retaining wall
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22 mentions
· in our records since Dec 9, 2025
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Planning Board
23 Nordica Drive
site plan approval
Minor Site Plan
PERMA
Mark Franzoso
variance
South Riverside
steep slopes
Lauren Davis
Mount Airy Road
infrastructure
South Riverside Avenue
Levin Law Group
side yard variance
Appearances (19 most notable of 22)
you're talking about the back to the steep slopes. One thing I'm struggling with is these retaining walls and, particularly the ones more towards the back where it looks like they're about 10 feet tall. Back here, it's two forty eight, top. Bottom is…
we had to have a little bit of a higher retaining wall there. Yeah. I mean, it's a substantial retaining wall. In some points, it could be up to 14 feet.
Well, again, if we're gonna be falling the house forward, a lot of these retaining walls will go away.
And then similarly on, just down the same page, minor say site plan approval is now something the planning board handles for you'll see on on page 23 numbers six, seven, eight, nine down the bottom of those pages. So the noncommercial swimming pool, …
You wanna show We we started developing a landscaping drawing. So what we what we do is for screening around, we never just put a row of, you know, green dry and arborvitae, which a lot of people just do. We try to create a a mixture of some holly an…
modifications, not here. Here, building a retaining wall to to catch this grade. It's not my glasses aren't that good. I'm trying to look at what you're pointing at. So here's the here's the proposed driveway. Right. I'm just to the left of it. This …
I'll do this. I am gonna read from prepared letter because it has the weight of 45 signatures behind it, and these are folks who are, who are off on vacation because of the rescheduling. Can you please state your name and address? Oh, yeah. I'm sorry…
• Approved amended minor site plan for 23 Nordica Drive with revised retaining wall configuration
• All conditions from original 06/20/2023 site plan resolution remain in effect
• As-built drawings required prior to issuance of certificate of occupan…
Mark Franzoso had a simple explanation for why the retaining walls at 23 Nordica Drive didn't match what the Planning Board originally approved: he was just making the place look nice.
"When you build a house and you finish off especially the outsid…
So I just mentioned in this letter from the Levin Law Group that say the material one of the material points it's made is that the current construction includes an unapproved permanent retaining wall near the property line with setbacks under 12 feet…
And that's what I've always I did not read the letter. I, you know, didn't think it was necessary to read it. Truthfully, it means retaining walls. I mean, whether I I know the other guy on the other side, Davidson, wanted to have me stop working and…
So I'll read it just because not everybody has a copy of it. It says whereas the planning board approved a minor site plan application on 06/20/2023 for Mark Franzoso, the applicant for construction of a new single family house, and whereas the subje…
• Approved amended site plan for 25 South Riverside Avenue multifamily building
• Required neighbor-agreed arborvitae plantings to be documented on final plans
• Required wall certification before certificate of occupancy
• Added condition requiring …
One board member successfully pushed to add a condition requiring vine or similar plantings to soften the rear retaining wall — a detail not originally in the plan but roundly supported. "We try to augment even if we don't have to," Rossi said.
And then the ones at the top of the retaining wall, just yeah. Right there. Never change. Those are the original. Same.
Those are in a those are in, like, a pocket that's lower than the top of the retaining wall. Right. Those are down below. The the neighbors in the back won't see those. Those are really for
Just talking about, essentially, plans for a party space on top, and they decided to go ahead with that even in the face of much protest and promised there would be nothing that would be visible from the back of Van Wyck. And well, you know what? I'l…
So those are really the two, but the the big obviously, if you wanna separate them, the shed, as you can see from the photograph, is a shed again. It's existed since they've had the house. It is sort of set down behind the house. You can't see it fro…
Yeah. Let me so let me address the Yeah. If you're good with the shed, as far as the discussion goes, let me address the house. Again, this is this is from, you know, almost a half century ago, like, existing conditions when they bought it. The littl…