The Tempe Board of Adjustment met on January 25, 2023, at 1:00 PM (evening session). The meeting began with the announcement of the election of Richard Watson as Chair and Jack Confer as Vice Chair, conducted in a prior study session. The board then approved the minutes from December 14, 2022, and heard an appeal from William Gay regarding a hearing officer's decision to authorize a 180-day open abatement at his property at 625 West 3rd Street.
Good evening. My name is Steve Abraham. I'm principal planner with the city of Tempe. I normally don't uh start these meetings, but uh I am this evening. So welcome to the Board of Adjustment for January 25th, 2023. The reason that I'm beginning this meeting is to announce that in our study session this evening. We had a vote uh for a new chair and a new vice chair. And I'm happy to report that uh Richard Watson has been uh uh elected as the chair for the board of adjustment, and Jack Confer is now the vice chair of this board. So I uh will pass off to Mr. Watson to begin the meeting. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, so we'll call the meeting to order. Chair, chair. There we go. We'll call the meeting to order. Uh welcome to the City of Tempe Board of Adjustment Meeting for January 25th, 2023. The City Board of Adjustment is an author is authorized by the Arizona revised statutes and the City of Tempe zoning ordinance. Its function is to grant relief or a literal enforcement of the zoning ordinance would result in an unnecessary property hardship to interpret the provisions of the zoning ordinance ordinance and variances, and to hear appeals from any person or city offici official aggrieved by the decision of the person responsible for the enforcement of the zoning ordinance. That would normally be the zoning uh administrator or the hearing officer, their abasements. Uh the board has the city of Tempe Community Development Staff Summary Reports on the items that are being considered this evening, and we'll use this report uh in the deliberations. Continue on the end. All applicants and interested citizens. Uh when you are request is called or when you wish to address the board, please make sure that you have filled out one of the citizens' request forms located on the table by the doors. Uh then step to the microphone, state your name and city of residence. Please submit the form to a staff member before you begin speaking at the microphone. For today's meeting, we want to introduce the staff that is in attendance. We have Jeff. I'm gonna butcher it, Jeff Tomolvich. Tammy Levich. Pardon me? Tammy Levitch. Temmy Levitch. Oh, sorry, uh Director for of community development. Ryan Levasque, Deputy Director of Community Development. Ryan is on the phone. Um Drew Yochum, Code Enforcement Manager for Community Development. Steve Abranson, the principal planner, Lily Drosos, our planner, Sidney Dietering, planning technician, Jennifer Daniels, administrative assistant, and Eddie Garcia providing media support. So we'll start with a roll call for the members. Let me go ahead and introduce the members. We have board member Morrow to my left, board member Gance, Vice Chair Confer, myself, Richard Watson to my right, board member Keggy, Board Member Palmer, and Board Member Nogle. Okay. Chair Watson, we also have uh Brett Siegel. Oh, we have alternate Brett Siegel in the audience uh for a part of our agenda today. First up first item up will be approval of the meeting minutes for December 14th, 2022. We'll ask Mr. Siegel to come up and sit in so that we can have a vote. So uh we we have uh we need to vote on to approve the meeting minutes from the last meeting. Um I will need to abstain from the vote as I was not present. Uh which board members were present at the meeting.