it's it's a natural rain Garden area and the environmental people are always saying make a rain Garden well it's already there so all
I'm trying to do is add that little bit of water not a whole lot um that was my proposal I I put that out there I'm sure I could design something different but I think in logic and professional engineering experience that this would
be a good way to to manage that storm water personally I'm of the opinion that there should be an sight system or at least some some perk speak to Tom S Faro but it's it's
different there's a lot of water that hits that area uh there are people behind the church that are very sensitive to it all the way through the SN of Brook and robins and works eventually Works their way down across to the P so even though we're talking
about 250 only 250 but it's it's 250 50 more so I I would just run it past him typically we include a storm water management provision in subjects of the review and the approval of the township engineer but we have no problem if the
environmental commission and Tom S Faro shat about this it's a different concept I would I just caution that it should not become the norm and I I think we have an anomaly I agree with you yeah we're happy to have you know
were to move forward a condition where we would just consult with Mr zaro and and go by whatever his recommendations would be I think because the only challenge would be if one house does it and then improvements down the road and everybody starts graining into Bolton it
no longer becomes Wetlands it becomes a small I I'm sure I can come up with something yeah me to so far that whatever they agree on yeah um why don't we take a run through the architecture of the house
thank you Mr you have the here no I can certainly introduce you want to give amand that piece sorry copies um just give you this as you submitt uh yeah it's the
same okay everybody min oh yeah yeah okay yeah black and white yeah but it's the same it's same yeah okay so you hang on to that Mark that one as an exhibit
[Music] get ready to be sworn in when was ready the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth I do thank you your name and address Jr and address 422 Woodland R Park and your qualifications yeah um so
I'm licensed in the state of New Jersey I've been licensed in 2019 um I got my bachelor's degree in architecture in 2013 um my license has been in good standing since um I presented in numerous boards such as Hillside Newark Monclair Glenridge just
to name a few thank you very much for joining us thank you thank you can you take us through a little bit of the existing uh home and what the additional um is looking to do and some of the elevations yeah absolutely yeah so um
the top picture of course is our existing home the picture on the right is just kind of a preview of you know the design the expansion as um our Engineers explained um you know really it's a modest size uh a split level home
right and we're looking to be able to expand the pet to create better size bedrooms as well as adding an additional bedroom bathroom um and so you can see the first floor here this area here as you enter is our living room dining
kitchen space take the stairs up and then you have a small area here with a hallway bathroom and three bedrooms it's a very typical uh layout for a split level you can take the stair up and the stair up takes you into this upper area here where there's a current bedroom and
bathroom above and going down into our ground floor area we have a small family room which is really not a useful space and we have our garage that's also a very small small space as well so with the expansion we're looking to you know make
a much better space for the family room the garage space and with that also increase the current bedroom size and be able to include an additional bedroom in bathroom right and so you can see how the expansion of the hall space is
giving us that possibility being able to get um a nice size bedrooms at the two ends here being able to improve upon the existing bedroom here and here and that is a yeah brief summary of
our project and you can see overall the exterior design um much much better Improvement you know introducing some different material types as well as um you know reciting the entire house so it feels all as one can you tell us a little bit about the exterior treatments
that you're planning yeah so we have you know um we're we're going to be reciting it with new vinyl sighting we have some um new composite uh planks for the deck for the existing for the deck there um and then we also have along the front
side you know so we have our aluminum gutters aluminum fascia um you know and being able to also we're going to be including our uh fiberglass shingles for the roofing on the top um you can see also you know some of the uh some of the embellishments that we've created to
create um some um now we have a much bigger family room so we've introduced a few new windows as well as um some trim work for that and all the materials um the same on all sides correct
correct will this project start from Ground Zero are you stripping this house all the way down to the studs and rebuilding it or are we really adding on to that driveway Annex area we correct yeah we are adding yeah everything that
you see this the garage everything that you see lined in white that remains Inta that remains intact exactly there's a couple adjustments on the interior walls based upon the new space but exactly yeah otherwise you're
just adding as part of that expansion correct members of the board any questions or comments to the architect I'd like to make a motion to open up the meeting to members of the public that have a question or comment regarding our application before us at
31 Roosevelt D Mo by mran second by Mr deia all in favor meeting is now open to members of the public that have a question or comment regarding 31 Roosevelt seeing no one may
have a motion to close Mr Ringwood so second by Mr per second all in favor um Mr kovel any questions or comments for any of the professionals this evening or the homeowner no I think they making the most out of the space looks good Mr Dean
I agree same thing mrv I'm sorry I forgot about you I think good Mr yeah looks good all Mr R I'm good thank
Mr does the board want to have a condition that if the shed is replaced it be replaced in a conforming location yes how is the shed in District pair is I guess the only question you have that 50 foot yeah the 50 Foot uh want to say
that you would want it in like a 10 10 or a pretty good repair is the is the shed in decent shape worry about it yeah and to be honest it's really from the neighbor perspective it's really in the best
position because it's kind of tucked away from everybody and then we'll will that the storm water management wording will be a little bit different because Mr holl has a a different concept to introduce in respect to stor Water Management how how
how would you run the leader pipes so they're going to be ground surface and the leader comes down you're going to have the drainage on the surface going across yes yeah I that's just the Nal flow of the of the Topography is towards that
yeah Wetland area right but if you I'm just saying if you were in the the ground pipe all the way across the property and stopped at Bolton um just from a homeowner aspect right it becomes a landscaping headache mowing over and around it you know so just thinking about it from that perspective no I think what he's talking about and
correct me if I'm wrong but when when you come down here with the with the leader it's just a splash block right that's what I had in mind Oh I thought he was going to run the pipe that's what it it sounded to me that a pipe was going to go to a few feet from the property line no right that's that's why
it looked the diagram as well which is why I was like then then that that retains a sheet flow onto yeah for a little bit before you hit the yeah the idea is down daylight andash block and that makes more sense
I thought one thing a good thing you guys told this yeah yeah because I was looking at the pipe on the you know it's just a line right so I was like oh maybe they're bringing a leader the pipe all the way across that was really an arrow to say that this is way could be directed A lot of times they would just direct it towards the street right we want them to direct it towards that over
space saying it that way I mean I have zero and then the uh the moratorium on the let's just close the look with if there is some additional bonding requirements from the town or what the engineers requirements are okay with
that said may get a motion make moot second we have a motion by Mr D a second second by Mr Ringwood and a roll call on 31 Roosevelt Please Mr Sullivan yes Mr kobell yes Mr
deia yes Mr Ringwood yes Mr Sylvester yes Mr pareda yesan yes motion cares 70 thank you good luck with your home improvement project a resolution will be available following the February
27 good luck than [Music] very I got a motion to open up the meeting to members of the public make a motion open the public we have motion by Mr Dean a second by m all in favor meeting is now
open to members of the public that have a question or comments for the zoning board this evening seeing no one may have a motion to close Mr pester make a motion and the second by Mr per second motion all in
favor um any housekeeping Amanda that we need to sh we don't have any new members so no one has to go to any trainings uh I think we're going to have it challenging 2025 I think we have some
trc's coming up I'm sure you're you're involved in most of them planning TRC are you involved no I'm not involved then okay so U there there may be some challenges coming up right out of the gate for
2020 any onest say for February February is we have a return of anation and I think to Trad oh February is the oversized shed proposal or the
detached structure accessory and I think just the home oh we might have an appeal too I think that one's coming up that's probably we're pretty much sold out for February and then there'll be a
challenges they're appealing Mr B's Zing decision it's for I guess the door boy property oh it's door I think so oh I didn't know which I I thought it was across the street from where Berkeley the catering hall is on I'm not
sure they're appealing this thing I thought they were appealing something he said oh no no no I didn't know I think so but I'm not sure because all the paper said that it was previously approved for I think a Paving Company and then it turned into door boy but I'm not sure if there's
another boy still I think so yeah I thought too we'll see maybe I think it's another okay might be site then I think it's down you know where gnl catering what's the
underneath the plub what's the name of that catering tnl right across the street is was something triangle right there was communication okay that sounds right K it was something it sounds like there
may be a landscaping practice that may not have been chall come us thank you very much didn't yet no oh I'm sorry uh I got a motion to adjourn all in favor photo thing it's up
here oh yeah I have