30 of May the 28th. I'm going to start the zoning board of appeals with the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under
God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. In accordance with mass general law chapter 38 section 20F this this uh meeting is being recorded. The first uh first item tonight is
petition from Brendan Lord applicant Quinton D. Lord and Brendan Lord owners for a variance from the frontage requirements as the subject property elects frontage on a street or way for purposes of maintaining the property as agricultural use as well as constructing a single
family dwelling as mandated by zoning bylaw article 7 section 7.1 sub property is located at 28 coahons lane westport mass and is shown on assessor's map 2 lot 13 u voting on this would be Jerry
Coutino myself, Raja Manard, Constinsky, Ray Elias, and Cynthia Kazekowitz. Um, is is anybody is anybody from the petitioner actually here? Okay. I mean, we did receive
a a uh a letter from um Stephen Gio. Gio, and I'll read that. On behalf of the petitioner Brendan Lord, I hereby respectfully request a continuence. Thank you. In the public hearing
currently scheduled for Wednesday, uh, May 28, 2025, I have a recent schedule change that will have you out of the country next week, and I will be unavailable to represent the petitioner at this hearing. If possible, you would like to reschedule a hearing at your next available date after June 9th. And
first, um, let me just say, uh, what prompted this was a letter from Ralph Souza, the, um, uh, zoning officer. And I'll read the letter. After review of assessor's records, lot 13 of assessor's map 2. It has been determined that the
lot in question contains 14.25 25 acres of land but lacks frontage on a street or way as required by Westport zoning uh bylaws article 7.1 minimum residential uh lot area and frontage. Therefore, the lawn in question is considered
unbuildable. You may appeal this determination as allowed by Mass General at chapter 48. So, that's what's uh brought us here. Um, generally what the way the way this process works is I would have the petitioner provide whatever uh information he thinks is
pertinent. The board would then um ask questions and then I would open it up to the uh to the public. And we were going to have our lawyer here because um this deals into things like grandfathering
issues and things like that that um uh that we really need our our lawyers u intuition on. Um so we do have a request for continuence. What I um and and again uh we are going to have
to do that because uh uh even though I mean like I said a lawyer was scheduled to be here but since we had the request for a continuence we weren't going to pay him to come here just to have a continuence. So um that being said and and your name and
address please Brendan Lord 343 Old Bedford Road. Okay. So, what I need from you then is um uh do we have the the the the form, Maria? You gave the form. Yes. I need to to fill out the form and formally ask for continuance and then we
will set a a date for the continuence. And I'm sorry for the public coming here to to do this, but this does happen fairly regularly that you know we schedule these things like um three or four weeks in advance and sometimes the lawyer or whatever something happens and
they just they can't make it. uh you know so uh we're generally fairly lenient about uh about at least the first continuence under those kinds of conditions. Uh you know sometimes it's just you just and you know just can't
manage it. So uh you can fill out the form and then you can ask you know officially ask us for a continuence. Okay. Is there anything you wanted to say? Yeah. Um, at this time I would like to request a site visit from the board.
That we can do. Okay. I don't want to go into any details though of the petition because without our lawyer here, I don't want him having to catch up on on what's going I know we we have had some um uh emails and some
letters from uh uh from Abutters. And again, I'll hold those until we actually have everybody here present, including a petitioner's your petitioner's attorney. Is that the person here? Is that your attorney or is that uh just your
representative? Um currently? Yes. Uh just a representative. Okay, that's fine. All right. I would like to uh request a continuence. Uh um what's the what's the date that we
have? July 9th. Oh, John. July 9th. July 9th 25. Yeah. Okay. I Brendan Lord request that the hearing on my petition to be continued until July 9th, 2025. I understand that deadline for making a decision will be extended accordingly.
Okay, we have a request. Um, do you want to make a motion? I'll make a motion to uh grant the request. Grant the request. Yeah. Do I have a second? Any discussion? No. All in favor say I. I.
All oppose? No. That's unanimous. So, we will continue this here July 9th at at 6:30 and hopefully your representative will be here and and we will have our lawyer here as well. And if any of the uh like I said, we do have correspondence from Abutters and if anybody else and if any other Abutter
wants to provide any information, they can provide it to to Maria and we will uh read it at the at the continuation. Very well. Thank you. That's it. How about site? Oh, site. Yes, we can talk about when we can do a site visit.
Um, I'm pretty flexible. Um, I can work around the board. Okay. Is is Saturdays usually the best? I What was the question? Saturday when Yeah, we do Saturday. Well, we should consider boards saying that we want to do this.
Yes, that's the first. I I would also like to see on on this property um after reading the butter's uh uh information there was stuff in there that didn't
show up in the application. Um and I think it would warrant a site visit. Uh but I can't ask the questions now. Right. Um, and I think I really think that we need to do the site visit after
we do the July 9th thing because u it would be nice for expediency to do it ahead of time. Mhm. But I have a feeling that too much would come out at the site visit uh that u should actually in other
words we should hear the the petition right before we go on a site visit. Yes. Right. Yes. Okay. I understand what you're saying. Yeah. Other otherwise we're gathering information that's that's not public knowledge. And usually on a site visit we do not discuss
u and what what's uh you know situation uh and I think if we did it coal like just based on what we see here uh we would uh uh we would be at a disadvantage and I think everybody would
be at a disadvantage. Okay. Okay. Why don't uh why don't we hold off then until the uh the next hearing and then and then at the next hearing after we hear all the information from from the petitioner from the abusers from our lawyer then we can decide if we still
need a site visit right it may very well be we may not we may not even need it. Okay. So we'll we'll we'll we'll we'll do that. Okay. Thank you. Thanks. Okay. Is there any other business? We
don't have any meeting minutes to go over. No, not yet. Um, we already talked about the, uh, the town meeting. Is there any other business? Uh just to bring you up to date, we you know what the plan is for the Pine Ridge
is that uh as you remember from the last hearing, the petitioner is going to provide an updated uh waiver list hopefully in the next couple of days. He's supposed to do this this week sometime supposed to be by today uh Thursday or Thursday or so anyway this
week. at which place to uh the plan is then to immediately get that to our attorney George who I'm relying on him to essentially tell us which ones are just purely administrative paperwork so that we can prune it down to a small subset and then
I will set up a meeting with the uh with conservation and with health and and fire whoever else and with you as our representative as me as the representative you voted me in and that's but anyway um those who hopefully
the uh the week of the 9th is what we're looking at. Hopefully if if in fact we get the the waiver list from the petitioner and I get the uh George's um take on uh on the list so that like I
said we can prove the whole I mean the whole reason for this is so that um it's not that we are going to make a decision. It's we can so that we can sort of understand what each of the waivers are so that we can come back to the board at our next hearing and make
recommendations for each of the of the waivers. Uh and then the board can decide uh what to do with the each of the waivers. But at least then it's not we're not chasing our tail on 30 waivers. It'll take you know it'll take
days. So, you know, you know, hopefully and and hopefully we get it down to a small subset that are say more controversial than, you know, hopefully some of them are going to be administrative and we can just not ignore, but I mean, you know, those are pretty straightforward. I believe
there'll be another subset that we can pretty much agree to or agree not to agree to, right? And then there'll be hopefully a small subset that we have to discuss and, you know, come to a a board. I mean, that's that's certainly
the goal. So, anyway, that's um that's that's about it. Nothing else going on. We have another When's it when's our next uh our next hearing? 25th. That's for the That's for the Pine Ridge, right? Yes. And that's at 7. Yes. Oh,
that's at seven, right? Because the attorney couldn't make it until seven. Yes. Right. Okay. And no one any other business? No. Cynthia, I'll make a motion to adjourn the the the meeting, the hearing or
whatever it is called. Second. All in favor? I I'll no Val want to cut us off. And I I do want