And then uh if he's not here, maybe wait five minutes.

Just make a day.

I shouldn't even know that today.

Does he have a phone number?

Is it a good one?

There is a phone number on here.

Correct.

All right, shall we call the meeting to order?

All right.

Needless to say, I'm not going to go through the SPU.

I think we all know we're here, but I I will.

Oh, you want to say what the meeting is?

Yes.

So we will uh open the meeting of the zoning board of adjustment uh for May 9th.

June 9th.

I'm saying May 9th.

June 9th, sorry.

Totally out of it today.

I glanced down and saw May, that's right.

Um and I will begin by calling the role.

I'm ZBA Chair, Jay Mencarr, and I am present.

Uh Mr.

Neely.

Present.

And Mr.

Boucher.

Present.

Mr.

Shaw.

Present.

Mr.

Lionel.

Present.

And Mr.

Petrie.

Present.

We are all present.

We do have a full compliment of board members here this evening.

So Mr.

Petrie, welcome to participate in all of our discussions.

But unless somebody recuses themselves for voting on the minutes, I think he won't be voting this evening.

So we um will do have one case that was uh postponed.

Well, I should say um we should probably take a vote on postponing this to a date certainly.

It was to July 14th.

So July 14th is uh the consensus.

So uh could we have could I have a motion to continue the Salt Creek Properties LLC and Cutter Place Properties LLC case?

So moved to move by Mr.

Lionel to July 14th.

Do we have a second?

Seconded by Mr.

Shaw.

Uh any discussion.

Seeing none, all those in favor?

The motion passes.

And that includes the the uh use variance and the special exception of just the case.

Yes, it does.

Yes, the case in total.

Uh apologize for not clarifying.

That's that's okay, that's good.

Yes, indeed.

Uh and since there is nobody uh here present for the Blue Coral Canal LLC case, we are going to pass that over at least for the time being and move on to well, the uh agenda for the upcoming meeting.

Does anybody see uh hopefully everybody's had a chance to review it?

Does anybody see any cases that would be a regional impact?

No, I do not know I do not either.

So seeing um none, uh we'll then move on to approval of minutes for the prior reading.

And has everybody had a chance to remember the minutes?

Yes.

Yes.

Any comments?

Questions?

Excellent.

Seeing none.

I was lost, I was asking.

Um somebody like to make a motion to approve the minutes.

I'd like to make a motion to approve the minutes of Tuesday, May 26th as presented.

Is there a second?

Second by Mr.

Shaw.

Any discussion on the motion.

Seeing none, all those in favor.

All right, are you by chance here for blue coral uh um for a blue coral canal LLC?

And are you the applicant?

No, I'm designed are you representing the applicant?

Okay, perfect.

Great.

Um so given that the uh applicant's representative is present.

Um I'm gonna read the case into the record.

I I will just back up a little bit.

Um I don't see anybody else here in the audience, but just so you know, um, the order of businesses, uh I'll read the case into the record, and then you as the applicant's representative will have up to 15 minutes to address the board.

I don't see anybody here uh who would speak in favor or with questions, concerns or opposition.

And so after you have uh your testimony, we'll close um the hearing.

We will uh open up the deliberations to the board, uh unless the board has questions, uh, which of course they could ask, um then we will deliberate and make a decision.

So that's your order of business.

So I'm gonna go ahead and read the case into the record.

Uh so this is the application of Blue Coral Canal LLC.

Um a nod, um that's I know I butchered it.

20 Canal Street requesting a use variance from land use code section 190-15, table 15-1, number 15, to add one additional residential unit to an existing three-unit building.

Thank you.

My name's Michael Corda 39 East Unstable Road I represent benchmark designs my client uh was uh granted the additional two units back uh in the early part of the year uh we've come up with a little bit better solution for him um and we've added one more unit bringing it to six uh with the new unit would balance off the back of the building uh number one uh number two there's off there's plenty of parking but while balancing off the building we've created a great fire safety uh platform between the two units now as well as accompanying uh the existing building because it really doesn't have a fire escape so with the new one now it's gonna accommodate three of the units um to have uh two means of aggress off the back of the building plus it has inside um stairwells out of the building uh and has one side entrance uh for two of the units but they'll all have two means of regress uh an open concept uh there's plenty of parking so there's uh we've got equivalent to 14 available parking spots uh there now uh we have some one unit uh proposed some two bedrooms uh so it's gonna be a little bit of mixed use uh for those um but uh the main point of the whole building is it's gonna solve a lot of his issues with the building dealing with trying to deal with the flat roofs uh um and uh poor fire safety regulations okay any anything else you'd like to add no I'm good thank you though questions from the board Mr.

Shaw is there I guess two there's two questions I've got one is is there any change to the size of the units that was originally part of the two additional units that was you know part of the application previously yes uh so one of the units uh was the existing garage they're gonna modify that um what we've done is in the back of the second floor of that uh garage is a flat roof um so we've extended out over the back of that first floor unit creating the new fire safety that runs along the back of the building that picks up the existing building as well as that new bedroom and then everything in between so the new the sorry the new uh unit would just go over the other unit that has a flat roof okay and um do you happen to have the dimensions for then all three units that are being added and I also maybe just and I and how many bedrooms each of those three additional units are so one of the units will have one bedroom uh one of them will have uh the basement of the the lower level of the garage has one bedroom uh upper level of the garage has two bedrooms and the new unit will have two bedrooms and the approximate square footage of each of those three and it doesn't have to be exact but just uh we talked about this the previous so uh the lower level of the garage as it is now yeah it's 507 square feet the upper level uh with the new added space is 759 and then the the new structure on the left side will be 615 okay all right thank you for the questions from the board anything else you'd like to add I'm here to answer whatever question well if there are no questions from the board then you're free to take a seat thank you I do have some updated plans if anybody's if they're different than what we saw in the packet yes I think these are more uh colorful yeah yeah yeah no no I especially since you brought yeah we've also uh had the we also had the uh property surveyed um just to confirm uh all the same uh because a mix of where the lines are so we took on ourselves to have that dying yeah and you will see uh and there's a sheet actually is the sheet

Yeah, yeah, but uh no, no, I'm especially since you brought them.

Yeah.

We also had the uh property surveyed um just to confirm uh the same uh because of where the lines are, so we took it upon ourselves to have that dying.

Yeah, and you will see uh there's a sheet the sheet FS towards the back.

That's the that's all the new fire safety walkways.

Um extra kicking good sure.

Yeah, it's pretty much better.

We need for the record anyway.

Yeah, yeah, sorry.

Just seeing these plans trigger any additional questions from the board.

Not too many, not for me.

Not from either.

Okay, and uh I I we do note I believe you are the owner.

Is there anything that you'd like to add before we close the hearing?

I'm sorry.

Is there anything that you'd like to say to the board before we close the hearing?

I know you didn't have a chance to hear the whole presentation previously.

Oh, is that we have those shades in the noise and uh just being here?

Right, I'm just asking, is there anything you'd like to add?

Do you like to say will we postpone Buck Meadow?

Yeah, yeah.

All right, so uh any other questions from the board?

No.

Seeing none, you're free to take a seat.

Thank you.

And given that, we're gonna close the public hearing and open up the deliberations of the board.

Thoughts from the board.

Mr.

Nealing.

So I'm in favor.

Um, you know, when they came the first time, it's it's a very interesting building.

Um, you know in a you know, kind of tucked away.

Um there's a ton of parking there.

I actually think adding in this additional apartment solves safety issues of this building.

And I love I love a double take on stuff like that, right?

When you're solving a problem while adding in more housing stock, it's a win-win for everybody.

Really, it's the same basic footprint on the property.

Um, you know, the houses are a little little tighter in that area as noted.

There's just a massive amount of parking there, which is great.

14 spaces as noted by the applicant.

So um, I'm in favor of this application.

Other thoughts.

I I just add I I I agree, and I think even with the additional units, the six units, um, you know, it's still consistent with the density and the character of the area.

Anybody want to make a motion?

I will take it.

Okay, I would like to make a motion to approve the subvariance application.

Approve the variance application for blue oral canal LLC owner Anand Mahendrakar applicant 20 Canal Street Sheet 42, lot 47.

Requesting use variants from land use code section 190-15, table 15-1, subsection number 15 to add one additional residential unit to an existing three-unit building, two additional units were approved by the zoning board on 428-26 and not constructed, bringing the total to six residential units.

This is in the LB zone in ward three.

Uh granting the variance would not be contrary to the public interest, and that the housing in this area is relatively dense as well, so having a multi-unit uh building uh as many as six units is in character with other buildings that are in uh in and around that same area.

The spirit of the ordinance would be observed.

Uh once again, this is a higher density area, and the applicant actually actually came up with a great idea to solve some fire egress issues by adding another uh unit to this uh building, and once again it is not going to change the general footprint of the building.

Uh granting the variants would do substantial justice in that the request is in character with other houses in that neighborhood, uh so there would be no reason to deny him based on a higher density on this property.

Uh as noted, there is more than enough parking uh that goes with this building to uh support the amount of units, which is six uh on this building.

Um the values of the surrounding properties uh would not be diminished.

Uh we have not had any type of testimony either way, but uh the board's general uh knowledge of this area is that this would not decrease any home values and as to unnecessary hardship as noted last time the applicant was here.

Uh this is a uh a house with a uh very interesting shape and an unused amount of area at the garages.

Um the city is trying to add housing stock, especially of this size uh units, uh which were between look like 500 and 700 square feet as as uh starter stock.

Um this is consistent with what the city is trying to do down in this area, and um once again the lot uh in hold, including all the parking area is a relatively large oversized lot for this area.

Um so for those reasons I make a uh motion to approve the variants.

Is there a second?

Second by Mr.

Shaw.

Uh any discussion on the motion.

Seeing none, all those in favor.

Various requests have been granted.

As you probably are recall from last time, there was a 30-day window of appeal, so seems unlikely that anybody would take that avenue, but good to know.

And you're free to proceed.

Thank you.

So since we covered our other business, is there anything else?

Motion to adjourn.

Second it's a good one.

We are adjourned, should we hold on to the paperwork that we got for the on the bucket?

Yep.

There may be a lot of things.