Let's begin. Okay. Call to order the April 29th meeting of the planning board. Uh we'll take a roll call. Members present. Mr. Abrams.
What's that? Roll call here. Mr. Abrams here. Mr. Castanza absent. Miss Hoff Mrs. Hoffman absent. Mr. Rivera here. Present. Miss. Simmons. Hurling here.
Present. Mrs. Tamatopoulos here. Present. Mrs. Sullivan. Absent. Okay. Uh the first order of business is a public hearing regarding an amendment zoning amendment which would require any
zoning relief for the reduction of parking space requirements to be allowed only by special permit of the city council. Is anybody in favor? Are there any proponents here to speak to this
tonight? Hearing and seeing none. Are there any opponents to speak? Oh, did you? Um, just one question for information. So, if it's not gone before the city council, do you mind?
How do we have you want to press the So, if we do not have a a committee vote from the city council, how do we have this before us now? Well, they're they're looking for the the planning board to make a rea
recommendation under the state zoning act on zoning amendments. The planning board has to issue a recommendation one way or the other or a modification to the amendment to the city council within 21 days and then they can vote on it.
So, if the planning board takes no action, the city council can take action uh after 21 days. And again, the planning board is just a recommendation to the city council. So after 21 days, it goes back to the
city council and they will determine what they want to do. Correct? So whether ours is only a recommendation, yes, no, maybe whatever. Yes. No. Yes. With modifications or
and we don't have another meeting in 21 days. No, our next meeting is May 19th. So, we have to decide tonight on something. Otherwise, it gets tabled. If it gets tabled, yeah, we won't be able
to make the 21 days. Well, you need opponents. Let's let's open it up first. So, we did the proponents. Are there any opponents here to speak on this tonight? Hearing and seeing none. None. Okay, we'll close the public hearing and
we'll go on to our regular meeting. Uh first order of business is approval of previous meeting minutes. Um, do we have a motion to approve the me previous meeting minutes? A motion approved. Motion by Mr.
Castanza. We have a second. Second. Second. All in favor? All oppose. I'm Stemtopolis, by the way. Mr. Mr. Stetopolis, I am so sorry. I'm looking at my my sheet here.
and his name pops up. Okay. Okay. We'll go on to the next order of business, which is the vote on a recommendation to the city council with respect to the zoning amendment, which would require a special permit by the city council for any
reduction in the required number of parking spaces required for a development. Is there discussion by the board or so you had more thoughts on this?
I'm thinking about a minimum. So if it's a one family house turning into a two family house or a two family house go into a three family house. Do we want to burden the city council with one, two, and three families? Are
we talking development? Are we talking more than eight, more than 10? Do we want to put a number on it as a recommendation? I personally think that's a good idea because uh uh you could put a number on a multifamilies
which is three or more units uh in a single and two family would be under the control of the zoning board of appeals for parking variances. So I I believe get I believe this I believe the building code and it
goes back and forth. So you have a code for one and two family and then you had you had a code that you needed a sprinkler system. It said three or more. Now I believe it's more than three. I'm not sure.
So on on that premise because you still have a one and two which does not need a sprinkler and you're you and the ZBA can handle that. They've shown they can handle one and twos and they listen to the community. But if you
go to three, four, you you're talking uh you're talking still not a development. Do we want to make a a recommendation of the city council? Do
we want to say four or four units or more or I don't want to a typical three decka like in like a beach one or a three decker in Immaculate or a three decker in Shirley. Do you really want to bring
that to the neighborhood? I think the zoning board of appeal would be much better for that. So, I'm saying four or more units, proposed units, if that's okay. Is that reasonable? I also think that it might be helpful to suggest
modifications to the effect that we were speaking of earlier, right? Of of how many days it then how many days it then gets to to sit without agreement, right? So if it's then sitting for two weeks
without signature, without approval, does it then start the process all over again or is it an automatic in some fashion? No, they have they have council has 90 days to vote on a special permit. So then it wouldn't go back to ZVIA, it
would stay at council. Yeah. Okay. If it's if it's passed. So I it look it sounds like the motion on the floor is going to be a recommendation that u parking relief for four for
uh structures with four or more units uh would be allowed would be uh only allowed by special permit of the city council and one two and three unit structures would be allowed by varants
of the ZB. A is that is that correct? Yes, that's correct. Any any other further briefifications or any uh any other proposals?
No, I I agree with you. I think uh that will give both uh city council and uh zoning board appeals basically something to do rather than just have you know one of the boards making all the decisions.
Yeah. Yeah. And I I can tell you a lot of the multifamilies already that are non-conforming go through the city council for special permit and a lot of to increase the non-conformity and a lot of the non-conformities are with respect
to parking. So they have that authority already. So I think it's a I think it's a a solid and and reasonable recommendation. So the the the the motion on the floor again is uh to give the city council
authority for special permits for parking relief for structures with four or more units. This uh been a motion by Mr. Abrams. Is there a second? Second. Yes, I have a second.
Uh all in favor? Yes. Yes. Yes. All oppose? None. Yes. The recommendation will be go forward to the city council. So ordered. I believe there are there is no further business before the planning
board this evening. And uh we have a motion to adjourn.journ. Motion to second. Meeting is ajourned. Thank you. Thank you very much everyone.