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James Tuman

Person ZBA Chairman 275 mentions · in our records since Mar 17, 2026
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)
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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
Transcript Zoning Board of Appeals Jun 16, 2026 James Tuman SPEAKING 8:22 →
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…
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Transcript Zoning Board of Appeals Jun 16, 2026 James Tuman SPEAKING 27:56 →
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, …
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Transcript Zoning Board of Appeals Jun 16, 2026 James Tuman SPEAKING 31:00 →
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…
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Minutes Zoning Board of Appeals May 19, 2026 Read →
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 …
Transcript Zoning Board of Appeals May 19, 2026 James Tuman SPEAKING 0:10 →
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 …
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Transcript Zoning Board of Appeals May 19, 2026 James Tuman SPEAKING 26:44 →
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…
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Minutes Zoning Board of Appeals Apr 21, 2026 Read →
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…
Transcript Zoning Board of Appeals Mar 17, 2026 James Tuman SPEAKING 0:01 →
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…
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Transcript Zoning Board of Appeals Mar 17, 2026 James Tuman SPEAKING 37:00 →
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…
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Transcript Zoning Board of Appeals Mar 17, 2026 James Tuman SPEAKING 81:47 →
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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Minutes Zoning Board of Appeals Feb 17, 2026 Read →
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Transcript Zoning Board of Appeals Feb 17, 2026 James Tuman SPEAKING 5:29 →
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…
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Transcript Zoning Board of Appeals Feb 17, 2026 James Tuman SPEAKING 10:38 →
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…
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Minutes Zoning Board of Appeals Jan 20, 2026 Read →
VILLAGE OF CROTON-ON-HUDSON MINUTES OF THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2026 PRESENT: James Tuman, Chairman Doug Olcott …
Transcript Zoning Board of Appeals Jan 20, 2026 James Tuman SPEAKING 0:15 →
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…
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Transcript Zoning Board of Appeals Jan 20, 2026 James Tuman SPEAKING 16:18 →
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…
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