Good evening and welcome to the City of Lakewood Board of Zoning Appeals meeting February 20th, 2025.

The first item on the docket is the roll call.

Miss Nocta, if you could please.

Michael Alexander.

Here.

Gillian Bellino.

Matt Markley.

Jeffrey Piggett.

Here.

Anthony Santiago.

Remind me again.

Do we need to excuse his extraction?

Anyone would like to motion?

All in favor?

Aye.

Aye.

Number two on the document is the approval of the minutes from the January 16th, 2025 meeting.

If everyone has had a chance to review those, we can make a motion to approve it this time.

I'll make a motion to approve the January 16th, 2025 meeting minutes.

Second.

All in favor.

Aye.

Aye.

Item number three on the docket is the opening remarks.

Mrs.

Nocta, if you could please.

Welcome to the Board of Zoning Appeals.

For a variance to be granted, the board must get sufficient information from your presentation to determine if your property meets the practical difficulty test.

All documents included with an application to the board and any addendas, statements, maps, diagrams, sketches, letters, photographs, or other materials proffered to the board by any person, shall be considered by the board prior to rendering its decision on the application.

No permit shall be issued unless submitted plans conformed to those approved by the board.

If modifications are made to the approved plans, a successive variance request must be filed and approved to account for the modification.

For the record, please sign the form on the podium and state your name and address.

This serves as an oath or affirmation that you will tell the truth before the board.

We will now begin with the regular business of the Board of Zoning Appeals.

Thank you, Miss Nocta.

First item of old business is number four zero one zero one-two five six uh fourteen sixty-four Riverside Drive.

If the applicant could please, applicant or representative, please come to the podium.

Thanks.

Sign in, state your name and relationship to the property, please.

Jeremy Dotson, con general contractor, um for the client.

Thank you.

Um I know we saw you last month, but if you could um kind of give us a refresh and uh show what's changed since last time we saw we took uh and I apologize on behalf of the homeowner, she has slipped and hurt herself, so she's kind of out of commission, and um the architect is out with uh illness uh he's battling some personal issues.

So you guys get me for till we get this ironed out.

So um basically I went back at the last meeting and took everybody's input in uh from the board here from our meeting and went back with the homeowner and the architect to try to uh you know took in everybody's information, took in everybody's comments, got the homeowner and redeveloped and reworked and and and tried to utilize homeowners' needs to your guys' needs and and well, not what it needs, would be suggestions uh to your comments.

So hopefully uh Mr.

Fisher sent all that proper information in you guys had a chance to review it with the new lay with the new house layout.

Um start off with removing the existing garage, which we're homeowner was trying to incorporate in the prior um designs.

Um, you know, to kind of pick up what uh Justin had made mention in the meeting minutes that you know the existing footers and structure was probably inadequate to new building codes.

Um and it was also I do believe Mr.

Santiago was worried uh what some offsets and some concerns with the amount of space uh between the property line and the garage to enter the home.

Um so um and again, I think we just took a lot of comments from you guys and just went back and tried to review them and reincorporate them to come in with a better plan of attack.

Um I know we had a lot of space off of Riverside uh on the front uh partial offset.

Um and I know it was suggested maybe we slide the home forward uh by sliding home forward.

We took that information.

We did slide the home forward to still I do believe comply with the front offset requirements.

Um and then in lieu of that we got rid of the garage, was able to bring the garage, still keep the garage attached to the home as a homeowner would really like to have for again multiple purposes, like you guys said she's an older woman lady, and um you know, just security.

She would like to be able to exit her car and enter the house securely.

So now you can see with the new developed design, you have a two-car garage attached to the home with two points of entry if necessary.

You got an interior point of entry from the car into the house, and also an exterior entry from the garage and to a covered porch area, stoop, and then also into the house and ring through mud rooms on the rear of the location of the house.

Uh still allowing uh front entry off a riverside, uh coming into a foyer with a uh split foyer for a uh right and left unit entry.