okay good evening this is a regular meeting of the Princeton zoning Board of adjustment being held electronically via zoom on February 26 2025 at 7:30 p.m. pursuant to section 13
of the open public meeting adequate no notice of the time and place of this meeting has been given by prominent ly posting the sunshine notice of the Princeton zoning Board of adjustment such notice has been placed on the
official bulletin board at the municipal complex and by transmitting a copy of the notice to the Princeton packet town topics the times Trentonian and by filing a copy with the clerk of Princeton on February 21st
20125 and has been posted to the municipal website pursuant to the extension of the ongoing state of emergency by executive order 292 in accordance with the emergency remote public meetings protocol the
local public bodies to conduct a public meeting without physical attendance by members of the public notice that during this extension of the state of emergency all regular and special meetings of the Princeton Zoning Board of adjustment will be held
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municipal complex and on the Princeton website and are to be maintained throughout the year and by transmitting a copy of same to the Princeton packet town topics the times tonian Comcast media and by filing a copy thereof with
the clerk of Princeton notices have been placed on all window doors of the municipal complex okay Gloria can you pull the role please this Chen here miss Coulson here
Mr dkin here Mr Floy here Mr schriver here Mr Tenon bomb here Mr Stein Miss Donna yes chairman Cohen here thank
you okay we have uh five minutes to approve um copies of those of all are in your packets um I guess we'll take the first one here
uh we'll do these individually Karen um if you want to do them collectively you just I think name each set of minutes and then just ask for each one and then we collectively approve them all okay all right um well
our first one which is trying to see if I have a copy of it actually December I'm looking for the I'm looking for the copy of the uh August 28th I don't seem to have it
okay I will look online okay so we have the first one would be August 28th um do there should be a copy in your packets are you gonna take them all collectively
or you want us to well I'll through each one I'll go through each one and ask for comments and after we get all done then as Karen said we can vote on them at one time just bringing up the 28 on my
screen okay um all right are there any com comments from any members about the me the minutes of uh August 28 2024 okay the next one would be the minutes for the meeting on September 25th
2024 questions or comments okay no the next one is October 23rd 2024 same thing question or comments
okay the next one is November 133 2024 and the last one is December 11 2024 okay if there are no comments um would someone like to make a motion for approve I'll move that we vote to
approve thank you second I'll second Floyd thank you okay Floria can you call the rooll please Karen how would I um do with the people that were absent like on the on
the the first set of meetings Cohen Coulson and Tenon were out on the second set it was unver well I'm going to have to uh we're gonna have to do these revise my advice
now we're gonna have to go Motion for each one and Claud you'll have to indicate who can vote and who can't for each set all right let's go back and so we'll take them individually and first one is August
28th and I can't move to approve that one right because you were out I believe I was out also okay yes you were so that was ber second who second
that I'll second okay so miss Chen yes Mr L yes Mr Shriver yes Miss Donna yes okay okay September
25th uh Miss Chim and Mr triver okay someone like to make a motion on that on September 25th minutes I'll move I'll move Pro Floyd
second pson yes Mr Floyd yes Mr tenom yes Miss Donna yes German Cohen yes thank you okay okay the 23r 1023 um
Haren you were out that day so moved a second Eve okay B Miss Chen yes Miss Coulson
yes Mr Floy yes Mr Shriver yes Miss Donna yes chairman Cohen yes thank you next one for November 13 everybody was in attendance
okay I'll move who was um sorry har Beck shriber Miss Shen yes Miss Coulson yes
Mr Floy yes Mr Shriver yes Mr tenom yes chairman Cohen yes Miss Donna yes thank you December 11 everybody was in attendance as well so moved second
Miss Chen yes Miss Coulson yes Mr Floy yes Mr Scher yes Mr tenom yes Miss Donna yesman Cohen yes thank you okay um
before we review the um resolutions there in our packets was the uh Zoning Board of adjustment activity report for 2024 uh in graft form have have you had an opportunity to
look at it members yes are there any any questions or comments do we have to approve it do Derek do we approve this we do we do it
uh by uh just majority or how do we do this yeah I think it can be done well somebody has an objection to it okay
just okay all right does somebody want to make a motion on this so moved a second all right what you miss Chen yes Miss Coulson yes Mr
Floy yes Mr schriver yes Mr tenom yes Miss Donna yes Sherman Cohen yes thank you all right we have um two resolutions this evening that were in your packet um
the first is uh case number Z24 Dash 535 874 Kingston Road Block 4703 lot
35 have you reviewed this are there any corrections or comments if not if someone like to make a motion I'm Mo approval of this resolution thank you I'll second it pson thank
you okay Gloria one one second Miss Chen yes Miss Coulson yes Mr Floy yes Mr Shriver yes Mr tenom yes chairman Cohen yes thank you okay
our second resolution is uh case number z245 7358 Cleveland Lane uh block 5.01 lot 11 once again this resolutions in your packet if you reviewed it have questions
or comments or if not a motion please I'll move approval Floyd thank you okay okay cloria please call roll who second that oh I did
yes Miss Chen yes Miss Golson yes Mr Floy yes Mr Shriver yes Mr tanom yes German Cohen yes thank you okay um
we have one application this evening it is case Z24 d574 251 Eder Stone Road Block 8204 lot 7 in the r2t zone um Caren are all the
notices in order yes the notices are in order and the board has jurisdiction tonight and I will swear Derek in for the evening uh Derek do you swear or affirm your testimony this evening will be truthful yes ma'am I do thank you thank
you Derek can you summarize your memo please yes sir thank you um the applicant is are Kevin and uh Devin bonic uh seeking C1 and C2 variances to permit the construction of a new home in exception to the required
lot width Frontage and area um subject property is located within the r2t Zone um required lot area 65340 ft the existing is 3978 and lot width and lot Frontage
requirements are both 175 square F feet and both are 150 square feet the applicant is proposing to demolish the existing home and construct a new approximately 6200 squ foot home featuring a full partially
finished basement three car motor Court garage living room dining room family room office sun room six bedrooms five full bass a powder room um the following variances are requested lot area requirements six 5 340 Square ft the
existing is 3978 and lot Frontage in width the requirement is 175 and they are both 150 ft um the applicant should advise if they have approached any adjoining land owners to either sell part of their land uh to reduce the lot width in Frontage
and area non-compliances um they've offered they're seeking consideration under both the C1 and the C2 variances if you have any questions I'd be glad to address them sir okay um I see Mr Kennedy is here I
assume you're representing okay Mr chairman um thank you so much um members of the board Ryan Kennedy from Stevens and Lee here on behalf of the homeowner applicants as Mr Bridger said U while we did request a C1
or C2 this is your classic C1 hardship variant for an existing undersized lot um if we were in the burrow rather than the former Township we probably wouldn't be here tonight uh their proposal is to build an otherwise conforming home on their lot um and as
when we take you through our presentation you'll see uh there was not an option to get additional Land from the properties on either side both of which are also non-conforming as to area and to do so would make them even more non-conforming in the case of the one uh to the right that we'll look at there's
a shed in the way as well unfortunately um we'll try to make this uh simple and and quick for you this evening um our one witness we've got the homeowners um developer Daniel Bari um I'd like to have him sworn in we can take you through our presentation Mr Bari do you swear or
affirm your testimony this evening will be truthful we can't hear you for some reason I don't know if you're muted that's yeah can you speak up because we couldn't hear you that last part we could
hear okay um uh Daniel you want to quickly introduce yourself in relation to the project and the homeowners and if you'd like I can share my screen or if you'd like to share yours yeah I'll share my screen just give me one second if it's all right um when we do that uh Miss Casey we have one exhibit uh this
evening to Mark as a one that we provided uh we should be going through we expect 11 slides thank you uh I assume everybody sees my screen we got you good uh good evening board members my name is Daniel barski
and I will be presenting um the application for 251 Eder Stone Road on behalf of the applicants and the owners Kevin and Devin barck um the baron necks currently live actually in this neighborhood on 280
edger Stone Road for the past seven years they are a family of seven Kevin uh and Devin and their five children all who are under the age of nine um they've currently outgrown their
current space on 280 edstone road so in October of 2024 they purchased the lot on 251 Edge Stone to design uh and build a new home they're very EXC excited to stay in the
neighborhood that they love uh in a home that better suits their needs Kevin and Devin hired me to help them through the engineering and Architectural design the permitting process H along with the zoning board variances uh the submission and
hopefully tonight's approval so I have um relatively short presentation it's uh pretty simple but I'll run it through and starting on slide two um is the tax map again the property is located on 251 Eder Stone Road Block
8204 lot 7 in the R2 Zone on slide three is a Google Earth image of 251 edger Stone which is highlighted in yellow you can see the tennis courts from the hunt school at the bottom of your screen and um
actually uh to the rear of the property is Greenway Meadows Park the baron XS are seeking relief for the following bulk requirements which are highlighted in yellow uh minimum lot area where
6,340 square feet are required the existing is 3978 square feet as well as relief for lot width and lot Frontage where 100 75 ft are required um and 100 ft are
existing all the other bulk requirements are in compliance with the R2 Zone on SL five I've Illustrated a snapshot of the neighborhood and the neighboring Lots outlined in red while 251 edger stone is
outlined in yellow so interestingly enough out of the 34 Lots in this snapshot of the neighborhood not one of these Lots meets the required um zoning bulk requirements out of 34 of these Lots uh none meet the one
and a half acre lot area standard and only nine out of 34 meet the lot width or lot Frontage uh but essentially none of them are conforming to the Zone um including lot seven on 251 Eder Stone
and on the following slide six um again 251 edger stone is highlighted in yellow Again The Greenway Meadows Park is in the rear and the two lots directly adjacent to 251 edger Stone are also non-conforming lot six is non-conforming
in respect to lot area lot width and lot Frontage and Lot 8 is non-conforming in lot area so there is no opportunity to purchase a piece of the neighboring land to make 251 edger Stone more conforming without making the neighboring Lots uh
more nonconforming uh it's worth noting too that lot six um was in front of the zoning board uh in 2019 for the same exact variances which were granted which was for lot area lot width and lot
Frontage part of the requirements for lot area and with variances in the Township uh is to share the proposed house elevation and plans with the municipal zoning officer Derek Bridger uh Derek has reviewed the plans and found them to meet the requirements of
the neighborhood character ordinances on the next couple slides I like to share the proposed house elevations with you um so I'll just go through them quickly uh this is the proposed uh front elevation um slide eight shows the rear
elevation with a deck from the first floor and a walk out basement um the topography on the lot allows uh for a walk out basement because of the dive down to the rear slide nine is the right side
elevation and finally slide 10 is the left side elevation and uh as Derek described there's a motor core through car garage um so actually the garage actually garages aren't even visible from the street um the baron are
obviously excited to move this forward um and clearly they want to stay in the neighborhood that's why they purchase this land so that concludes my prese presentation I'm hoping to receive zoning board approval tonight so that the baron family will be able to stay in
the neighborhood they love in a home suited to their needs uh for their family and their five children I believe we have demonstrated that both the positive and negative criteria for C1 variants that have been satisfied as a recap not one of the Lots in the
Neighborhood meets the R2 zoning bulk requirements including 251 edger Stone and there's no way to relieve the existing non-conformities of lot area Frontage or width by cooperating with adjacent neighbors um so thank you for your time and consideration and I'm
happy to take any questions if there are any board members any questions Mr barski yeah I have a question um I have actually have a question of of Mr barski and I guess Mr Bridger um I think Mr barski said that the adjacent lot six
was also been for the same type of variance um and so I would ask them what what was or wasn't granted to lot six and then the second part of the question is um eight I understand is also from what you
say um under siiz with the president zoning does that relieve Derek the applicant of having to ask them in in lot eight for more property I mean I I think it does I'll defer to Karen but I
mean if if they don't have the lot width or the the lot area to Grant any relief to the applicant it's really an exercising futility so don that that is the position the board has uh been consistently taking that if the
surrounding lots are already non-conforming um if they were to give land uh it would just increase their non-conformity further so that it's a question of who gets the variance so that's why the
board has taken the position if that's the case there isn't a need to make a formal request to either to any of the surrounding property owners that are non-c conformed me okay and I just wanted to ask Mr barer or Mr Bridger
whoever knows what was the you know the type of variances requested by lot six and what was or wasn't granted actually it's funny because when uh when my wife and I first got married there was a 100y Old Ranch House there
that we moved into so we actually lived next door for four or five years after we moved out I brought the application myself to get variances on that lot for with Frontage in area and we we did receive the variances and there is a new
house built there also a young family with children that live there now so that house was also taken down and a new house built yeah it was when I was living there was a two-bedroom ranch house so yeah now there's a substantially bigger home with
a new family there but yeah I was in front of the board I believe it was 2018 or 2019 with the application yep that's 259 259 right y yep you're correct
thanks any other questions of the applicant of Mr barski or Mr Kennedy yes um I know uh that there are a lot of mature trees on that property and I wonder what plans you have to preserve
and protect the trees as much as possible I I I believe that some of the in in the front it's going to be as you have it designed it looks to me like the driveway kind of would go right through one or two of them so but I'm just curious to know what you have
planned you know to tell you the truth we haven't gone far enough along with um a site plan engineer uh in designing exactly where curb Cuts would go and what trees would be impacted but certainly we would meet the requirements
of the mun IP ality and all the tree ordinances and get any approvals from the municipal arborus and any kind of work that we would be doing so you have't you haven't got I I noticed that you didn't that wasn't included in what you gave us so I that's
why I asked you haven't gotten to that yet no we haven't gotten into it yet but we do um uh we are sensitive to the impact of trees and obviously we're going to take that seriously
but moving forward you know the municipality has a lot of rules and regulations that revolve around the trees plus the municipal Arbor sign off and clearly we're going to comply with all of those okay thank
you board members any other questions okay um Mr Kennedy will'll open it up to the public do you want to say anything before we do that just to thank the board again tonight um for your consideration again this is feel your
your classic uh C1 for the U narrowness of this particular lot and lack of Remedy unfortunately other than to come to this board and again I'll note I know you did your annual report here tonight but I the rules in the bur former burrow are a little different here and the township lots do in this scenario have
to come here where burrow ones do not um I I do like having a a job and helping people with these variances but also I'd be perfectly happy not to uh um have them have to hire an attorney to to come here as well so I'll just note that thank okay
um we're GNA open the meeting up to the public Claudia has anybody indicated they'd like to speak on this application there are no hands okay give it a minute here all right we have no public comment
I'll close the meeting to the public once again Mr Kennedy before we go into executive session you have anything you'd like to add nothing else Mr chairman thank you so much for everyone's time tonight you're welome okay board members um
questions uh discussion on this or would someone like to make a motion I'll move to approve it it seems straightforward pretty much nothing we can do about it um not that we would um but um I agree
with you um okay someone like to Second this motion I'll second it Floyd any questions on the motion okay Claudia can you call a ro
please miss CH yes Miss Coulson Eve you're muted yeah you're right yes sorry Floy yes Mr Shriver yes Miss Donna
yes Mr Teno yes chairman Cohen yes thank you it's approved okay thank you thank you mersen good luck Mr bar care um if there is nothing else
this evening we are adjourned um Mr dokin it's good to meet you and um we'll see you again next month and don't get used to the meetings being this um brief this is the shortest meeting we've had
in what over a decade over a decade the shortest meeting we've ever had yeah I think so Steve yeah pretty much he Mr topkins good luck to us was a little see that the meeting was three hours and
now I can tell my family that they you they're always 20 minutes night everybody night you again good night everyone hey Derek yes
sir are we are we done can we can I ask you a question Claudia are we off the uh public no I gotta close it you can call the office I'll pick up the call no never mind I just curiosity I'll I'll talk to you later good night good night
good night