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e e e e e e uh am I on thank you um okay good evening everyone welcome to the township of Springfield Board of adjustment meeting for March
18th 2025 um adequate notice of this meeting has been given in accordance with the Sunshine Law notice was published on January 2nd in the local Source One of the official newspapers for the township of Springfield for the year 2024 and
2025 and notice was posted in the Annex Building on January 2nd 2025 I forgot to announce that the time was 6:07 and we began our meeting can we please stand to salute the flag iedge un
States andice all may we please have a roll call Mr Steven Hawkin Mr Michael WX here Mr Steven bam present Miss Marlin afano here Mr Peter
shitz here miss Ana Dawson here Mr Randy Pearlman here Vice chair Mark Cunningham here and chairwoman Jody Cohen here we have a forum thank you uh the first order of business is a resolution uh for application
2025-the 22 22 Route 22 East loock 3101 lot 32 this was uh minor site plan approval with bulk and use variances for solar panels and Associated equipment has every board member had an opportunity to review the resolution are
there any questions or comments if there are none is there a motion to approve the resolution thank you second jump at once Mr shitz yes Vice chair Cunningham yes Mr wxin yes Mr PB
yes M naano yes Miss doson yes yes thank you all right moving on to our one application this evening that that is application 2025-the how are you good evening attorney Harvey frer on behalf of the
application for 2025 -2 Kasha Associates LC U with any luck uh we'll have a very quick evening for this it's a rather easy one uh and the first thing I'd like to do is to confirm with Madame secretary for the board that
jurisdiction was uh had that the publication and proof of publication with green cards notices have been duly reserved on on the board I can confirm okay Jance beinged in this board allowing me to proceed uh this is uh a
set of plans and I'll have Mr kosha testify but uh just take a look at and we'll be talking about the photographs of an old house that's on the corner on Sumit Road 199 uh Ro uh which built well before our
uh the current zoning board uh zoning applic matter of fact Little Brook where the droning property that meets the criteria of current zoning requirements for Lo for that
uh but uh run down through the house to purchase and redesign and improve the neighborhood greatly uh with that I would ask the
uh Mr kha have you testify please raise your right hand do you swear or affirm to tell the truth yes please give us your full name spell your last name and give us your business address Carmine kosher C CIA
a 1061 Charles Street Mountainside New Jersey 07092 thank you may call you Corine certainly okay and what is your relationship to the uh owner of the kach associate saly I am kach
assoc and uh set of plans that uh have they for the board were they submitted as part of the application yes and they're already in the record we only need to Mark exhibits
that were not presented more than 10 days before today regarding the the photographs that are in sk0 the first part do they accurately reflect the house as it stands to yes they do and that's without
a garage it does have some type of lean to of a car that's correct all right and with regard that the architectural set of drawings they built to specifications yes they okay
and the architectural drawing on the top of that page that rendering is that an accur representation yes it is and with regard to that now we're asking for several variances one in
particular uh is the front yard set back tell us the uh present zoning requires a 50 foot uh setback from the uh property
line and what is the current setback the current is 44.4 feet okay so in fact you're not pushing the we're not changing that okay but you are going up with a matter of course because you're going up higher in the house that's correct you're not expanding the front
yard no okay so you're maintaining the front yard should as a matter of law we that right okay with a sidey yard set back can you tell same issues the existing or less than 10
ft on both sides they're existing we're not expanding that we're just building up above the first floor that's for the second floor not explaining that at all the uh third
one uh is we require a set variant also but in fact we're improving and call system with the uh the size how much does the current lock current lock lock coverage is
25.5t we're reducing it to 23.9 Ft okay and what is the requirement for the town currently 22.5 ft okay so you're reducing in the 25 to 23 with the 22 okay so in fact we improving the
improving the current conditions okay as far as the applications s besides those variances you're requiring uh are you modernizing the inside of the structure the inside yes and how are you doing that we doing kitchen we doing
bathrooms we doing uh basement all new air conditioning plumbing and electrical complete okay and you're also open open concept an open concept on the first four okay
and let's talk to the outside there's currently a deck on the back of the property that uh yeah that exist that existing deck is being demolished and the new deck is going to be uh constructed at the rear of the home
closer to the center of the yard as opposed to being close to the side street okay and you're still maintaining men's Ingress Andress through the front of the property on Summit road is same as it is yes not changing or
widen and where there is no parking no uh garage parking you're now adding parking Gage parking yeah yes two car Gage two car garage be a single door two car garage
not large enough to have a a two doors to have a divider in the middle and I would submit to the board that this application is the Minimus and its requirements greatly improves the neighborhood and will be an asset
municipality that I close our any questions for the applic thank you um can I just ask a question is is this a corner this is a corner lot right no it is not technically not technically not teally it isn't there's a strip of land
that's owned by the the resident residential property to the rear on the side of this property okay so where the garage is is will actually it is actually a sidey yard um the side it's it's it's viewed as a as a sidey yard
it's not a front it's not a corner thank you um okay any questions from the board yeah where is the air conditioning unit outside going to be I don't I I don't see it on here see there is an existing unit it's on the rear of the
house rear house be it be like under the where the deck is proposed now it's below the deck it's not shown but that's where it is if you look in the plan and the plan view of the new plan view shows the deck in the back yes I see it
yeah okay lastage and there going to be one zone air conditioning not sure air hasn't been designed yet preferably two zone is better first
one zone for first flooor and the second Zone second floor and forgive me if you said this already but the material on the house I'm sorry the material that you're looking for the exterior of the house it's going to be uh most likely a
a hearty siding material uh with trim ASAC trim all uh uh material that will not uh is not susceptive to elements it will withstand uh moisture and everything
else it with long lasting material the reduction in the lot size where is that going to come from the reduction in a lot size the at the rear of the house is a concrete uh patio in the back that we're going to remove you're going to remove okay are you changing the dimensions of
the driveway at all no not touching the driveway okay because I see that it it kind of extends beyond the current existing appear to be a carport type on the existing house the driveway seems like it goes beyond the carport so
it's quite a wide driveway that was done many many years I know but so you're staying within that footprint that's what stay within same footprint yes no change at all okay any other questions anything you want one question just to confirm under the deck so it doesn't
count as lot coverage is a permeable surface you're not going to have a hard surface no and for the board's edification the parking requirement in the s120 zone is two spaces in a garage right now it's non-conforming because of the carport it's a two-car garage
proposed so they're going to meet the ordinance requirement and remove a non-conforming thank you um okay and any questions for the applicant from members of the public
none any comments on the application for members of the public none all right thank you um I just have one more question oh okay sure sorry about that the placement of the AC units when you decide you know
what are they going to be in the same position where the existing units are yes okay yeah all right it'll be under the deck basically okay perfect all right okay um I believe that the relief that's yes did you say the condition
will be under the deck no no no that that's what I thought I heard deck is constru can you sorry just be try to speak into the microphone it's the new deck that's being constructed at the rear of the house the existing deck is going be demolished
just too close to the uh the side street right back of the house the air conditioning unit the existing one is below where that new deck is going to be and so the new ones will be in the same location okay sorry thank you before I go anyone else have any any
other questions any other comments okay good all right so um I think that the relief can be granted in this instance without any detriment to the neighboring properties and surrounding community and
for that reason I would be in favor of granting this application anyone's in agreement and would like to make a motion I'll move it Mr P bam yes M doson yes Mr wxin yes
Miss naano yes Mr shitz yes Vice chair Cunningham yes and chair Cohen yes motion passes congratulations than congratulations have a great night good evening yes nice to see you um any other
business motion to adjourn me second Mark and all in favor I excellent um did everyone see the note though I'm sorry on April we're moved to the 29th so it's not the second Tuesday
it'll be the last week before I leave no the location's the same yes thank you