James Tuman
Person
ZBA Chairman
275 mentions
· in our records since Mar 17, 2026
Background
Serves on:
Zoning Board of Appeals
(per 2026-06-16 attendance)
Spoken at:
Zoning Board of Appeals (8 meetings, 2025-09 to 2026-06)
Name verified via: meeting 19 minutes (Zoning Board of Appeals, 2026-01-20); meeting 19 minutes (Zoning Board of Appeals, 2026-01-20)
In our coverage:
- ZBA Interprets Animal Code: Fowl Means Any Bird, Split Vote on Coop Setbacks 2026-06-16
- ZBA Grants Front Setback Variance for Irving Avenue Addition and Fence Height Variance for Young Avenue Corner Property 2026-05-19
- ZBA Approves Three Variances With Bare Quorum in 33-Minute Meeting 2026-04-21
- Zoning board sends Mount Airy subdivision to the Planning Board after 11 neighbors speak against it 2026-03-17
- ZBA leaves 52 Mount Airy hearing open as neighbors count the trees already gone 2026-02-17
- Cottage keeps its street-facing door; Mount Airy neighbors told to wait for February 2026-01-20
Related
variance
Planning Board
public hearing
Village of Croton-on-Hudson
Zoning Board of Appeals
Ron Wegner
Bill Goldsmith
Ethan Lewis
Matt Berger
Doug Olcott
Len Simon
Mount Airy Road
Board of Trustees
52 Mount Airy Road
Village Hall
Appearances (16 most notable of 275)
Well, we're we're looking for the interpretation of what it means. Yeah. So we're not he your situation is good or bad or No, no, We're I looking at the global picture of what the Village, you know, this is gonna apply interpretation, whatever we say…
there's some looseness in the way some of these terms are used in the code. But, again, we don't know when that was written. If that was written after the 1931 original one. That's and we're talking about the keeping and harboring of animal, follow, …
Well, I think ultimately that's what's gonna happen. I I think we brought up enough issues here that, you know, we we can't the board can't even agree on on on what a what a clause reads. So, you know, a reasonable person needs little more clarity of…
VILLAGE OF CROTON-ON-HUDSON
ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS
DRAFT MINUTES OF TUESDAY, MAY 19, 2026
PRESENT: James Tuman, Chairman
Matt Berger
Doug Olcot
Bill Goldsmith
…
Good evening, everyone. Sorry for the delay, but we'll get going here. This is the 05/19/2026 meeting of the Hilton and Hudson Zoning Board of Appeals. Before we start, case of emergency, there's two exits. One there in the back, one up here. And we …
Will not have an adverse effect or impact on the physical environmental conditions on the neighborhood or district? No. I would say no. Will not. And the difficulty alleged by the applicant was was not self created? Was, right? It was. Yeah. Mhmm. 40…
VILLAGE OF CROTON-ON-HUDSON
ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS
DRAFT MINUTES OF TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2026
PRESENT: Doug Olcott, Acting Chairman
Bill Goldsmith
Matt Berger
ABSENT: Jam…
K. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the zoning board of appeals meeting for Croton And Hudson. Today is Tuesday, March 17. Before we start, just so you know, we're well, we have a lot of people here. We have two exits, one out there and one here in…
Any other questions? My thinking on this right now is there's a lot of, uncertainty, a lot of analysis that you would have to do for the planning board that may factor into our decision here, and we're and we're not typically the board for that. So w…
No. No. What what will happen is the planning board will, issue a recommendation to the zoning board, and we will still vote on it. So it could just like if we voted first, if we voted yes, the planning board could vote no. If the planning vote board…
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February 17, 2026
Via Email and Hand Delivery
Hon. James Tuman, Chair
and Members of the Village of Croton-on-Hudson ZBA
Village Hall
] Van Wyck Street
Croton-on-Hudson, New York 10520
Re: 52 M…
Right. Generally speaking. So But there's also been other others where they haven't. So that's not the one I wanna talk about. I wanna talk about number four. Sure. The adverse impact impact on their fiscal environment. And I know we have a lot of ne…
See, that's why it'd be helpful to have a full survey of everything with all the with all the grades. It's hard to I can I can my because my office, we prepared the survey in order to prepare it? So I could just print out the survey and and submit it…
VILLAGE OF CROTON-ON-HUDSON
MINUTES OF THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS
TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2026
PRESENT: James Tuman, Chairman
Doug Olcott
…
Thank you. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the Tuesday, 01/20/2026 meeting of the Croton-on-Hudson zoning board of appeals. Before we start, Just so everyone, in case of an emergency, we have two exits, one there and one there. We have two origina…
No. We're not making decision. We're saying that it's likely to have have a site visit. Likely, how I can know. I I'm not I'm not I can't comment on an application we don't have. Yes. Okay. Okay. You know, obviously, there's a lot of community intere…