##VIDEO ID:jejMYK_zO9M## good evening the city of Boston's zoning a board of appeal hearing for December 5th 2024 is now in session this hearing is being conducted in accordance with the applicable provisions of the open meeting law including the updated Provisions enacted by the legislature last year the new law allows the board to continue its practice of holding virtual hearings until March 2025 this hearing of the board is being held remotely via the zoom webinar event platform this hearing is also being recorded in order to ensure this hearing of the board is open to the public members of the public May access this hearing through telephone and video conferencing the information for connecting to this hearing is listed on today's hearing agenda which is posted on the Public Notices page of the city's website boston.gov members of the public will enter the virtual hearing as attendees which means you will not see yourself on the screen and you will be muted un throughout unless administratively unmuted when asked to comment board members applicants and their attorneys or Representatives will participate in the hearing as panelists and they will appear alongside the presentation materials when speaking panelists are strongly encouraged to keep the video on while presenting to the board as with our in-person meetings comments and support will be followed by comments and opposition the order of comments is as follows elected officials representatives of elected officials and members of the public the chair May limit the number of people called upon to offer test offer a comment and the time for commenting as time constraints require for that reason the board prefers to hear from members of the public who are most impacted by a project that is those individuals who live closest to the project if you wish to comment on an appeal please click the raise hand button along the bottom of your screen in the zoom webinar platform click it again and your hand should go down when the host sees your hand you will receive a request to unmute yourself select yes and you should be able to talk if you are connected to the hearing telephone please press star 9 to raise and lower your hand you must press star six to unmute yourself after you receive the request from the host those called upon to comment will be asked to State their name and address first and then can provide their comment in the interest of time and to ensure that you have enough time to do so please raise your hand as soon as Mr strige reads the address into the record do not raise your hand before the relevant address is called or the meeting host will not know to call on you at the appropriate time Mr stbridge good evening Madam chair president good evening Miss B Braza good evening Madame chair president good evening the floor is yours Mr stbridge thank you madam chair as we begin the hearing scheduled for 5:00 pm first we have case boa 162 9666 with the address of 20 flavius Street if the applicant and or their representative are present would they please explain the case to the board yes um good evening my name is David freed and I'm an architect I live at 23 salom Street in Dorchester and I'm pleased to present this project um if we could start sure thank you with the pro proposed plot plan um the owners um were just seeking to do a very modest addition to the rear of the house um um uh to uh provide for a uh a mudro laundry and um half bath and large kitchen on the first floor and um an owner Suite on the second floor with an office Al Cove uh next um slide please um here's an image these are images of the um thank you these are images of the back of the house it's got a very deep yard um as you can see in our site plan below which is kind of a Google Google Maps overlay um the street is consists of a very similar house type uh on both sides a number of people have done additions as well um and next slide please this is just an existing and proposed plan of the basement uh next slide please and then on the left is the existing first floor and on the right is our proposed first floor and again on the uh the left is our prop existing second floor and then our proposed second floor the the um violations that we've incurred um are sidey guard violation because we wanted the the owners wanted the addition to align with the um existing face of a uh outside face of the house so we incurred a side yard violation there we've also incurred um an F violation as were 0.06 over the um the allotted 0.5 uh for 2 out 5000 we were incorrectly cited for a rear yard violation uh which we um tried repeatedly to um get an updated refusal from um ISD but we weren't able to uh get that um and then here we have on our lower left I'm sorry on the top of the the screen are the existing elevations on the bottom are the proposed so on the bottom left is our proposed rear elevation um where we have sort of uh some larger fenestration on the back uh looking into the rear yard so the owners can can watch their kids uh we have a nice canopy over the entrance um to the mudro and on the right um is our side elevation the owners are going to uh remove the vinyl siding in this renovation um and clad the house with uh fiber cement lap siding um and trim it out with you know a water table and corner boards and then finally here's our other side elevation um and that's that's our presentation thank you questions from the board mam chair the uh extend the addition is very modest I don't have any questions thank you uh may may we have public testimony good morning good afternoon Madam chair and members of the board in regards to 20 Flavia Street our office will defer to the board's judgment a community process was conducted including an abutters meeting on 10724 which was not attended by any constituents and I did not receive any additional comments from the community following the abutters meeting Additionally the proposal was viewed with the Pope's Hill civic association which convened on 10232 24 the associ association has expressed support for the proposal at this time the mayor's office and Neighborhood Services differs to the board's judgment on this decision thank you for your time and consideration thank you madam chair we have no raised hands at the moment thank you with that may I have a motion Madam chair I'd like to put forward a motion of approval I have a second second Mr stbridge yes Miss B Braza yes chair votes yes the motion carries good luck thank you so much good night next we have case boa 157 7332 with the address of 15 Packard Avenue if the applicant and or their representative are present would they please explain to the board hi Tony if you're on or you're can you raise your hand don't say any raised hands at the moment see a phone can you unmute yourself pH are you here to present or I don't know Jessica can you unmute this person can yeah uh you can un I he's a panelist so I can't mute him I can ask him to un can you unmute yourself phone you just ask to unmute I sent a request to unmute you but there you go I see it flickering but it's still muted if you can unmute yourself uh we'll be happy to listen to the presentation I send request yeah I'm not sure sorry madam chair no no it's okay I'm gonna give like a two seconds I think we can move on and circle back and maybe that'll hopefully give them time to there we go let's go to cedis and circle back okay then we'll move on to case boa 162 6437 with the address of 58 cedus Avenue the applicant and and their representative are present would they please explain I saw that person's hand raised as well yeah hello can you hear me yes sir okay yes how you doing uh my name is James the previous uh I'm uh property owner as well as the applicant um I'm here representing myself um just a quick uh uh overview about why I'm trying to do this project uh back in March 11th 202 three our family suffered a fire and uh though no one was harmed um it left us displaced so I took this as an opportunity to take the existing property from a one family into a two family sir you're coming in and out I don't know if you're you're coming in and out we cannot hear you clearly instruction but we're at a fault right now due to [Music] um am I the only one who can't hear him clearly no no you're not the only one it's okay so uh I don't know if the applicant can maybe if you try turning off your video or adjusting your sound I uh how about now I re um can you hear me now is this still coming in and out I'm gonna suggest we can hear you we can hear you now we can hear you yeah okay I think okay sorry I had to redo my Bluetooth I'm sorry about that no that's okay I was just gonna say feel free to maybe try sometimes that does it okay I I'll try that hold on one second okay see that's all right okay um sorry about that yes um now I was saying that um back in March uh uh March 11 2023 my family and I suff of fire uh which left us uh displaced although no one was harm um but we eventually lost our family home so um given that the the fire uh presented itself as also opport opportunity for us to take it from an existing one family into a two family uh so the whole purpose is to get uh the family back into um living under one space and have enough space where I can rent to my aunt uh and uh have everybody uh within uh the same roof so that we could better take care of our our our mother who's suffering from dementia so that's the whole motivation behind uh changing the property from one to two uh as you can see with the first page it just kind of shows the um well should say the second page a001 just gives the different um the that uh this meeting is in relation to uh the L area being insufficient insufficient the floor ratio excessive open space insufficient and side show the existing versus what the uh City requirements are um and I'm off a little bit uh uh on each category uh lot size is 5,000 square feet I'm at 4,840 um the additional lot area is um additional area maybe I'll pause you and ask if uh if members have any questions yeah um yeah yes understandable yeah your the zoning variance that you're requesting is on the on this sheet which we' I've reviewed and um okay I don't have any I don't have any further questions the good thing is that you're in a zoning subdistrict that is 2f 5000 correct I don't see uh a large request um so this is again a very modest request as well thank you uh may I open it up to public testimony good evening Madam chair member of the board uh regarding 58 cedis AB our office will defer to the board's judgment on this matter a community process was conducted including in a Butters meeting on 81524 and we have also received a one letter of support claiming that the proposal was a good fit for the neighborhood additionally the proposal was was reviewed in the West Village neighborhood association which voted to support the proposal and did also provide a letter of support for the proposal at this time the mayor's office and Neighborhood Services differs to the board's decision thank you for your time and consideration everyone thank you for the record we have no raised hands at the moment I I have a raised hand oh yes I said a question um when I went to the an earlier meeting but we weren't able to get kind of details about the square footage that would be increased and it would be helpful for him to explain what the current is and what will the change will be in terms of Lighty increase square footage and maybe show the pictures because we weren't able to do that at the previous meeting so for the record can you just identify yourself in uh your address my name is George Henry Hasty okay and are you in a butter um I'm partners with an a butter and GNA be living next door understood uh so so I think I just heard a question to the applicant about square footage sir do you want to answer that question before we proceed James sure sure um yes uh A3 shows the um existing uh uh plant the existing numbers and uh A4 will show the numbers of the proposed so it's going to be pretty much the exact same uh overall um it's just we'll be adding um additional on top of the house but as far as the square footage is the total would be from 398 in to about 40 uh three in oh sorry feet three inches that'll be the difference in length thank you any other questions yes from the board okay hearing none is there a motion um Madam chair um given that the maximum F uh on the property is 0.5 but the propos is 049 I see the request to be uh within the zoning kind of regulations of a 2f subdistrict so for that reason I'm putting forward a motion of approval is there a second second Mr yeah Miss bza yes chair votes yes the motion carries thank you everybody thank you uh with that see if uh K we'll go back to case boa 15773 32 with the address of 15 Packer Avenue see if the applicant or their representative are ready to speak hello thank you hi can you hear me okay uh yes are you speaking on behalf of 15 Packard yes hi my name is fley and I'm the owner at 15 Packard a and um we would just like to make a small proposal to our existing space um if we look through the floor plans here we already did an addition about 15 years ago to the home and it's a two and a half story home and we're just hoping to add Dormer windows to our third floor to make it a little bit more usable as we have a multi-generational family there and we're just looking for more space for our family of um myself my husband my three children and also my mother-in-law questions from the board hearing none may I have public testimony good evening Madam chair and members of the board my name is Eva Jones with the mayor's office and Neighborhood Services um regarding 15 Packard AB our office will defer to the board's judgment on this matter a community process was conducted including an abutters meeting held on 11624 where no concerns were expressed additionally the proposal was also reviewed with the lower Mill civic association which convened on 10524 and voted to support the proposal at this time the mayor's office of Neighborhood Services defers to the board's decision thank you for your time and consideration everyone thank you any other raised hands hearing none may I have a motion Madam chair I like to put for a motion of approval is there a second second Mr stbridge yes Miss B brazo yes chair votes yes the motion carries good luck thank you next we'll move on to the red disccussion scheduled for 5:00 pm this is case boa 161 3879 with the address of 43 to 45 Wood Avenue if the applicant and or their representative are present would they please explain the case to the board hello board hello Madam chair yes are you the applicant yes ma'am okay please um proceed are you on two devices or I think I may be my phone might be on hold on I see a m yet okay that's my wife okay uh so please proceed yes um um I'd like to I'd like to continue this for a couple of weeks because uh the plans that's listed with this uh are inaccurate if you look at these plans they say they're this stuff is all proposed it's the these things are actually existing so it has an existing driveway existing curb cut and another existing curb cut so um we would only be asking for the driveway um but these plans aren't accurate and I've been trying to get the engineer to to redo them and it's been very difficult I actually saw him today and he gave me plans but they're inaccurate as well also uh he he removed how much time do you need we can um find out two weeks would be great I'm sorry two weeks two weeks would be fine okay um car Caroline what do we have um give me one minute I'm looking right now of course thank you probably for January because the subcommittee meets every month I think is it the next subcommittee Caroline that's the 23rd or the 14th is the next I'm just J checking the date for the next subcommittee in January I apologize it's okay it's the 23rd of January okay I apologize January 23rd is that sufficient the for the applicant yes ma'am like I said the only thing all this stuff is proposed so we would just be removing proposed proposed proposed and it took understood uh may I have a motion yes Madam chair I like to put forward a motion to defer the project to the subcommittee hearing on January 23rd May I have a second second Mr stbridge yes Miss B Braza yes chair votes yes motion carries we'll see you then thank you ma'am thank you boy and thank you to everyone have a good night have a good evening night bye