a good idea. Just have the the women of village artists at the library. So it could be women village government related volunteers or workers event. Good idea. Okay. So I, along with, deputy mayor Simon, are, have the privilege to be liaisons to the …

I can give a quick up engineer's report update on this. Sure. Because some things actually apply if people are listening in the audience as well somewhere. Rental registry letters went out. I'm not sure if anyone's aware or has one, but if you rent y…

A proposal to subdivide a wooded parcel on Mount Airy Road drew a crowd of opposition at the Zoning Board of Appeals meeting on February 17, with 45 residents signing a letter urging the board to reject two lot-width variances.

But neighbors weren't convinced. Deborah Schpack of 16 King Street read a letter signed by 45 residents warning that the variances would open the door to intensified development on environmentally constrained land. "The letter cited concerns regardin…

=== HEADLINE === ZBA pushes subdivision plan to planning board after tree removal clash === SUMMARY === The Zoning Board of Appeals referred a controversial two-lot subdivision at 52 Mount Airy Road to the Planning Board after residents and board me…

Good evening. For the record, Corey Salomon from Zarin and Steinmetz, here tonight on behalf of the applicant. I have Andrew Cortesi, the applicant with me, as well as Michael Mastrojakimo, our project engineer, and my colleague Jacqueline Cohen. So …

It's it's if you look at the site plan, it's pretty steep on the first portion on the left as you go in the driveway. But one point I'll make is that you're coming to us for a variance, and I understand that you've engineered this to be the minimal y…

and you're asking for a variance one way or another. But the variance has nothing to do with the driveway nor does it have the any to do with the location of the house or the size of the house. We're looking for a 200 able to consider the impact. So …

that, but we can look at No. It's not the elevations. It's setbacks. Oh. So so what hold Right. But, again, the lot area variance has nothing to do with anything else. So now we have a minimum lot width. We have minimum setbacks that we have to keep …

It's Setbacks have nothing to do with the shape of the lot. Ethan's point is you could come back for variance for that.

To to but but but but for the minimum relief required. Right. Right. So this was the layout that gives us the minimum request. Right? If we come back in the setbacks, I don't know. The setbacks, we may need four variances as opposed But but but a 1% …

and and I'm gonna prove to you it has nothing to do with what you're disc you know, what you're projecting right now. I could take this house. I could squeeze it in, make it smaller. I could shoot pull it forward. No problem. I'll I'll make it work. …

We could do that. I I don't you know? No. We could try to reduce as many trees as possible. I have no problem doing that. Based on the trees. But he but for all intents purposes, we're here for the lot variance. Right. As far as that whole thing, I c…

Well, I we we need the 250 square foot variance in order to continue,

So that's not fun. Okay. I just wanna make a point. We we didn't we didn't we don't prefer it for the back. We were just trying to comply with minimal variances, obviously. That's what we're trying to you know, we eat up a lot of land with the drivew…

My name is Edward Wohl. I'm at 55 Quaker Bridge Road, and I'm about to read a memo prepared by Stuart and Karen Greenbaum who are unavailable. This memo will serve to buttress my prior letter to the board objecting to this project. I note that the ap…

Thank you. My name is Gabriela Mirabelli. The residents here tonight are not the ones who need to make a case. A variance is a legal exception to existing zoning, and the burden of justifying that exception rests entirely with the applicant, not with…

Hi. My name is doctor Sherry Truin. I live at 25 Mountain Trail. I've lived in the trails for twenty years. I don't really plan to speak today, but, I I do really want to urge you to deny this request for a variance, speaking as somebody whose own pr…

Good evening. My name is Dan Kayer. I live at 40 South Mount Road, which is on the corner of King Street and Mount Airy. And I live with my wife and my two daughters. And I submitted some videos to the board that showed video videos of flooding on Ki…

Hi. My name is David Steele. I'm at 56 Mount Airy Road, which abuts the 52 Property. I submitted a letter to the board, and I spoke at the last meeting. And I wasn't intending on speaking again, but I just wanted to, respond to a few things that were…

My, you all are volunteers, and I appreciate the time you put in this and you're caring for the the town. Though I don't see the solution of moving the house forward, it tells me you haven't been to the location because there's quite a big hill there…

Ask you a question. Yeah. Sure. Can the planning board issue a variance?

Okay? Right. Can I ask you another question? Sure. So there are zoning laws that some folks here have mentioned that you need a certain amount of area to build in this zone. Grinding a variance, isn't that just simply throwing the rules in the dustbi…

It's not throwing the rules. Mean, the rules of the maybe correct me if I'm wrong, but there's a process to approve anything changing from the from the zone from the zoning. There's there's reasons, and there's the five factors that we've talked abou…

Well, I what's built into the typical zoning code is the concept of variances. It's it's in every community that has a zoning code. All have variances in this in order to allow community to have some flexibility that zoning doesn't become so rigid th…

And just just two observations with response to to counsel. One, I mean, the Croton code with respect to area variances is public. It's known. It's detailed. And it tasks this zoning appeals board with making a determination on those five factors. Ri…

As mentioned, the new addition and deck will match the existing setbacks to integrate with the existing building. The neighboring property on that side, 57 Sunset Drive, has a wide side setback of over 12 feet, so the impact of a side variance would …

your drawing. So so if you're on the survey, it is on the bottom portion of the survey. So on G 101, it's on the lower portion of that survey. But it's not showing, like, the one that's on the north and Right. The other side. Right. They I'd whatever…

and they don't have any problems. Do you have any idea when this, variance was granted?

Bernard Jaswick. I'm at 64 Sunset Drive. We're right across the street kinda catty corner from, Meredith and Eric. We also used to live at 61 Sunset Drive, which is the house to their right on the East side. We came in front of the board twenty years…

ahead. I have a clarifying question. So the view we're talking about is looking this way towards where the home has an 11 foot setback. Right? Yes. Yes. So the variance is for the other side. The variance is for the other side. The variance is for th…

The variance is for this side.

Mhmm. Yeah. So it's looking this way. Yes. But they're asking for a variance over here.

I'm saying they're asking for variance of build. Right. Mhmm. And I'm just saying that.

I guess, ultimately, my confusion is whether or not we grant this variance. They can still build that facade of the home as it is. Right? If we reject it, they have to pinch it in the other direction.

Like, they have to set it back farther in this direction if we don't if we don't approve the variance. Right. But there's nothing stopping them from building up to this line because it's already an 11 foot setback.

Okay. So the view That's that's the view. And then they're asking for a variance on this side. And a total variance. And a total variance. And a total variance. It'd be the total variance that we're talking at. It's prob yeah. Yeah.

Because they could if they pull that back, they could get the total variance. Right? The total variance is for 20 feet.

No. You you're looking for three variances here. I'm looking for three variances. Correct. Right. Side yard, required side yard, you're looking for a two foot three variance. Correct. Total side yard is 3.3.

you if you reduce so so we we'd still have the two variances. Right. Right. So We still have the the the 2.3 variance on the side yard and the lot width variance. Correct.

The lot width variance yeah. We'd still have because a lot width if we cut it back 3.3, the lot width

Thank you. I'm Steve Krisky. I live at 49 Sunset Drive, approximately, four houses down from the Quarrens, and from Bernie and Theresa as well. I have a bunch of comments for you. First of all, this is a very, very reasonable application. It's very t…

I think, ultimately, the thing that gets me is that the the overall, the two of the three variances are based on what is essentially being driven by the plan south building line. But the discussion the concern here was about the plan north building l…

Notably, the board pushed back on parking restrictions, requesting that the final law grant the Planning Board flexibility to increase or decrease parking requirements across all zoning districts. Village Attorney Joshua Subin cautioned that broader …

Village attorney Jeff noted that other municipalities sometimes cap parking reductions at 20 percent before requiring a variance. Joshua said he'd take that flexibility — and separately wants the board to launch a full parking code study before sever…

If they if the applicant wants to go lower than the floor, would that go to the zoning board? Variance. That'd be variance. Yeah. We've You could increase it, I guess, as you have the power to increase the requirements.

If you wanna decrease something, you should just make a recommendation and the portrait sees might take it up. Like, you know, if you're sending a lot of parking variances to the zoning board and it's become a problem for you guys, you should definit…

Yes. I think I I see the request. I mean, the just from my experience other other jurisdictions, even if if they were to allow a waiver of a certain parking requirement, usually, there's a limit on that waiver even in the most generous parking circum…

Thanks for the clarification, Joshua. And you and you understand it. Like, if we did do something like that, maybe it would be, like, a 20% type thing or something along those lines or, you know, that's what I've seen elsewhere where, you know, befor…

The applicant, Andrew Cortese, is seeking area variances to subdivide the 1.14-acre property at 52 Mount Airy into two lots — both falling short of the 25,000-square-foot minimum by roughly 281 square feet, or about 1 percent. His attorney, Corey Sal…