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The Town of Huntington Zoning Board of Appeals met on October 29, 2026, for a regular evening meeting. The board approved the previous week's minutes, conducted six public hearings, and handled other business including zone change referrals, a consultant resolution, and accessory dwelling unit preliminary approvals. Five of the six applications were granted; one decision was reserved. The meeting adjourned to November 5, 2026.
Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the zoning board of appeals for the town of Huntington for our meeting of October the 29th, 2026. Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag. One is under God. Please be seated. First order of business tonight is for the minutes of October the 22nd, 2026, last week. If there are no deletions, additions or corrections to make, I'll entertain a motion to accept the minutes. I'll make that motion. Mr. McGrath on the motion, Mr. Castagna on the second. All in favor. Any opposed, the minutes are accepted. Don are all the applications properly sworn to for the postings and the publications to give us jurisdiction for the hearings tonight. 23784, 10 Jameson Court and East North Port. Two three seven seven four four twenty-seven Wolf Hill Road and Dix Hills. And finally, two three seven eight six, which is nine fifty East Jericho Turnpike in Huntington Station. Well, the applicant or the representative of the applicant for two three seven four seven twenty-seven Carmen Road Dick Sales. Please address the board. Now this is just south of where Carmen Road begins at its intersection with Wolf Hill Road. Perhaps you know Terry Farrell Park is right there. Terry Farrell was a volunteer chief of the Dix Hills Fire Department and a member of the FDNY when he lost his life at thirty-nine years old at nine-eleven. This property belongs to my clients, Joel Rojas Ortiz and Felix Martinez, and they purchased it in 2022. It's an extraordinarily well-maintained piece of property. Mrs. Martin looking at the photographs, took a particular shine to it when I filed the application. It's improved with a dwelling, as I mentioned, as well as a rear in ground pool. Joel and Felix would like to add an addition to the property. And their practical difficulty is for the reason I stated at the outset, this is a substandard lot. We do not have the requisite lot width for the R 40 zone in which it's located. Within the R40, which is our one acre residential zone, lots have to be 125 feet across. We're only 97 feet across. So when you have 25% less lot width than the zone requires, you're going to have an awfully difficult time meeting the minimum side yard setbacks. And the minimum side yard setbacks of the R 40 are 25 feet on each side with a 50-foot aggregate. Further complicating the appellants' practical difficulty is that it is, as I mentioned, an improved lot. So they have to work off where the existing single family dwelling has been sited on the property. So from a technical standpoint, we are going to be holding a 36 foot aggregate across the property, and all of the additions, the entirety of the addition is on the easterly side of the premises. We are in the R 40, so we need that lot width variance, and we need the side yard setback variants. Notably, we have an excess of the minimum lot area. We have 1.3 acres. But if you looked at the survey, which comprises part of your digital pack this evening, those 1.3 acres are put into a long bowling alley shaped lot. It runs 500 feet deep. And the house now doesn't meet side yard setbacks. And indeed, relief was issued for that some years ago, so the prior homeowner could uh expand it. Um what we have tonight, Joseph Scarpula, our project architect, he's located in Huntington. We're merely looking to make the house more amenable and up to today's standards.