Recording in progress. Good evening. Welcome to the regularly scheduled meeting of the Yamazonei Board of Appeals. Today's date is July 9th, 2026. My name is Sean Iiggo. I'm chairman of this board. We will now convene the meeting of this uh board of appeals.
It's a hybrid meeting and is being recorded. We're going to begin by taking a roll call to establish a quorum. >> Anthony >> here. >> Okay. Barbara >> here. >> Tim >> here. >> Dick >> here.
>> And I'm here as well. Okay. With a quorum present, I will call the meeting to order. We have on our agenda this evening petition 5241 Alden B. Charles IVth of 354 Forest Road South Yarmouth. The
property is in an R40 zoning district, the APD. In zone two, the applicant seeks a special permit per section 401.1.2 to park a boat to the front of the building line of the lot. The applicant requests a waiver from the requirement
for a certified site/plot plan less than two years old. Good evening, sir. >> Good evening. How are you? Good. Thanks. Good. Saw your petition here. Um, tell us a little bit about what you want to do. I think it's pretty self-explanatory. You want to park your
boat in front of your front lot >> corner line. >> I have a septic system in the front yard. Trees bordering both sides. Um, >> low utility lines on one side
would not be able to access the rear. Um, and both sides if I were to clear out I had to clear out a lot of trees and I would potentially be in my neighbor's property if I did so. >> Okay. Okay. Yeah. I went over there. I took a look at it. I see you're down a
little bit of ha hollow. You're off Forest Road quite a bit. Um, how u what's the length of your boat? >> It's uh 24 feet. Um, so with the trailer about another two feet maybe. >> Okay. All right. Is your
I'll just go over the requirements. Is your trailer registered? >> Yes, sir. >> Is it registered to you? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> All right. You're the current owner of the property, >> correct? >> And so there's no way that you could park this behind the front corner of the
house? >> No. Nope. Uh if I if I could get it to the side of the garage, like I said, I'd have to clear out all those uh border trees and I think I would be in my neighbor's yard. >> Okay. Okay.
All right. Well, we're going to go to the board. This is the first one of these petitions that we've heard. So, in maritime terms, this is the maiden voyage. >> So, we're going to see if we any of the board members have any questions.
Anthony, do you have any questions for the petitioner? >> Um, yeah. Just one just to see it. If you if you're looking at the property uh where the driveway is to the right of that, would it not fit a little bit to the right there? I understand it's
there's still relief, but you want to park it right where it is now in front of the driveway or in the driveway most of the time or to the right there. >> Correct. Uh it would be right into the uh in front of the garage. If I was to I measured to the side of the garage. Um so the length the the width of the boat
with the trailer is about 9 ft. Right now there's about 10 feet of clearance on that side. Um if you've ever backed a boat trailer, you know, you need more than >> Yeah. >> a foot of clearance. Um >> and like I said, I if I cleared out all
of those trees, um I would be definitely on the neighbor's property. And then it the rear um you know slopes down into a gully as well. So it's just not feasible to to do it. >> Okay.
>> Yeah. Uh what's the name of the boat? >> The name of the boat? >> Yeah. >> Um I haven't officially named it, but my daughter's name is Olivia. We call her Libby, so it's called the Livy Lou for now. >> All right. >> Not officially, but that's what we've been calling it.
>> It's not It's not really a relevant question. I'm just curious. >> It kind of is cuz that's a good question. >> I don't have anything further. Okay. >> I see what happen. >> Barbara, do you have any questions for petitioner? >> No, just a suggestion. You better name
it name the boat. >> Oh, my daughter's been on me for it. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Get on that. >> No, I don't have any questions. >> Okay, Tim. Um, you going to pack it there year round? Um,
most likely, uh, I will shrink wrap it and have it there. Yeah. Yeah. Um, both of my neighbors are great. We don't mind. I've never had any complaints or issues with it. >> Um, all right. I have no further questions. >> Okay. >> Dick, do you have any questions?
>> Nope. >> Okay. Take a hang. >> Well, the only questions I really had were those that I asked in the beginning. Um, I did look at the property over there. Do we have anybody on uh Zoom with their hands raised?
>> Uh, no, Mr. Chairman. >> Okay. I don't see anybody in the audience unless Mark wishes to speak in favor or against his petition. And he No, see he's Okay. Um, I mean, it's a nice big lot you have
over there. You're sitting down kind of by yourself. know to look at one of these petitions uh in the first instance. I think this one right here is I mean in my opinion anyways is pretty easy. I think you meet the
criteria. I think we may run into some situations in the future where things might get a little tighter and we might have to try to work it, you know, work it out a little differently, but um it's mainly a question of whether the
neighbors are are for or against him. >> Yeah. Yeah. And depending on, you know, how close you are to your lot line and uh you know, maybe how close the boat would be to the street, things like that. But I I don't think we have any of
that here tonight. So >> there's a large uh bike path and I I don't interfere with that at all. >> I think most of us are all familiar with you. Yeah, we we get on that roadway. Yeah. >> Um is there anything else you'd like to add? >> I don't think so. Um okay. Just surprise
on the first one because I know there's going to be a lot of people. >> Yeah, we think we'll probably see a few. So um I think yours Well, I think yours is probably pretty easy one. Um,
so does anybody uh wish to have any discussion or make a motion? >> Well, I did have one question. >> Okay. >> Following on what Dick said, was there any comment or from neighbors uh about it? >> We didn't receive any correspondence and there's no one online.
>> Okay. >> He mentioned his neighbors are okay. >> They're great and they I think both of them rent out houses during the summer. So, you always have people coming home. But the main homeowners I've spoken with, um I said they're great. No issues. So,
>> well, I would u make a motion to approve the petition uh for a special permit uh with the conditions set forth in the bylaw. >> Okay. And we'll we'll go uh so in this particular one. Okay. Right.
I guess we would look at uh numbers one through five. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, Dolores will go as a condition that this is right in the bylaw. This number one, I don't know if we have it listed as one through five in the bylaw.
Okay. So, we can just list five conditions and that is, you know, the special premise granted exclusively to him. >> That's restricted to one boat, maximum length of 28 ft. It's got to be on a lawfully registered trailer
uh to the current property owner or current resident of the property. So if somebody was renting there, they could conceivably get one as well. Uh boat shall be located on a regist rail and shall be parked in the driveway
without creating a traffic or fire safety issue. I don't think we have that here. again somewhere in the future. We don't know. It's going to be on a case-byase basis, but here this particular lot, I don't think we have any issues with that. And the special
permit shall expire upon the transfer of the property. So, if you go and get a new boat, I don't think you have to come back and see us >> as long as it's under >> as long as it's under 28 ft. >> If it went over 28 ft, you'd have to
come back and get a variance. >> Okay? Try to keep a 28 if you can. >> Oh, my wallet will not >> besides those boats over 28 are a little tough to trailer anyway. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. Um, so those those are your conditions, Tim.
>> Yeah. Okay. Uh, >> I'll I'll second. >> Okay, Anthony second. Um, any further discussion? I think clearly the man meets the criteria of the bylaw. We'd all agree with that. >> Yep. >> Okay. All right. So, um, if there's
nothing else, we're going to move the question. Anthony, how do you vote? >> I, >> Barbara, >> I. >> Tim, >> I. >> Dick >> I. >> And I'm an I as well. So, that passes. Five in favor. None opposed. Uh, now once the decision
>> make it subject to the uh conditions we talked about. >> Yep. >> That those are in there. Yeah. Yeah. Number one through five here. We're putting those conditions in uh in that and we'll probably put all those conditions in every single special permit. This will be a template.
>> Yeah. >> So, um once the decision is written and filed with the town clerk, 20 days must elapse. That's a technical appeal period. After that, Dolores will contact you. You can come get your special permit. You need to take it over to the
registry of deeds and record it and just bring a copy back for our file. Okay. Any questions? >> No, sir. >> All right. Good luck. >> Thank you. Thank you for your time. >> No problem. Thank you. >> Have fun out there and all right. >> We'll come by. Make sure you named that
boat the right way. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Thanks. >> All right. Do we have any other business? >> Uh the meeting minutes from June 25th, Mr. Chairman, >> June 25th. Do we have a motion to approve the minutes of June 25th?
So moved. >> So moved >> and seconded. >> Okay. It uh Anthony made the motion seconded by Tim. Any uh discussion on the minutes hearing? None. >> Anthony >> I. >> Barbara
>> I. >> Tim >> I. >> Dick >> I. >> And I'm an I as well. That passes five in favor and none opposed. Any other business tools? >> No. Mr. Chairman, >> we have a motion to adjurnn. >> Uh so moved. >> Seconded. >> Second. Paulo's in favor.