Okay, we're going to call to order the first hearing of the Afternoon. It's upon the application of Kristen and Hugh Donnelly of 20 Brookside Park in Milton dated March 18th, 2025
seeking zoning relief from a in the form of a special permittive variance to build a 17 ftx 15 ft one-story addition to the right side of the existing structure. property is located in a resident C zoning district and the proposed addition would be built at a
distance of 15 feet 8 in from the front property line whereas article 10 section 27510- 10-10 2C of the Milton zoning bylaw requires that new buildings or portions of
buildings be set back a minimum of 20 ft from the front um lot line. Um therefore we are having this hearing tonight this this evening. My name is Virginia Donnie Hu King and I'll be acting um on behalf
of uh I I'm the zoning administrator and a member of the board of appeals and I will be deciding this case this afternoon. So um when you speak um oh please um give your name and address so that we have a nice record of
everything. Um in the file we have a number of different things here. We have the application um the denial letter for the building permit. We have a PL plan of the location. We have architectural drawings and elevations of
the proposal. And let's see. Yes, that's that's the end of what we have for this one here tonight. Um, so I'm going to turn it over to who um the applicants or whoever will be speaking
for the applicants and um let's hear about your project and why you're doing what you need to do and so forth. >> Sure. Um I'm happy to start. Um my name is Henry Mlan. I'm the architect for the project and um if you like Jenny, I can
share um three-dimensional views. It might be helpful just to see the project. And I don't know if you have those. We submitted those as well, but you didn't. >> I have them. Yes, I do have them. >> All right. So, essentially, we're um if you look at the plan on the first floor,
um we are essentially setting back the building another five feet or so from um the the current um front of the building, which is actually just about I believe around 10 ft. I'm pulling up the plot plan again. Yeah, it's 10 feet away
from this lot land. So, we're we're we're coming back another almost 6 ft from that um to locate this new one-story um um uh addition um family room that um you and and Kristen are
looking to build. Um and we're trying to sensitively tie it into the building um and stepping it down to a wraparound porch. There's a there's an existing um uh failing um porch that's there now, wooden porch um which were um not porch
but deck. And we're adding a another layer to that deck for the lower section so that we can step this down and and tie it in nicely to the building. Um and again, it's barely able to see the building from the street as you're coming down the drive. um it's up
against this the wetlands which were also in the midst of going for a review with the conservation commission which is happening in another week or so and um but we've had you know good reports from pretty much everyone we've spoken to and I think just the only issue here
is this 20 foot setback uh requirement that's written into the part of the um zoning that we're you're looking at um and so we're looking for relief on that but Um, things to point out is that the the lot literally pulls further away
from the building, um, as you look at the plot plan. So that in a sense, if you were to take a straight line out from the addition to the street is what I meant to say, then you're actually over the 20 ft. But the lot line is is direct. I think that lawn that's in
front of their house is property owned lawn. There's actually a a a drainage grate there which we will obviously respect and pay attention to where the builder does the work and crosses that section of the land which I've spoken to Jay Bolio building uh acting building
commissioner about and he said that's fine. They can access through the building uh through that section of property that is literally owned by the by the town. Um but again the street itself uh curls further away from the
project. So um we think that there's a good um rationale for that. And again we placed the addition so that it works in conjunction with the living room. The doors that are set up if you look at the floor plan first floor plan you can see we're trying to tie it in sensitively to
the existing floor plans of the house itself. Um, so that all works quite nicely and um anyway I can take any questions and happy to share 3D if we need to look at it together. >> Yeah, I just wanted to confirm one thing. I'm looking at the um the plot
plan of the proposed um w with the proposed um addition on it. Um it looks like there's two lots there. Is you were referring to that and and those are both o owned by the applicants. Is that correct? >> Well, yeah. Oh, right. There is a division down there. I guess though both
properties are owned. Correct. What I was referring to is the line that goes parallel to Brookside Park. Um if you if you actually look at it on the town um uh uh what we call the um uh this is a
plot plan that the town provides over on the um on the um sorry the the LAR photos. you can see that the the street itself pulls further away from that lot line. So, it's very close to the lot line um right where the driveway is, but
as you push down where the addition is um there's another 8 10 12 15 ft maybe um between the addition and the street at that point is what I'm trying to say. Egyptian's more like maybe 25 feet from
the street and that property where right where it says park on the plot plan that is essentially open lawn um because the drive >> I'm where are you referring to on that? >> Um well you see on the where where the
the letters are written Brookside Park going vertical on the sheet. Mhm. >> Where it says park itself, that is all lawn. The driveway um the road, the end of the circle essentially, Brookside Park is a is a circle. We're there at
the very end of the road and it turns away. So the the street is is essentially u available there. I can show you a photograph if you want to see it, but >> Sure. >> Yeah. Um let me see if I can pull that up real quick. that um
just jump into that. I don't know if you and um while I'm finding that Kirsten Kristen and you have you had any other shots? I'm happy to just take a minute here. I'll just pull that
photograph up. Okay. >> I think you were pretty comprehensive, Henry. All right. Sure. I have much to add to that. I I um would just note I think that the addition is in line with
the character of the neighborhood as well. Um as Henry mentioned, the addition would be set further back than our house is currently. Um and all the houses on the street are similarly situated on their lots where they're
less than the 20 20 ft. >> Right. Let me just go I'm going to go to Google Maps really quick. It just shows it right under there. Okay. Is that is that becoming problematic? >> No, I've got it now. Here it is. Sorry.
Okay. Um I can Can I share a screen here? Let's see how I do that. Um participants should be down in the bottom center. >> Share. >> Yep. >> Uh send request.
>> You're trying to do multiple. Okay. Sure. I'm just on a screen here that >> Okay, I have two screen share now. >> Okay, >> you can see it. Okay. Um, >> I'm not seeing it at all. Yeah.
>> Okay. It's on my screen, so Henry Mlan. Oh, there it is. More. No. Usually there's a uh participants video. Where should I go to my screen? I'm at the share. Oh, there it is.
>> Click into the share screen function. This disappeared on my screen. Hold on one more sec here. Sorry. Okay. So, that's number one, but it's not uh Get rid of that.
These windows. >> Let me try to modify it to one participant sharing at a time and see if that adjusts it for you. >> Yeah. Um, okay. Just trying to find the um
>> Henry, it's Kristen. I think I just shared I think I just pulled it up and shared. >> Okay. >> Can people see it? >> Yes, I can. >> So, this um is our house, the white house here.
And um you can kind of see as you >> Yes. how it um how it goes further out and this is actually a dead end. Um so you kind of typically come around
here and flip around the median and where um this is us on the end. So Henry mentioned it's even kind of hard to see um from the street because it's not really where you would drive.
>> Right. Right. >> That's helpful. Yes, that's very helpful. I've I've been on your street um many times, but um it's sometimes difficult to remember everything. So So that that's very helpful. Thank you.
Um is there anything else that um Oh, let me just um say so if if um this were to be granted, you would be um building according to these plans substantially and so forth. So that you know you this is how you want it. You don't want to be changing it or anything, right?
>> No. >> Right. >> Okay. Okay. Very good. >> Put a lot of effort into that. We're not we're not going to change. Sometimes sometimes the idea is conceptual when it comes here and it's a good thing not to be conceptual. So um
are there any other um things that you'd like to add or are there any other people that would like to speak on this? >> And I'm just curious anyone else on the call from neighbors or anybody? Nobody's um normally the the various hearings I've
been at the past people show up but I don't I don't I don't know if anybody's >> yeah they Bill would be able to see them. >> Okay. >> We don't have any members of the public who are interested in this hearing. >> Then I'm going to close the evidentiary portion of the hearing
and um make the decision on this. This is um this is a well-designed attractive looking building. It's um it's it's not infringing upon the um um the setback from the front. It's in fact it's it's
built back from it, which is a pleasing um aesthetic for the whole thing. And I I think that this is um well conforming to um a situation where we would bend the law a little bit as a pre-existing non-conforming house. So, um, we will,
um, so I am voting as a party of one to, um, which is all we need tonight to, um, grant this special permit. And, um, congratulations on the special permit. Now, um, I'll be writing this up. It will take, you know, a couple weeks,
perhaps less if you're lucky. And, um, by the So, I'll be filing that with Mr. Donley and um he will bring it to the town clerk where there um will be a 20-day appeal period. It's um it's a formal formality that must be gone
through so that if somebody um you know forgot to come, they could they could make theirelves known, but typically it's um it's just a formality. Oh, I lost the page. Oops. Oops. I mean the site. >> No. >> Can you can you hear me? >> Yes,
>> we can hear. >> Oh, I Let's see. Okay, let me see if I can There we go. Okay, for some reason I I lost it. So, um there'll be that 20 day um uh appeal period and then you can pull the building permit and get started
on your project. So, congratulations. >> Great. >> Thank you. >> Thank you very much. You're very welcome. >> All right. Portion adjourned. Oh yes, this this portion of this is
adjourned. Yes, >> folks. >> Thank you. >> Thank you >> guys. You want me to you want to chat real quick or you have a five minutes? >> Um >> we probably want to join a different Zoom. >> Yeah, different zoom.
>> Yeah. All right. >> I'll send you a link. Okay. >> Okay. >> Good day to you. Okay. And now we have uh Megie Quackenbush, I believe, and Marian McCrech representing. >> Okay.
>> Just waiting for them to accept the invitation to join panel. Good afternoon. >> Hi everyone. >> Hello. So, everyone's here that needs to be here. So, and the time is right. So, I'm going to call to order the hearing upon
the application of Richard Ducat and Margaret Quackenbush through their attorney Mary Marian Mcketric at 61 Marilyn Road, Milton Mass. dated March 27th, 2025, seeking a special permit or variance to
build a 35 foot by 25 24 foot two-story addition to the rear of the existing structure. The property is located in a resident C zoning district. The proposed addition would be built at a distance of 24.2 ft from the rear lot line, whereas
the Milton zoning bylaw article 10 section 275-10.4A 4A requires that new buildings or portions of buildings be set back a minimum distance of 30 feet from the rear lot line. Therefore, we have
scheduled this hearing this evening um to see if we can um issue a um some help on on that. Um, in the file I have the application
um the denial letter for the application. I have um a summary um complete, you know, lovely two-page summary of what the um applicants
propose to do. Uh we have a plot plan and a locust map as well as um elevations and plans for the proposed building. There's also a quick lane deed
showing that the applicants are in fact the owners of the property in question. And we also have um letters from or they're the same letter basically saying to the Milton Board of
Appeals, I or we have reviewed plans for an addition at 61 Maryland Road with our neighbors Maggie Quackenbush and Rick Ducat. We understand that zoning relief will be required in order to construct the proposed addition and we have no objection to the board of appeals
granting their requested relief. and that um the people assigning those um we have 28 and 29 Garfield Road neighbors as well as Maryland Road neighbors at
51, 54, 69 and 60. Um we also have um maps online site showing the um the buildings in question
in the neighborhood and a property record card from the um from town hall. Um let's see. So, I'm going to
turn it over to Attorney McAtric and like to hear about the uh the applicant's need for and um what they propose to do with their property. >> Thank you. I'm Mary McTans.
Um this is um as you've already explained this is an application to build a rear addition to the home uh at 61 Maryland Road. Um so a few relevant facts about that property as it exists is that the um the home was constructed
in 1940 on an 8,232 ft lot. Um, it happens that according to the certified plot plan that the applicants had prepared, the house is located at a slightly non-conforming front setback of 19.8 ft rather than 20
ft. That's on Maryland Road. And then a non-conforming right side setback that's with your back to Maryland Road of 19.8 ft rather than 20 ft. So, um, the house was built after zoning was adopted in Milton for one reason or another,
possibly because, um, the road may have been accepted later and a piece may have been taken off or something. But in any case, it is a slightly non-conforming setbacks, but it's not a pre-existing non-conforming structure according to the legal definition of such a structure. Um, simply an existing
structure uh, built in 1940. So, um the other characteristics of the lot though that are significant are this is a corner lot and um because it's a corner lot and because it's it's a very attractive colonial style home um facing
Maryland Road, the other side um the the other street frontage is on Garfield Road and the setback is only about it's just about at the legal setback of 20 ft. that means that um and on the other side the setback is you know slightly
less than it's allowed to be. So it there's really no way for the applicants to add um an addition to this house without going way into the side setbacks if that's what they were going to propose. On the other hand, the rear of
this lot is significantly more than the required 30 ft in the present time. and by building the addition onto the rear. They do have to go into the side setback, but only by about I think it's 5.8 ft. In any case, um let's see, it's
26.2 ft is the proposed setback. That is less than the requirement of 30, but it's not a huge amount less. I wouldn't say it's exactly day minimse, but um it's the best of the three locations where you could add an addition. You certainly wouldn't add an addition to
the front of the house. So um there is a lot there is a garage at the rear of the house at the present time. So the footprint of the present house includes that garage. In order to build this addition that garage will be removed and the addition will be constructed and the addition will have a garage on the first
floor. So the overall footprint with the new addition while larger than the current footprint has been calculated by the surveyor to still be conforming to lot coverage requirements. So there's no problem with any of the zoning requirements other than the existing
setbacks on the side and the fact that the new um that what we're concerned with here tonight is that the new addition will go into the the rear setback. Um the reasons for this there are a number of different reasons why the applicants have made this application.
um they they purchased in 2021 and since that time they have married, they have had a child and they've added a dog and they are contemplating you know perhaps having more children. So they would like to create this addition to create to
make enough living space for their family. They also want to continue to have a garage but have a garage that's an adequate size for their existing vehicles. Most of these older garages are a little bit small for the vehicles we have today. Um, and there's another
feature of their design um, which is that the there's going to be a side door facing Garfield Road and there will be a railing and um, a way to access that side door from the driveway that will be level. One of the um, applicants parents
uses a walker and a cane and has difficulty getting around. So this will create an accessible access accessible entrance for that parent. Finally, the addition of course will have a second story and the second story is going to have a master bath, um a bedroom and an
office. And the applicants have explained to me and I explained it in the application that they now work from home. Both of them work from home part of the time. So they really do need a home office. They need the extra space in order to create the home office. Um
so the there are a number of advantages to the way this um addition is designed. It's in the rear of the house. It doesn't change the front appearance. Um this is a very traditional colonial style home. It's really attractive. Um and they didn't want to change the way the house looks from the front. Um
there's plenty there's a quite a bit of room in the backyard. And when they're doing this construction work, they are also intending to um improve the the um landscaping and a a fence in the rear yard. So, there'll be some improvements
to the rear landscaping that come along with this addition. And as you have already heard, the neighbors on relevant sides, particularly neighbors to the rear, they've all sent in letters saying that they have no objection to granting the required relief for this addition.
So this is a variance and so um in my view the justification for the variance is this is a corner lot. The existing location for the house means that the least intrusive way to create an addition to this house is at the rear.
You can't really do it on the sides and you certainly wouldn't want to do it to the front. Those would all create much more of a um change for the neighbors and for their view of the home. So, and the and the applicants um this is this is addition request is so similar to
many others that we've seen before the board of appeals. The the desire to have a master bathroom and a bedroom when you have children is one I guess we all share. Um and and if your house um can be added on to to do that. It certainly
makes it a more valuable and desirable property for the owners. It also makes the home because of this design an attractive um building for the neighborhood. It's not going to be substantially detrimental to the neighborhood. So, I think the proposal addresses the limitations of the lot. It
meets the needs of this family and there is no substantial detriment to surrounding properties because of the design. And one other feature that I'll point out that um is very desirable is that they're rebuilding the garage. they will continue to have a place to park or they will have a better place to park
their cars off the street and our streets are pretty crowded in Milton and this is always a benefit to the neighborhood to have a garage that you can use on the site. That concludes my remarks. Um if the applicants want to add anything if um if you'll permit that
um they can. I'm I've completed my statement. >> Okay. applicants. >> Um, well, I mean, I don't know that we have anything much different to add. Um, I think we just want to say that, you know, we're very excited about, um, we
love our home and we're excited about this opportunity to kind of improve on it and, um, I don't know if you have anything to add. >> Yeah. No, I think we love the home and I think hopefully this makes the home better for us and the neighborhood. >> Yes.
>> Okay. I had one question. Um, The locust map shows um uh who you know I've ticked off who had sent in um you know neighbors who had sent in um that they had no problems with it. I didn't
see anything from 55 Maryland Road. Was there um any backstory to that or anything? >> Um yes, I'm happy to um jump in on that. So, our neighbor at 55 Maryland um is u
an elderly woman um who I think we have kind of surmised she has not been in great health. Um >> so we have left um plans uh at her house. We addressed it to her and to her family because we know she's had a lot
of family visiting. Um, we've dropped materials a couple of times and just I I think that they have a lot going on and we just haven't heard from them. >> Okay, that's that's very helpful. Um, that way, you know, we do know that it's not they they've got notice of it as
well as um have seen plans and so forth and if they had chosen to do something, they could have. >> Okay. Is there anyone else around that wanted to speak on this bill? We have no members of the public who are asking to speak.
>> Okay, then I'm going to uh close the evidentiary portion of the hearing and decide on this right now. This looks like um a really wellthoughtout um plan um for adding on to your home, which is um not exactly in tight conditions, but
but constrained conditions since you have roads on two sides. And you know, I have lived on corners for both of my houses, and it's a little it's a little tricky sometimes, but um but you I think you found a very um very attractive way of
adding to the house and making it more livable for you um with your growing family as well as for the change in circumstances with um you know, needing to have um the real estate at home to to to um deal with work. So, um I am
granting the variance. Um and of course it will be, you know, subject to following um the plans that you have, but I see no reason that you'd be wanting to change those. I hope so. Um so, um congratulations on your um on
your permit. Uh not your permit, your yes. Yes. Special permit. And um good luck with um good luck with the building process. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Do you want me to um draft a decision? This is a variance, by the way, and not a special permit.
>> It's not pre-existing. Gotcha. Gotcha. Gotcha. Yeah, I knew that. >> Otherwise, it's the strangest thing, but if the house were built before 1938, there would be an easier standard to meet. It's just the way it works. >> Right. Right. >> Yes. Do you want >> close but no cigar? Yes. >> Yeah, exactly. If you want me to draft
something and send it along to uh Mr. Don Donn, I can >> That would be great. Then we could turn it around quicker. >> Happy to do it. Thank you. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Good luck. >> Thanks. >> Good day to all.
And that inter 61 Maryland Road, I believe. Yes, Miss Don Hugh King. >> This Idia Thirsten coming on for the next hearing. Okay, are we at the right time? We
certainly are. So, um, just waiting for them to accept their invitation to panel. Good afternoon. You're on mute. >> Good afternoon. How are you all?
>> Excellent. Nice to see you. >> Nice to see you. and we are here zoning administrator Virginia Donahghue King. She will be leading the hearing. Okay. >> Nice to meet you. >> Good to meet you too. So I'm going to
call to order our third hearing for the afternoon upon the application and I apologize if I don't get your names right. Idia and Rashard Thirsten um through their attorney Marian Mcketric of 1054 Brook Road Milton Mass dated
April 1st 2025 speak seeking a special permit or variance to build a 35 ftx 20 foot twostory addition combined with an 18x 20 foot one-story addition to the left side of the existing structure. The
property is located in a resident C zoning district. The proposed project would be built at a distance of 5.9 ft from the left side lot line. Whereas the builtin zoning bylaw article 10 section 275-10.3
sideyards requires that new buildings or portions of buildings be set back a minimum of 10 ft from the side lot line. Therefore, we are having our meeting today in order to address that issue. Um, my name is Virginia Donahghue King.
I'm the zoning administrator, a member of the board of appeals, and I'll be making the decision on this um, application this afternoon. In the file, we have the board of appeals application. We have um a letter from
attorney Marian McKetric um delineating some of the um salient features of um why the uh why this would be a a good thing to um grant. We have the denial letter of the um of the building the initial building
permit request. We have a plot plan of the locust. We have a locust map as well. And we have elevations and schematics of what the
um the additions would be included as. We have a quick claim deed showing the ownership of the applicants of this property as well as the property record card for Milton for
this home as well as um a more detailed map of the neighborhood. We also have um two letters from um the neighbors on either side of the applicants at 1060
and 1050 Brook Road saying that they have reviewed plans for the addition at 1054 Brook Road with our neighbors Rashad and Idia. Is it IDIA? Idia. >> Idia. Yeah, like India with no N. You got it. >> Idia. Okay. Thirst. We understand that
zoning relief from the board of appeals will be required in order to construct the proposed addition and we have no objection to the board of appeals granting the requested relief. So, I'm going to turn it over to Attorney McK to um give us the salient features of your
application and and why I should grant it. Attorney McAtric. >> Thank you. I'm Mary McAtric and I represent the applicants. Um, and as you've just heard in the description, the applicants proposed to construct an addition to the left side of their their
home. Now, I'm speaking with my back to Brook Road. The left side of the house is the side where the addition will go. Um, >> wait, with your back to Brook Road, the left Okay, got >> my back to Brook Road. It's always confusing what which one's left, which one's right. >> Right. Right. Right.
So um the primary reason for this proposal is I visited um the applicants in their home and we had a conference before we I decided or they decided to go forward um and they showed me the layout of the house at the present time. This will be a reorganization of the
first floor layout. Um this will be a replacement of a family room that's on the left side of the house right now. The family room while it looked nice to me is not properly insulated. So, it's very cold in the winter, it's probably pretty hot in the summer. It's just not
a properly constructed addition. Um, what they propose to do in general is that they're going to move the kitchen over to the left side. It's going to be to the rear um of the house. Uh they want to construct a two-story addition in the front and they want to have a
garage on the first on the ground level. Um and then they're going to have a master bedroom and a bath on the second floor. It sounds familiar. A lot of people want to do this type of improvement. Um, but in the rear, they're going to extend to the rear or they're going to replace what's there
and they're going to have a onestory part of this addition and I believe that's where the new kitchen is going to be located. Um, so the information about the site that's important to this application is that this is a case of a house that was built
before 1938. So when Milton adopted its current zoning bylaw in 1938, this house was already constructed and it is on a nice large lot. It's in a residency district. The lot is 12,587 square ft. However, the house is built
at a left side setback of only 8.5 ft and a a right side setback of only 8 feet. So the house is considered pre-existing non-conforming. It's legal as is. Um, the other feature of this lot
is that it backs onto a stream. So, running along the back edge of this lot is a stream. And when you have a stream on the back edge of your lot, there are all kinds of um environmental um regulations and laws that prevent you from constructing anything within a
significant distance of the stream. So, any new construction too close to that stream would be prohibited. It means that a lot of the area of that back lot really they can't build an addition on. So that's a feature you you don't really see know it unless you know those about
those environmental limitations. So what they're proposing to do here and what they can do with a special permit standard rather than the variance would be they could they are proposing to intensify the left side nonconformity.
So at its closest point, the non-con the left side now of the new addition will be 5.9 uh ft 5.9 ft from the left side lot line rather than 8.5 ft. So they're reducing or intensifying that nonconformity.
No, there'll be no change to the right side nonconformity. And they're building up one story from what's there now. So both of those changes intensify the existing non-conformity. they require a special permit from the board of appeals. The
standard for a special permit is no substantial no inc increased substantial detriment to neighboring properties. So the the inference there is that when you have a non-conforming structure, there is some kind of existing detriment
because you're closer to the lot line than normally would be allowed. um if you want to intensify that non-conforming setback, you have to show that you won't increase um or substantially increase any detriment to neighbors. So design is very important.
They have a good architect here who has taken great pains to design a left side addition that looks, you know, it looks like it might have been designed originally as part of the house. The house will be wider. Um, the addition will have a peaked roof over the top at
a right angle to the existing angle of the roof, but it will be at the same height. And the windows are designed to match the windows in the existing house. And the first floor of this addition will have a garage in it. So, the applicants will have a place to garage
at least some of their family cars. Um what they explained or what we explained in the application and what they explained to me is they recent they only purchased this home quite recently in 2023 but they are a family of five. So the husband and wife and three children
are currently aged 13 9 and 4. Their 13-year-old son um will soon be old enough to drive. Who knows what effect that will have on the number of cars required. It's always desirable to have off- streetet parking and preferably a garage that's large enough for family
cars. So, that's always a benefit to the neighborhood. And by building this addition, the applicants are creating a usable, you know, modern dimensional garage for their cars. Um, they also are a very tall family. Um, and they I think
they provided their heights. Rashard is six 6' 5 in. Idia is 5 foot 11 inches. Not sure how old the children are right now, but they'll probably be tall. In any case, they need some room. They need good living space in this house. And the house is really nice inside, but some of
the rooms are kind of small right now. So, the reorganization of the first floor will be a great benefit, and it will really improve the value of this already very lovely home. Um, so the the important part of this is the substantial detriment standard. It
definitely requires that your neighbors weigh in and tell you what they think. And in this case, the applicants have contacted and spoken with each of the neighbors on the sides that are anywhere near. So the side next to the addition, the neighbors sent a letter in saying they don't have any objection to the
relief. The um neighbors on the other side who are further away have also said they don't have any objection. And then although Brook Road is wide, also considered to have interest in this are the neighbors across the street. So, two neighbors directly across the street have also sent letters in saying they
have no objection to granting um the relief required. And I I don't know, in my mind, at least the fact that the neighbors do feel that way. Um the applicants are relatively new homeowners in this neighborhood. They took the time to go out and talk to their neighbors.
Um, I think it it has considerable weight and certainly looking at the design of the addition with the detailed architectural plans you received. You can see that it's nicely designed. It will still be a beautiful home and it will still fit in with all those other beautiful homes on Brook Road. That
pretty much sums up my remarks. You already summarized the addresses for the neighbors who sent in supporting letters unless the applicants want to add anything to that. >> Okay. Um, Bill, are there any people that wanted to weigh in tonight on this?
>> I don't see any members of the public who want to weigh in. >> Well, that's that's great. Then I'm going to close the evidentiary portion of the hearing and decide this right now. This is a very attractive house that will become even more attractive.
It's a nicely designed layout and um and the elevations show it to be continue will continue to be an attractive house. Um there's there's a need there, you know, um that four-year-old might be small now, but he
or she will be a tall person later. So, um, and I I I'm not that I'm anywhere as tall as you are, but I, you know, I remember looking at houses and saying, "The people that live here must be very small." But, um, and so we did not buy those houses.
But, at any rate, um, I certainly understand where you're coming from. You just need to have a little bit more room to to, uh, work around in the house. So, um uh I I see that there's no no substantial detriment to the neighborhood by having this um addition
built and so I am therefore granting the um this the special permit on this and congratulations on that special permit and um good luck with the building process. >> Thank you so much. >> There be no problems. >> And I'm going to tell you the
13-year-old is already my height. So, >> oh my goodness. >> Well, it's wonderful to be tall. >> Exactly. >> I would be happy to draft something if that would be helpful. Do you want me to do that? >> That would be great. Thank you. Yes, >> I will do that. Thank you. Thanks very
much. >> Okay. >> Town meeting. >> Well, good luck. >> I said I'll see you at town meeting as well. >> Take care now. Thank you. Take care. Bye. Bye. Bye. >> Good night, everybody. Thank you. >> Good night.