The Claremont Zoning Board of Adjustment met on April 6, 2026, to continue a public hearing on an application by the Randy Lewis Trust for a variance to place a manufactured home at 95 Old Church Road (Parcel 93-16). The board heard public comments, deliberated on the variance criteria, and ultimately voted to deny the application, citing insufficient demonstration of unnecessary hardship and special conditions unique to the property.
Okay, we'll call a meeting to order. Um can I have a roll call, please? Bridget Collins. Here. I heard speech. Yeah. Aaron Lafontaine. Here. John Deep. Here. So I'm gonna point Aaron to sit in from Mike tonight and John for Wayne, being neither one of them could uh continue with this. Under minutes from March 2nd meeting, do I have a motion to accept? Make a motion to accept this presented. Second have a motion, a second, all in favor. Being none, old business continuation, Randy Lewis Trust 93 Old Church Road application requesting a variance to allow for a placement of a manufactured home on a lot in the district that is not permitted at 95 Old Church Road. This is a continued meeting or continued application rather for March 2nd. Um start before we open public, Alex. Do you have anything new you want to add? Um nothing you had. Wrong one. Sorry. Do you mean me or yeah, no, you sorry, Austin. I did do that. I call them Alex all the time. I don't just wanted to remind everyone of the status. This is a 49,658 square foot lot. The applicant is looking to add a 1,344 square foot single family ranch style manufactured home, um, which is only allowed by uh with variants in the Sony district design board at our last public hearing requested plans to be provided, which have been by the applicant. Uh the applicant has also provided uh sketch of the process. Thank you. Mr. Scott. So the only thing the change is of the original application mentioned uh or or listed the size of it as 1,344 square feet after getting the plans and providing them to the board recognizes that the square footage according to the plan is actually 1,280 square feet. So that would be the only correction uh to the application, and so um though those plans have been provided. If there's additional questions, we'll be happy to answer them. Um do we typically get to go through the public hearing part of this all over again, being it's all documented or I think that that's up to the board's discretion. Being that I only have to go on what was recorded, um you folks are all here last month. Do you have anything? Any questions, the concerns that over and above what the abutters were already addressed? If you do, we'll open the public hearing. If not, we'll keep it closed and continue forward. I don't know. I'm like I said, I don't know the particulars. I see what Michael was asking, uh, which was more to the applicant. Uh we have the abutters concerns were well addressed. I have no okay. Well, we'll have any just no, he has none. For uh an abundance of caution because the the board has slightly different membership from the last hearing, it might be good to open up the conversation again just to um let allow the applicant and any of others to speak just to make sure that well we'll open the public hearing again. As the applicants representative, do you have anything other than the fact of the change of the unit size you'd like to add? I think I addressed everything at the previous meeting, although I would just seek leave for rebuttal after they've spoken in case I um need to rebut anything that's presented. Does any of the abutters wish to add anything that they didn't add last month?