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Before we get started, I want to uh point out that appeal number 3268 is being continued by agreement of the parties to September to the September uh zoning hearing board hearing.

Uh the first item on the agenda this evening is appeal 326, the appellant Andrew Wattenhof and Corinne Chan, property located at one forest lane, forest road, and zoned R2 residential.

The applicant seeks uh a variance from section two eighty-20C front yard setback and section 2 20 uh uh a rear yard setback to construct an addition.

The proposed improvements are located uh within a regulated riparian buffer associated with the adjacent stream corridor.

Appellant uh requests such variants, special exception or other uh relief as may be required under chapters two forty-five and two eighty of the Radner Township code to permit construction of the proposed addition.

Good evening, members of the board.

Uh my name is Fred Fromhold.

Uh, I'm an attorney and represent the applicants uh Andrew uh Fontenhoff and uh Corinne Chen, and we have this application seeking a variance uh with respect to the side or the uh rear yard setback and the front yard setback for what is as you will see a very uh irregularly shaped property.

Uh we have two witnesses whose testimony we would like to present to you this evening, uh the owner uh Corin Chen and uh our architect Todd Kenzel.

And uh before doing that, what I would like to do is uh hand out to each of you an exhibit package that uh will list uh the various exhibits that we'll be referring to this evening, and then I'd like to just run through that uh package with you and uh then call our two witnesses to offer testimony.

Okay, yeah, we need we need to ask me the file.

Is there a file over there?

No.

Okay, you have two copies?

I got two.

Okay.

There's only three of us.

So each one, two, three, three.

Okay.

So for the record.

For the record, uh, going forward, we're gonna be uh working off of the exhibits uh that have been handed up this evening.

Is that right?

Uh that is correct.

And uh they're consistent with the exhibits that were attached to the application which was filed, which we would ask the board to take judicial notice of uh that as the application in this matter rather than marking it independently as an exhibit.

Yes.

What I would like to do is just uh explain to you uh to orient you on the property and the and the issue in this case.

Uh we have nine exhibits.

Uh the first exhibit is a Google Earth uh street uh plan that shows uh forest road and the property at one forest is uh circled.

Uh that is a house that is in that location, and you'll see Gulf Creek that runs uh immediately behind it, and the orientation on this uh Google plan as it is on the uh and I'm in the line of sight here.

Uh the orientation on the uh Google plan is to the north.

So as you look at that plan, uh the uh house is a red circle around it, the Gulf Creek uh runs to the north of the house.

That's A1.

A2 is a Google Earth aerial view, and uh this shows the uh improvements that are on forest, the other homes it shows the uh property at one forest, which is the subject of this application that is the first property in off of Eagle Road on the uh east side of Forest.

And you'll see a line between the back of one forest and the property that is uh at the corner of Eagle in North Wayne.

Uh that is a home, and uh that is a home that uh uh would be in a position to view where the proposed addition is in the rear yard here.

Although, as you can see from this aerial photograph, there's a 300 foot separation of football field between uh the proposed improvement and the existing home at the corner of uh North Wayne and Eagle, and there is uh heavy and dense vegetation as depicted in that aerial photograph.

And we have a photograph that uh will be at the ground view looking back there that you'll see that same screening.

A three is our proposed uh site plan.

It's based on a survey plan made by Howell Engineers and Todd Kenzel, who is the architect for this project will testify about the uh important aspects of that plan.

But the area that you see see uh somewhat central to the lot uh in gray is uh the area where the addition is proposed.

Uh the home is shown, there is an existing one car garage, and the proposal is to uh have that one car garage be converted to some ancillary space that would connect it, uh, laundry room, mud room, to a new two-car garage that is being built to the south of the home or southeast of the home, and uh that will be two stories uh with a garage on the lower level and uh two bedrooms that would be uh above for the family, and uh you'll hear why that is necessary.

The next uh exhibit uh is the concept rendering prepared by uh Mr.

Kenzel, and he'll tell you about that.

This is what the home would look like if the addition for which we request approval uh is built.

Uh the next that was A4, A5 is uh a floor plan exhibit.

Mr.

Kenzel will talk to you about that, what is proposed for the first level of this building edition as well as the uh level above it and in the uh connector area, which is where the existing one car garage is located.

Uh then we go to A6, A6 has uh two photographs in it.

Uh the top photograph is a view of the property as it uh exists uh today, actually within the last couple of days, and uh that is at the top, and the bottom photograph of A6 is looking at the property from uh the southern portion of the property uh where you would uh enter forest having made a right-hand turn from Eagle Road if you were coming from uh North Wayne Avenue and Eagle Road.

So that is uh that is the area you'll see the uh the car that is parked in front of the existing one-car garage, and you also see to the right of that a shed, and in between the existing one car garage and the shed is a patio, and the patio in the shed are proposed to be removed, and this uh addition uh that we will describe to you uh would be located there.

A seven is uh an exhibit uh that is being introduced in connection with uh the repairing uh setback requirement of the code.

Under the Radner Township Code in the R2 district, there is a 30-foot, 35-foot repairing setback that is required, and that is measured uh by definition of repairing setback from the top of the bank of the stream to 35 feet.

So that is a protected area within that setback.

You'll hear testimony that where the proposed addition is being located is at least 55 feet from the top of the bank.

And the way we determine the top of the bank is by combining the photographs that were showing you here, the fence that is shown in the photographs, because that same fence is surveyed on A3.

So you'll see the fence that's surveyed on A3, and if you measure 35 feet back from that fence past the house to where the addition is located, your way past the 35 feet, uh it's 55 feet.

So we believe that there should be no repairing setback issue in this case.

Under the code, uh the uh determination as to the location of a rare reparian setback on a property is to be made by the township engineer.

We've been trying to meet with Mr.