On Wednesday, June 21, 2023, the City of Tempe Board of Adjustment convened at 2:00 PM (14:00) to consider an appeal and routine administrative items. With only five board members present (instead of the usual seven), Chairperson noted that four affirmative votes would be required for the appeal to succeed. The appellant requested a continuance, which was granted by a 3-2 vote. The board also unanimously approved the minutes from the January 25, 2023, meetings and adjourned.
All right, we're gonna get started here. Welcome to the City of Tempe Board of Adjustment meeting for June 21st, 2023. The City of Tempe Board of Adjustment is authorized by the Arizona revised statutes, the City of Tempe zoning ordinance. Its function is to grant relief where a literal enforcement of the zoning ordinance would result in an unnecessary property hardship to interpret provisions of the zoning ordinance variances and to hear appeals from any city or I'm sorry, any person or city official aggrieved by the decision of the person responsible for the enforcement of the zoning ordinance, the zoning administrator and or hearing officer. The board has the City of Tempe Community Development Staff Summary Reports on the item being considered today at this meeting and will use this report in our deliberations. All applicants and interested citizens, when your request is called or when you wish to address the board, please make sure you filled out one of the citizen request forms located by the table or on the table by the doors. Then step up to the microphone, state your name and city of residence. Please submit the form to a staff member before you then begin speaking at the microphone. The staff we have in attendance today are Jeff Tamulevich, the director of community development, Ryan LeVasque, Deputy Director of Community Development, Steve Abramson, Principal Planner, Jennifer Daniels, Administrative Assistant, and Eddie Garcia for Media. So with that, we'll do a roll call. We'll start with board member Morrill. Present. Board Member Kegy. Present. Present. And board member Palmer. Present. Okay. So today we do have a short board in place. Normal uh quorum is four. Uh, in order for your um appeal to be uh successful, you'll need four of the five votes here. We our normal board capacity is seven, um, but we're at five today. Um therefore you have you have the option to proceed or ask for a continuance to the next regularly scheduled meeting, which would be in July ninth, I think it was the 19th, if I'm correct. Uh yes, please. Evan Schlack, I'm Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel for North Site Recovery, the appellant. Is it the same ratio? The four to seven if it's the full board. It would be four of seven. You have to you have to have four. So if there were four people here, you'd have to have all four affirmative. If there are seven, it needs four of that seven. Today we have five. I think it would be in our benefit to ask for a continuance if we can. We can grant that, Mr. Abramson. Do I need to do anything specific? You need to do a roll call vote. Some somebody needs a motion to allow for the continuance, must be seconded, so on. Okay. So I'll look for a motion to allow or deny the continuance. Board member Morrow. I will move for a continuance to our July 19th meeting. Okay. Second. Second. Uh Board Member Kige seconds. I will take a vote. Um, please, if you're in support, please say affirmative or aye. Board member Morrill. Okay, got that.