All right, if everyone's ready, good afternoon, everyone.

Uh, this is the Board of Zoning Appeals for February 16th, 2026.

Um, I'm gonna call it to order.

My name is Christy D'Angelo.

They've decided that I'm gonna run the meeting today, so I guess that's how we're gonna do it.

Um I will do a roll call though, starting at my right.

Tim Reddick present.

Kevin Riley.

Christy D'Angelo, present.

Eric Dunn's present.

All right.

Um now we have time for public comment.

If anyone has a comment to make that is not related to the appeals that are before the board today.

Seeing none, we will move on.

Uh, next is the approval of the meeting minutes from the November 10th of 2025 meeting.

It's been a few months since we've been here, but I need a motion to approve the minutes.

Motion to approve.

Kevin Riley seconds.

All those in favor, aye.

Okay.

Any opposed.

Motion carries.

All right.

So now on to new business, which is why you are all here.

Just to give you a little rundown kind of on how today works in case you have not been here before.

This is again the Board of Appeals.

Um, the city will go first, and Charlie will present kind of the information necessary for the board, give some background details.

If you've had conversations with him or someone in his office, he will share that information with us.

Um, when he is done, you will have the opportunity as the property owner or the agent of the property owner to ask him any questions that you might have.

Uh, when he is done, then it will be your turn to present any additional information or evidence that you want us to hear today in our consideration of your appeal.

Um then Charlie will also have an opportunity to ask you any questions, and we on the board will be operat have an opportunity to ask questions.

It's kind of a give and take as we go through this today.

Uh, maybe a little more informal than what you're expecting, but it really is just a conversation for us to figure out what's going on and then to rule for our on the petition.

Um, if you have any other witnesses or there are other people here that wish to speak to the particular appeal, they will have an opportunity to do so as well, either for or against.

Again, we'll be able to ask any comments.

I would ask anyone who's going to speak when it's your turn, please come up to the microphone, the podium in the center of the room when you get there, and I will try to remind you.

Please state your first and last name and your um uh physical address just for the record, um, so we can have a complete record on file.

And then when everyone's done saying their piece and all the questions have been answered, we will close the testimony part of this.

We will deliberate an open forum so you'll be able to hear our conversation on the petition or on the appeal.

Then we will go through and make findings and you will have a judgment or an order an answer before you leave here today.

So with that, we will start with ID number 26-02876, the appeal of Bethesda LLC for a dimensional variance from section 22.38 sub-7 sub-C of the zoning code.

If granted, the variants will allow for the reconstruction of the manufacturing building at 576 Elizabeth Street, six inches from the rear lot line, where a rear yard setback of not less than 25 feet is required.

Uh so Charlie.

All right.

Uh so this is 576 Elizabeth Street.

It is uh a manufacturing storage building.

Uh it's adjacent to the the Jiffy gel plant, uh, which is currently operated by uh Aries Industries, um, and the properties owned by Bethesda LLC.

Um here it is from Elizabeth Street.

Uh it's the building on the left, uh, which is not very easily visible.

And then from the uh parking lot in front of it, the um the uh building is uh right up to the uh right up to the parking lot, and it's a very utilitarian building.

Um the there's a section in the rear.

Uh the building is is built in several several different uh sections and additions.

Um the section in the rear uh was removed a few years ago.

Um so here you can see it from 2018.

This is from uh facing from the uh uh from the north.

Um you can see where the section in the rear was, and then that has been removed.

It was in in uh um in the kind of a state of disrepair.

It was uh a very old section of building.

So that was removed, and uh the applicants would like to uh rebuild in essentially the same uh the same location.

So you can see a portion of the building still does extend right up to that uh rear lot line, and then the adjacent building, the the uh the uh Chiffy gel plant, the Aries Industries building uh also extends uh right up to that lot line.