this is a regularly scheduled meeting for which the date time and location is set forth in the annual notice of meetings adopted by the Waldo zoning board in accordance with the open public meetings act said annual notice has been filed with the burough clerk a copy
posted in the vestibule of the Waldick administration building and copies transmitted to the official newspapers of the burrow as designated by the governing body to the Bergen record and the Rididgewood News try to take roll call please mr neman
here mr sarakola here mr barkski here mr walsh here mr centennio here mr senzo here miss Lino here mr marjack here mr mitchell good evening everyone will everyone
please stand for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all
okay we're going to do the approval for the meeting minutes of March 26th has everyone read the meet the meeting minutes yes are there any comments could I have a motion to wave the reading of the minutes i make a motion to wave the reading of the
minutes ted first second rich second voice vote for approval of waving the reading of the minutes all in favor i opposed none motion to approve the minutes i make a motion to approve the minutes of
the March 26th meeting ted first i will second it rich second voice vote all in favor i I opposed none we have we have five resolutions
for this meeting has everyone read the resolutions are there any comments motion to wave the reading of the resolutions i make a motion to wave the reading of all five of the resolutions
first by TD second second second by Rich motion to adopt the resolution for Miller 71 West Saddle River Road i make a motion to accept the resolution for Miller ted first have a second second
second by Rich joyce roll call please mr neman yes mr sarakola yes mr walsh yes mr senzo yes miss Lepino yes mr varski yes mr centennio yes mr jack abstain
do we have to do two for Miller or is it It's actually one cuz that's just one okay our next Our next res resolution is Kabibbo 35 McKay Avenue could I have a motion to adopt the
resolution i make a motion to adopt the Kabibbo resolution first by Ted second second by Rich choice roll call please mr neman yes mr sarakola yes mr walsh yes mr senzo yes miss Lepino yes mr
varski yes mr centennio yes mr marzette abstain our next resolution is Rosaza 27 Camber Road do I have a motion to adopt the resolution i make a motion to to adopt a
resolution for Rosazo first second the motion second by Rich joyce roll call please mr neman yes mr sarakola yes mr walsh yes mr senzo yes miss Lepino yes mr barsski yes mr
centennio yes mr meerjack abstain our last resolution is Lynch 80more Avenue i have a motion to adopt the resolution i make a motion to adopt a resolution for Lynch ted first second rich second choice roll call please mr
neman yes mr sarakola yes mr walsh yes mr santo yes miss Lino yes mr vicarski yes mr centennio yes mr marzette abstain take that do you want me to call him back
uh first application is Pero by EMTT please can you come up please sure mr po come all the way up please sure sir unless you got something to give me you I'm afraid you have a problem when you give these things to
the patient yes sir you got to get to them within a certain period of time because they only publish on a couple of days i see that you did get to them by the 11th but I'm sure they told you they needed a little bit earlier than that what I did I did reach out to the to the person that the email address that's on
the phone i wanted to time it it would be um per the form and said that it would be two days before the record reach out to that person and I can do it two days before so we publish on Friday which would have been the 11th what ended up happening is I wanted
automated there was no way for me to get it moved so it you went on the 16th it it ended up going on the 16th but the thing is that it's just um just ended up being I I did follow the directions and you know I meant for it for I meant for it to be time no and I I
do understand here's what we're going to do i don't want you to get messed up on a technicality in other words if we let you come up here and present your application and if for some
doctor something decides it won't then it's automatically moved in because the notice was two days so rather than put you in that position I want to carry you next week i mean next month rather when your notice
will still be good and it'll be absolutely timeless okay i was afraid of it being too early that was that was that was the problem would it make sense would it make sense to put it on the
other thing okay so I'll see you next month thank you very much thank you may 28th give sir next we'll do Sergey yeah let's do are Brian and Jessica serge I can't
pronounce your last name sergey okay sir if you would raise your right hand do you swear testimony you're about to give should be the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth to God yes please state your name spell your last please brian Souge s U R U
J okay all right mr souge you have made an application by letter you have a resolution from April 22nd um no uh forgive me you have a
resolution from May of last year and so you've asked for an extension on this correct yes all right are you in a position to start work now finally oh we're still finish we we getting a pool installed and we're almost done with the pool and
we're going to start we're planning on starting after the summer to enjoy the pool a little bit before more construction before you tear we can go far exactly okay um All right under the Permanent Extension Act you are entitled
to a one-year extension as long as you make the application within a year in other words within the time that your resolution is good for you've done that you are good to go this is extended out one year but there's there generally isn't a
second extension we'll get it done thank you good luck to you have a good night our first application is going to be Wilson 38 Campbell Street mr shan give me a second you have Mr and Mrs wilson here yes
figured that out pretty quick huh it's about as good as it gets all right all right so are you both going to be testifying uh I think just me okay can any of you be testifying yes i'm sorry forgive me mr chairman you're
going to be testifying it's been too long mr sherman would you raise your right hand please do you see a testimony you're about to give should be the truth the whole truth and nothing about the truth so if you got it yes I do state your name spell your last it's Ed Sherman s H E R M 26 Smithfield Road
Wick New Jersey and could give us the benefit of your education and experience please i have a bachelor of architecture uh and I am a licensed architect in the state of New Jersey for 38 years in good standing and if memory serves you've
been here before i have okay i apologize i didn't try to be good it's not going to work uh okay so before we swear Mr wilson folks here's the deal mr sherman
comes before you as an expert an architect as such he has a special special privilege where everyone standing here has to testify only the facts mr sherman can give you his opinion relative to the facts that come
in you are not bound to accept his opinion you may accept it if everything you see tells you something different you can reject it all right that's the way we handle expert witnesses now Mr wilson
you said you were going to testify stand up please yes right hand you swear testimony of Dr gage will be the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth so if you got Yes state your name spell your last uh Jeffrey Wilson w I L S O N
please you can sit down where you are not terribly formal mr sherman would you like to uh lead the dance yeah on this project all right um this is uh 38 Campbell Street
in Waldwick it's in an R2 zone um and there's a a few different uh variances which we're going for here um it's an undersized lot presently uh in this uh zone you're required to have
7,500 square ft we're at just 7,800 um the hardship on this property uh will be the narrowness of the lot uh it's required to be 75 at the street level we're at 56.92
uh the other hardship which we will be talking about later is uh the actual topography of this site uh for the location of a shed to be placed um and that the project itself it's uh let's
consick uh what they'd like to do is an addition to the second floor over the existing footprint of the house um there is no real extensions of the livable space on the footprint of this house uh
everything will be inside the variance that we're looking to achieve is an existing sideyard on the right side of this property is 6.8 uh to the existing right hand corner of the front of the house uh we'll be
building straight above that so we will be having the 6.8 8 for that sidey yard also the total of both sides is required to be 25 ft or more uh the existing is 18.5 and by going straight up we're
continuing that 18.5 um that's the variances for the house uh the other variances that we're looking to do there they have an existing patio in the backyard which they'd like to put a covered structure
above uh it's an open uh covered that's going over this partial uh paver uh patio and for a rear yard setback for a structure in this zone you need 35 ft to the house is
44 uh to the structure of this roof line would be 29 uh they like to put a 16x20 covered area over this um just for a little protection on that patio from the sun so that's another variance we're
looking for is a new rear yard setback another uh variance they're looking to do is the placement of the shed there's an existing shed to the left side of the house that is uh 6x8 they're looking to get a new shed
there 8 by 12 and they'd like to put it in the same position uh for a sideyard for any accessory structure was required um we're looking at to do three feet on the side there it is a fenced in area
they have a 6ft high fence running along the side of the house they'd like to just replace that there and again for the hardship of this looking in the back of the house if you look at the site plan that I have they have a wall that's
there that's retaining a hill that's above the back of the yard so placement of the shed into the backyard in the flat area uh they have two daughters they like to play in the backyard there's not a lot of area to play in the backyard so we really can't put the shed
into the far corner because we'd be up a hill so that's the variance we're liking to remove an existing rotted uh aluminum shed and replace it with a new slightly larger on the same exact location um the
other variance for this house is um what would be considered uh no garage they bought the house there the previous owners had done interior work to the house the existing garage is only a 10
by 12 you can't fit a garage a car into that garage presently presently it's uh just used for storage uh they'd like to make that part of a livable space in their house again you can't get a car in
it there is a garage door on that which would would be removed uh they'd like to make that a smaller like family room because what they'd like to do on the first floor is extend their kitchen make a larger kitchen and extend the dining room into what is their existing family
room to the left side of the house so then they would still like another room for you know when the girls have friends over they have a place to go and uh this house is going to be more of an open concept design with the living room
kitchen and dining room so there's different variances for this um and again for the actual footprint of the house the addition on the second floor um we're just looking for existing uh
sideyard for that we'll start with questions from the board brian do you want to start how far is the patio from the back do they get ample room on the back of to from the back of the patio to the
back backyard is there well behind if you could see Brian from the back of the house all the way to the wall that double line that's a a retaining wall that's the the patio goes straight straight across where the new part of
like the left side of that structure would be right up to the wall so that's all pavers presently so it's an existing patio existing patio is there they just like to get it covered is that existing patio in
compliance is basically the question um for setbacks i don't know if there is any setbacks for patios i don't know that it's a paver so it's not
pavers i mean to to the to the pavers itself it's like 20 ft off the rear yard i don't know okay i know for above ground decks there are setbacks but I don't know about patios
this basically what you're doing is going up on top of existing footprint for both the house and the um covering the patio correct so basically an existing hardship yeah and again the coverage uh you're allowed
40% we are putting a front porch on this which does not require a variance and that's what just bumps up my coverage slightly from the 30.5 to 32.85 so we're well well below the 40%
okay so and then the only other thing is the shed you're making you said slightly bigger yeah it's um like I said right now they have a 6 by8 they would like an 8 by 12 that's all joe do you have any questions i have no
questions how do you um The only question is just to clarify so it's the like remodeling the garage right it's the shed and then it's obviously the elevation on an existing frame on existing and the set back to the new covered for the patio yeah correct
that's clear okay just making sure no other questions okay i myself have no questions so on the shed it how much closer is it getting to the property line or the fence it's staying approximately exactly where
it is to the property line um it gets a little bit closer to the house but it's it's staying right in line you know so that they can get around it okay and and the existing garage you're converting that to living space so correct that
family room that you're converting it to into is that the footprint of the garage now yes so later on if someone wanted to convert it back into a into a garage they'd have to go into the exit the utility room behind it also
oh okay the previous owner did that gotcha okay but it could be done oh it could be done someone wanted to if somebody Yes and are you doing anything with the driveway are you expanding the driveway no the
driveway is there now and that's they haven't parked a car they can't get one in the garage so that's what they've been living with so how many cars can you get in that driveway now two two um the the slab of the garage now is
that same elevation as the foyer and stuff or is it actually No it's it's a 4 in drop so it will be raised up no it will be raised up it'll be raised up so So you're just putting right on top of the concrete right that and that's what was done in that utility room behind
okay yeah no other questions that's it no somebody's already asked my question about the cards i'm done stan do you have any questions yeah save the best uh Mr sherman do you know if that
utility room that's taking up garage space was a permitted i do not know that cuz our building guy is not here right and like I said that's the way they purchased the house it was already there
how long have you lived there 15 years yeah i had to think we were married 16 we bought it a year into our marriage any children we have two girls 13 and almost 10 so they'll be having cards in
the near future depending on the wallet exactly we're We're both educators living in Bergen County so we'll we'll see when we get there and you say the driveway is big enough for two cars it is yes how many cars do
you have now two two two two trucks where do you park them now in the driveway in the driveway front front to back okay so our code requires two parking spaces one of which should be or shall be a garage and it had one and over the
years it lost its place um if the shed is bigger how does anyone get into the backyard in an emergency there's a fence going across the front gate in that fence on the right side the on the right side is on the right yes
yeah there is none on that side to the back and that's 6.8 it's a 4ft gate that's a double gate it's two double they both open yeah five foot all right thank you that's it
cliff any questions yeah refresh my memory if you can we have an outside limit on sheds don't we we have what don't we have an outside limit on the size of sheds what's sticking in my head is 10 by 10 but it may be 10 x 12 i'm just
curious to see i think that has to do I think that has to do with putting a footing under a shed over a certain size okay not a limitation on having the shed itself no some any accessory structure
have to comply i just as I say I'm not going to pretend anything i don't remember exactly what I thought it was 12 i'm sorry you thought 12 was the outside i think 12 okay but I don't remember what if it was 8 x 12 or 10 x 12 no but that's it sounds like we're
okay i just didn't want you to not have a variance if you needed it mhm that's about it everybody else asked my questions about parking and things like that only because that becomes a big
bugger here always always always but you were already you were already skunked on the garage so you were Is there anyone in the audience that has questions for this applicant none
do you have any final comments at about the application again uh the additions of the house um it's on the existing uh first floor you know just building straight above it uh the shed is basically in the same exact spot and
we're just trying to get a little bit of shade in that backyard or that that's all so there no it's completely open it's the um the cover is on it's on pillars
or whatever yes okay brian do you have any final comments i'd be in favor it's existing conditions and you're just building up on top of it i'd be in favor of that i'd be in favor also also in favor i'd
also be in favor i think it's an improvement but I have to admit I'm a little concerned about your parking situation in the future because if you girls are going to be having cars I'd be worried about your street
parking that would be my concern for you uh ditto um I'm I'm uh I think it's good application but yeah I mean that's I know you're kind of stuck um you don't have much of an option but that that could be a concern if for some reason you can't park on the street
i'm in favor of it you have any other comments all right um take a vote do I have a motion to approve this application i make a motion to approve this application ted first not the second
choice mr neman yes mr sarakova yes mr rarski yes mr walsh yes mr centennial yes mr senzo yes yes mr marij yes all right now you get the standard
speech the way this works is there will be a resolution written you have the approval now but that approval is a voice over there will be a resolution written and at our meeting next
month the la uh the 4th Wednesday in May it will presumably be approved at that point it will go to be published it is only upon publication that the clock starts running the clock
in question is 45 days there are 45 days for anyone anywhere to object to your application even though you sit here and say "Well why didn't you come in today?"
Doesn't matter that 45 days is required by law that being said it is so rare and you're not doing anything exotic those two things combined to say
if you want to go ahead and start doing your prep work pulling permits things like that there's nothing to stop you but you have to know you're doing it at risk of having some some have someone come in and object after the
fact all right if you have any question about that by all means ask i know it's arcane it's arcane and it's silly but it is no questions thank you in that case good luck with it thank you very much thank
you very much thank you everybody you'll enjoy construction because everyone can't wait thank you thank you everybody our next application is Curado 15 Campbell
Street colorado all right Mr sherman you are still under oath and even with the passage of CD you are still an expert witness mr curado I assume yes could you raise your right hand please do you swear testimony you're about to give
truly the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth so if you got it I do please state your name spell your last brian Curado c O R R A D O all right please have a seat mr sherman you want to give us the update on this thing
okay on this one again it's an existing same style house same street um you go up and down the street down the street the previous owners again bumped into the garage
um behind the kitchen what's I'm calling breakfast area they bumped into it um at the same time they did put a uh concrete slab to be flush with the kitchen breakfast area where they had a washer and dryer
um the existing garage is 10 by 16 where that step down is for the uh it's a 4-in step down into the garage is 13 ft from the garage door uh a car cannot be
parked in this garage either um even without that uh a 16 foot car is the doors coming down and hitting the back of a car um and if you did have a smaller size car the wheel well is going
to hit that uh lip and it's got door is going to come down and hit it so what they're looking to do again similar they're expanding their kitchen um into the garage by uh six feet uh they were
going to leave what's the garage to use as a shed area they're keeping theirs in place so they're going to have a 10x10 area uh for storage but expand that kitchen like I said into the garage so
that they can get a larger kitchen in this house and that's all we're doing that's it and then um I know Joe had brought up the um coverage which is totally different
from what I'm doing right now i can explain that okay um I've done other projects for the Curados and we've been here before for an addition to the right side um and behind their house they had
a concrete patio um they went before Joe to get a uh an above ground pool but it's slightly submerged like half and half with and they put a wood deck around it um which was approved by Joe
uh later they went and hired a contractor who not knowing Mr crotto did not know about the coverage the contractor ripped up the existing concrete patio and added slightly more
uh pavers uh they're pavers that are actually cemented together so they have a brand new patio out there that brings their coverage above the 40% on the site um and Joe just wanted that to be
addressed at this meeting um So I'm just telling they had no clue that they had to do that and the contractor I guess told did not inform them about anything about the coverage at that time to put in a new larger
patio than what they had do we have a coverage calculation i do i have 47.64% okay so that's that's not dimminimous no no but like I said he was not aware no I get it
and the way I look at this is they put in um what I consider a temporary pool with a structure around it um it's approximately 1,000 square ft the wood deck with the pool if they were ever to
leave and move someday that could be removed and the coverage would come down to 35.12% so the pool and the wood deck which was approved by Joe prior to them putting in patio uh could be removed the
patio can stay and the pool and the deck if they were ever to sell could be removed and we bring it down to 35% we'll take questions from the board brian do you want to start just expanding into the garage i mean for me
it's just expanding into the garage and getting permission for permission for existing coverage no other no questions no questions for me either i have no questions bill no questions rich um I am
I mistaken i thought papa are you know impervious or impervious I should say he said they were cemented together cemented together cemented together and Okay well it doesn't really have it i mean they they also include wood decks which have the gaps also so they include wood decks
also so there isn't anything to this this meeting we're going to talk about the garage right well we're also we take what we find okay so as a practical matter we go back and we pick up the U patio at the same time because that's
stupid not to okay by the way did you all notice the after talking to Joe you noticed the garage the um patio as well right whom i didn't I haven't seen the notice on this oh no
no on the notice yes yeah okay no we did coverage right and you all have it on the bus to save face anyway oh that's what Okay good all right yeah we're addressing B we're addressing B yeah exactly and actually you've got another
continuing because you've got a 56 foot wide lot where 75 is required correct and so you come up over over on the area because you're deeper which is nice right
um I'm just because I'm going to pick up everything that's there if we're going to do it you know let's clean it up mhm so we got stories we got feet we got improved lot okay you've got the sideyard issues that
you raised with us so we've got we're deficient in we're 100% deficient in sideyards all three all three measurements don't work right well and like I said we're not really doing function of the width but
we we were here previously for an addition to the right side which addressed that those absolutely that was addressed absolutely i'm just looking at the whole picture really quickly ted do you have any questions no
questions stan none do you have any other questions no thank you is there anyone in the audience has questions for this applicant none ed do you have any final comments no again um you know they can't get a car
in this garage uh similar to the last people that I had here um and they're just looking to expand that kitchen and again it's an oversight for the coverage
um which was you know with the homeowner and the contractor brian do you have any final comments i'd be in favor of continuing existing conditions joe I'd also be in favor i'd be in favor as well i'd also be in favor
just curious how long were the papavers there um with the pool well it was separate um when did you do the papers after the pool the pool was April after April May i never last year
yeah and then I got I got an updated survey make sure Joel said "Make sure you get an updated survey and address it you know." And I I didn't I was kind of misled with the uh contractor i I asked him "Was any issues with coverage or anything like that?" He
said "No nothing at all." And so I'm like "Okay let's let's do it." My My existing patio was all broken up already i think the concrete was already broken from I I guess the original um I'm always I want to do everything by the rule that's how I am i
have two kids in the house as well and just try to make the yard a little better that's what that was my goal i'm okay with the application but I do just have a question um so when you or the contractor submitted
the plan to Joe did it look like this or did it not look like this you know what I mean it didn't have the pavers it didn't have the pavers he had the pool and the pool deck and okay they just you know and it had like I said there was an existing
concrete patio there which was you know banged up a lot it was falling apart he just he did it on his their own to just get a paper one and was just slightly larger so okay
okay no questions stan do you have any final comments yeah well thanks for coming appreciate it thank you i appreciate your time thank you Stan uh your driveway seems looks like it's
narrower than the last case are you familiar with that under oh yes I am yeah we're very similarly driving well your driveway holds two cars as well yes I will have a problem in the future too
my two kids i thought that right away i know thank you i know it's a challenge i like the idea of the shed in the garage though that's good do I have a motion to approve the application i make a motion to approve
this application ted first i'll second it nadia second joyce yes mr neman yes mr sarakola yes mr okarsski yes mr wall yes mr centennio yes mr santo yes miss Lepino
yes mr mar yes mr curado you were here when I went through the um whole problem with not with um publication everything with the other gentlemen did you understand was there anything in there that you wanted to ask
about the 45 days oh no i understood the 45 days thank you so applies to you too that's just the deal all right thank you thank you very much thank you thanks
everyone we'll be in touch our next application is Spring 28 Kennedy Drive excuse me I have to recuse myself okay for the record I have worked with the screens on
a couple of occasions haven't in a long time it doesn't affect my judgment there's no issue but it should be on the record how are you guys all right you both testifying
or raise your right hand do you swear the testimony you're about to give should be the truth the whole truth about the truth nothing but the truth sophie got Yes sir state your name spell your last daniel Spring s P R E N all right mr please sit down
all right what are we doing Ed okay um this is located at 24 Kennedy Drive 28 28 28 I'm sorry and it's R1 single family um there's a lot of existing
nonconformities uh for this zone it's required to be 15,000 square ft the existing property is 9,600 the width is required to be 100 ft uh this is only 60 so we have we're
looking at a narrowness of this site um the front yard of the existing structure to the um face of the house is 29.2 where 50 is required side yards uh the right side uh
required to be 10 ft the existing is at six the total of both sides is required to be 35 the existing is 23.8 um what we're proposing to do with this there's an existing sun room off
the back of the house it's a ranch style home uh what they propose to do is remove the sun room off the back and add an addition towards the back of the house uh just squared off on the right and left side of the house to the front
of the house uh existing there's a uh front entrance way that has a wood ramp for their daughter who is handicapped uh what we'd like to do is pull this in closer to the house make it look like a front porch with the ramp built into the
front porch coming down to the driveway um what we will be doing with this structure uh the first floor will be going towards the back like I indicated with a small deck off the back
um and just try to have an open floor plan on the first floor uh second floor will be totally new uh with the addition of four bedrooms two baths and bringing a laundry area upstairs
uh they're also going to be having a lift in the house for their child to go to the second floor the first floor and the basement level um and again it's mostly all
existing nonconformities that we're looking for with the addition of the second floor um the one thing that does go over right now for lot coverage uh you're required to be 40 this
property is presently 45.64 and we are going to be adding to that uh to make that 51.97% coverage again it's an undersized lot which brings that coverage up on
this site um that's basically it right now the uh front porch ramp would be like I said to the house it's 29.2 it's going to be 6 ft coming to the front so
23.2 will be the new front yard setback to the covered porch and we were deficient to start with in in front yards correct what's that we were deficient to start with in front yard correct yes at 292 yeah 29.2
when it's required to be 50 right and then this whole neighborhood there is no houses that have 50 foot front setbacks uh there probably was designed to be 25 foot setbacks for the houses in this
neighborhood um and they're all basically uh the same in this neighborhood um your stunning silence is very reassuring i'm sorry your stunning silence is very reassuring
i'm just a slow reader uh okay so by squaring off we're not changing anything on the sideyards except that we're exacerbating it on as we go further back with it correct so it's a technical exacerbation rather
than any functional one correct okay start with taking questions from the board brian do you want to start essentially existing structure except you're going to move the ramp in closer to the house and you're going to cover it yes sir so you're actually picking up
a little space in the front in the front yard yeah and then in the back uh you're just taking out a sun room and replacing that with a thing so it's it's a structure that's already there correct so essentially it's an existing structure that you're actually correct and just redoing pulling the ramp in and
then putting a second floor onto an existing but everything else it's undersized lot and clearly not enough room on the sides and stuff correct correct that's all my only question is if you're moving the ramp closer to the house how are you
picking up less front yard setback are you extending the porch on the street side of the ramp the well the it's going to be a six foot like front porch and then of which about three feet is a ramp no no no the the
ramp is going to be the full six feet going down to the left side right to the driveway i think what you mean Mr mayor Jack is the the the front of the ramp will actually go back a few feet it's it's inside the front porch because Yeah
right now the ramp is about uh 3 ft off of the front of the house does he make it a wide ramp no no uh well it will be it's the porch it the It will come up from the driveway as a ramp flatten out and like half of it is a
porch the other half will be a ramp but it's going to be disguised from the front looking like a front porch i see it now you're not going to see that a three-foot ramp and a three-foot porch no the last foot will be a ramp and the right half will be porch correct correct
right yep how is it getting the new porch is wider than the old ramp yes i thought that since it's flushing the house you still pick up a little bit yeah their their existing ramp comes out of the house
goes towards the street and then makes a right so it projects a lot more than six feet uh in front of the house yeah it's good 10 ft probably a good 4T between the house and the ramp
i remember when we built it yes yes indeed is it just um you two and your daughter or is there anyone else uh five total three three kids my daughter and two boys that's all i have no questions
i have no questions the hardship variance I think it's it's warranted and uh I think it's a good application yeah I think it's a great solution to the for the front looks great looks really good it's going to look much better more functional um
curious though no ramp in the back you go step we're going to have a chair lift off the deck okay which we'll we'll have that so they could go down to the patio that's it thanks
Mr sherman do you know if there was need for a variance for the existing 45.64% 64% existing coverage i do not know that
because that's over our allowance already which is the existing there was nothing really added no that's that's the coverage how we bought the house yeah when we purchased house in 2000 we
haven't done a thing is the um is the ramp in that calculation or not shouldn't be right the Is that 46 um I believe I I put it in yes you put it in okay so that would make sense then
that's what wasn't there when it was originally um built and therefore it was 40 or something around that take off the ramp and it drops it right down why
would the ramp be considered coverage a setback or coverage okay since stairs uh would have been there instead you know I just worked here
rainbow i'm just wondering if you include that part of the addition that is a ramp in coverage and then if so you need to vary just the
same i mean I I always treat them as a deck structure whenever I do coverage just for myself but I I don't think there's anything written in our book on you know ramps eddie are you talking about the the temporary ramp
that exists now yeah okay that's what I just The porch is permanent oh the porch is permanent the porch is covered yes and we would always measure off that yes yes yep mhm would you add in the measurement of the ramp ending
thank you i just needed clarification no it's as straightforward as these things can be it's a big renovation but it's still there's very little that's changing
zoning you know most of it is already there just squaring off the house back yeah that's the only structural change it's a practical matter you gain gain the coverage in large part because
you're taking the rear porch rear sunroom and you are expanding it full width and that's where you pick up that extra that extra um square footage so it makes perfect sense and because of that
because you're only going to that wall you're not making that encroachment further it's going back further but it's not actually getting closest right so it it makes it a lot simpler does anyone in the audience have any
questions for this applicant none go to the board for final comments brian I'd be in favor of clearly a large clearly an undecided lot um and mostly it's basically going on existing i'm in favor of the application i'd be
in favor as well the design for I'd also be in favor i'm in favor of it i'm in favor as well i have a motion to approve this application i'll make a motion we approve the application not first brian
second choice mr neman yes mr sarakola yes mr okardi yes mr wal yes mr centennial yes mr szo abain oh I forgot mr marjack yes Mr mitchell
actually for the record not abstain recuse just so we keep it straight it's the bookkeeping it's always the bookkeeping okay you heard the deal with the 45 days yes sir
sorry it's the way it is but again it's rare somebody saying something you know your neighbors right well other than that one I mean that you got to worry about all righty
take care guys thank you all very much appreciate your time see you awesome ted all's forgiven you can come home now our next applicant is Van Dyke 31 Grove Street
did you take your head off yeah I'm going to i was just waiting to be told to raise my right hand sorry okay mr van Dyke could you raise your right hand please state your name swear testimony about give truth
the whole truth and nothing's the truth so if you got it I do state your name spell your last cory Van Dyke van N please have a seat all righty so Mr sherman what's going on all right on this one uh what they'd
like to do there's an existing garage that's falling apart that has to be uh demolished and in order to build a new one uh was informed that he'd have to come for a variance so in doing so we'd like to make it larger try and make it a
twocar garage um and with that we're also looking at um a slight height uh um a little bit more for variance on that also which I'll explain this is an R2 zone
uh required uh area is 7500 this lot is 6,250 so we have an existing undersized lot the width required is 75 this is existing is 50 so the hardship is the narrowness of this site um again the
existing garage was set to the far back of the uh property with a driveway from front of Grow Street all the way to the back uh the existing setbacks of that garage were 4.0 to the rear 4.0 to the
side the required uh sideyard setbacks for an accessory structure is 10 ft uh the proposed new would be 4.5 we're just bringing it in a little bit from the rear and the side uh the existing house
to the left has a shed uh right on the property line there the house behind them has a shed right where this garage is so there's no real sight issues from other uh properties for uh seeing what's
going to be there everything is in that corner uh garage and uh sheds and again we're just looking to make this a little bit bigger uh with that the uh an accessory structure can only be 15
ft high we're looking to make this 19 just to get add its uh storage above he needs some storage um and again this structure will not have enough of a story above where it's actual livable space not going to have a stair going up
there and you can't make it a room or anything um to the actual ceiling joist it's only 6'6 um and at the sides it's 3'6 which you know it's going to be a knee wall on the outside just so that they can get some storage up above um
and with Mr van Dyke that him and his wife they would like to get two cars in there um he also has a motorcycle some other things he'd like to get in there so he just needs a larger garage so by doing so we're putting that basically in the same spot but again it's a larger
garage and in doing so we're just going to add a little bit more pavement in front of it so you could get the other car into the garage um and that's what would bring our uh the coverage up on this the uh lot uh in
this area is 40% should be the coverage existing is 46.64 uh we're going to be going up to 52.94 with the larger garage and that added uh paving area for that and again
it was regardless of what he built here he had to go for a variance um if you went to 10 ft off the back or in the side it's you know pushing this garage really into the center of his backyard so it's the narrowness of the
site of the existing where it should be 75 and we're only at 50 so we're trying to keep it in that back corner where all the other structures are on the neighboring um and try and keep it back there again we couldn't put it as an
attached garage because then we would have no sideyard to the left of the house take questions from the board brian do you want to start no issues no issues just this a corner house was it what
corner house no it's not okay no central okay yeah no it's further down okay perfect no question the access to the attic is pull downstairs yes will be a pull down stair yep that's the only question I have
okay so your longer your um longer dimension is depth excuse me i'm looking at what's drawn here so the longer the longer dimension is depth not width correct okay so that's your 27 correct
and and 19 across the front correct all right trying to see if this helps me understand what 19 ft tall looks like it's hard to tell from the elevation how
tall was the existing garage the existing I have it on there where I'm sorry did you hear uh it's 13 ft the existing it's It was There was nothing it's I see
it's It's a nothing garage it's It's a very old falling down there's nothing stored there is no attic right i don't think you could have one i don't think you could yeah
i need was the garage that has become derelct was that being used as a garage or It's never Well it's a garage for storage um other than that the name only yeah there's never been a car park inside of it
before is there a driveway there is it's a long shovel a lot of shoveling that probably explains the 46 yeah it's all the way from the front to the back you could rent it out to the two pets people to their daughters
i don't have any other questions thank you and what borders that your your property there on the rear and the side is is there any house that's just adjacent or is it further away to which on the
there's houses on both sides of the house as well right but are they close in proximity or are they in here i would think most of the properties in this part of G Street are probably 50 ft maybe a 75 thrown in
but they're all they're close mr vanz how long have you lived there uh my parents bought it in 96 i grew up there uh my father passed away in 23 so then I assumed the mortgage but I I didn't live there between 2020 and 2023
moved out but when you used that garage um yeah I still have things in the garage right now uh but the door only closes uh as low as like a foot off of the ground and all the glass on the door is shattered you could probably punch a hole if you wanted to through the door
it's not really a door there's a hole in the side of the garage it's a I think like a a tin popup shed garage from like Sears from like the 60s or 70s very old i'll do it anyway
mr sherman you want to make it wider without getting any closer to any of the neighbors and because it's wider you will have the ability to put up a nice style roof yes with storage under a
little bit of storage up above yes will the style match the house um you know I don't know the name styles i don't know the style of your The siding will be the same color the side will match that it will match that way
yes that's what roof line goes it's just a pitch roof yeah yes okay excuse me i have a question yes uh from the drawing I guess on the site plan a a
darker area leading to the front of the garage from the house yes is that a new paved area yes it is uh do you plan on running electric out there i do good idea you Well it's got to be at least a foot deep i was an electrician okay but
whatever yeah i'm done we'll take questions from the audience but there's no one here george it's on the record that there's no one here do you have any final uh comments nothing right
now final comments from the board i be in favor it's clearly an undersized lot um it's beneficial to the town to improve you know dilapidated structure or replace it with a new structure it would be silly to put the
garage in the middle of the yard so put put it where the existing one is makes a lot of sense and even if you want to maintain the sideyard set back to 10 ft you just increase the mechan so it's just makes sense to put it where the old one is i'm also in
favor i'd be in favor as well i think it'll look really nice and have a really nice long garage so there shouldn't be any concerns with that well driveway driveway sorry i'd also be in favor i'd be in favor
i'm in favor as well and wish I had a garage like that me too i'm good i want a driveway like that this is a good application nice wants a garage right here i was thinking that yeah i make a motion we approve the
application second brian first ted second mr nan yes mr sarakola yes mr yes mr walsh yes mr centennio yes
mr senzo yes mr yes mr mar yes all righty mr van Dyke you are approved same deal it's going to have to get published you've heard it a couple of times before so if you have any questions about
that again doesn't sound like the kind of situation where you're going to have problems but nobody here would predict mhm all right thank you thank you you're welcome thank you very much 32 i can't believe you went to my son
all right everyone good night good to see you good night finish digesting yet good job did you see the time lapse i got to do all these final drawings now did you see Did you see the time lapse no oh it was excellent oh yeah you I
could text it to you or emailed to you it was very very cool from setup to the whole meal to break down oh I didn't see that yet check that out check it out he's busy doing this yeah he's doing his job
under old business did has everyone done their financial disclosure yes everyone did it i always get confused every year and every year I knew the same thing and I just get confused more confused every year but it was Yeah i I actually had to call Kelly
or You called Kelly yeah no I talked to the other Melissa yeah because I didn't know about like a password or pin number and I I didn't need it but I didn't know that it's a new website it seems like it just let it just popped up from last last night but it was good I just
clicked through immediately submit submit I don't know new business I don't think we have anything to talk about motion to adjourn I make a motion we adjourn I second
exactly let's just do I all in favor I I opposed not some false witness against me i'm sorry would you bear some false witness absolutely any witness I do agree is going to be false