Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

Today's date is September 25th, 2025.

The Pleasantville zoning board of the bills is in session.

Krause, uh Budson, and Krieger are present.

Uh normally we have five members, but our last member um retired from the board and uh a replacement has not yet been appointed.

Uh from one perspective, that should mean nothing, because we like to think that people get what they're seeking if they are entitled to get it legally, and they don't get it if they're not entitled to get it legally.

But as I'm sure all of you can read recognize as a matter of mathematics, it's easier to get three boats, and that's what you need out of five, then three out of four.

Uh if this uh situation uh causes any of the applicants here this evening to want to go over to our next meeting in the hope, and I stress the word hope.

Uh I certainly hold out no uh guarantee that this is gonna happen in the hope that we have uh another member by then certainly willing to do that and you don't have to refile and all that stuff.

Uh but uh let me know whether your case is called.

Otherwise, uh we're gonna proceed tonight.

We have a quorum, we're legally authorized to proceed, and that's what we're gonna

do.

Uh case number twenty twenty-five, fourteen, pet.

I'm getting feedback still.

Nobody has a laptop in here, right?

I

mean, I can live with it, but it's a it's a little bit

coming from Tim's

I'm in a soundproof booth, Erica.

Okay.

I don't hear it.

Let me let me start that again.

Case number twenty twenty-five fourteen, Patty and Eric Tanner, four fifty-four, Washington Avenue, post through four addition to existing single family dwelling on site in violation of section, etc.

etc.

etc.

Is the are the applicants present.

I'm Tim Leonard, the architect.

I think one of my applicants is there in the audience tonight.

I am Tim, uh you you heard what I said and you you're one of our regulars, so you know the the approach.

We've gotten our material you submitted.

We've had an opportunity to review it.

This is your opportunity to supplement your application if you want to.

Sure, we're perfectly happy with the four members tonight.

I'm glad we have four.

And if Robert wouldn't mind, I'll share my screen and I'll um explain my submission to

you.

So we're can you all see what I've got up here?

Says Timothy Leonard has started screen sharing.

Double click and there it is.

There it is.

Okay, good.

So what you're looking at is my

public see this as well.

Okay, go Tim.

So what you're looking at is uh my site plan.

We're on Washington Avenue on the west side, as you all know, the grade slopes from Washington down to the train tracks and the park way down there.

So we've got a sloping lot, which is causing the need for a third story variant, which I'll walk you through step by step.

Um, and we also have the need for a small uh de Minimus side yard setback because the existing house on the north side is at 7.96 feet, where we're eight feet is required.

We're planning on extending that plane straight up and getting no closer to the northern property line, but I ask for a few extra minuscule of a foot uh of a variance to make it an even number for a half a foot variance there on the north side.

So this house was built back in the 50s, and on the second floor, uh there's a wall at the back of the house that's only five and a half foot high, and therefore there's no part of this upper floor that is seven foot six inches in height, which is the minimum height that would uh turn it into a story.

So even though there's bedrooms and a bathroom up here, and it's you know it's a livable space, but every single almost every single part of this second floor is a sloped ceiling.

Certainly in the front, where there's a four-foot knee wall, the back, even as short as I am, I I can barely walk up to this wall.

So, what the plan, what we're asking for is to make all of the perimeter walls be a full eight foot so it can be completely usable, and we can have a nice layout for bedrooms, bathrooms, and closet spaces.

Um there's uh some work being done on the first floor and a porch and a deck that doesn't get affected by the the variance here.

Um, and this is what the elevation views look like.

This is the current front view from Washington.

It looks like a cape from the front.

Um, and we're proposing to turn it into look like a two-story.

Uh, the issue, as I mentioned before, is it's a sloping lot, and as it slopes down, what happens is the basement due to the average grade calculations and the way that it's done in Pleasantville, is that be that basement, even as it exists, becomes a story because more than half of that floor space is above the average grade.