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Minutes. Architectural Review Board Meeting, October 5, 2006
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2 EASTCHESTER ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD MEETING OCTOBER 5, 2006 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 4
5 MINUTES OF THE 6 EASTCHESTER ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD MEETING 7
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10 HELD AT: Eastchester Town Hall 40 Mill Road 11 Eastchester, New York 10709 October 5, 2006 7:00 p.m. 12
13 BOARD MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE:
14 Rose Marie Brescia 15 Enda McIntyre Laura Raffiani 16 Maria Bonasia Fernando Papale 17
18 EASTCHESTER EMPLOYEES IN ATTENDANCE: 19
20 LOUIS REDA, Deputy Town Attorney 21 MARGARET UHLE, Director of Planning JAY KING, Building Inspector 22
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24 DINA M. MORGAN, REPORTER 25 COLONIAL ROAD 25 BRONXVILLE, NEW YORK 10708 (914) 469-6353
DINA M. MORGAN, REPORTER
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1 EASTCHESTER ARB MEETING - 10/5/06
2 Meeting called to order by Ms. Brescia. 3 Pledge of Allegiance. 4 Roll call conducted by Ms. Uhle: 5 Mr. Papale: Present. 6 Mr. McIntyre: Present. 7 Ms. Raffiani: Present. 8 Ms. Bonasia: Present. 9 Ms. Brescia: Makes a motion to approve 10 the minutes of the September 7th meeting.
11 Ms. Raffiani: Seconds motion.
12 (All aye.)
13 APPLICATION 06-13, 138 WOODRUFF AVENUE 14
15 Ms. Rivera: Rebecca Rivera, Joseph Crocco Architects representing applicant. 16 Explains they're trying to remove a garage door that has a transom above it and replace it with 17 double hung windows and transom to in fill where the garage door was. States brick veneer 18 will match brick veneer that's on building currently. States double hung windows will 19 also match what's upstairs on the second floor.
20 Ms. Raffiani: States drawing indicates existing door to remain, but the one that's in 21 the sketch looks a lot nicer and matches the transom windows over the windows. 22 Ms. Rivera: Asks if she means the front 23 door.
24 Ms. Raffiani: States yes.
25 Ms. Rivera: States they're not replacing the door.
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1 EASTCHESTER ARB MEETING - 10/5/06
2 Ms. Raffiani: Feels the way it's 3 sketched looks very nice because it matches the transom and the existing door does not. 4 Ms. Brescia: Feels door needs to be 5 replaced to match what they are doing.
6 Ms. Rivera: States they could do that.
7 Ms. Uhle: Asks if transom windows will align with each other. 8 Ms. Rivera: States yes. 9 Ms. Brescia: Asks if brick will match 10 the existing brick.
11 Ms. Rivera: Explains they have aged brick. 12 Ms. Brescia: Makes a motion to open the 13 public hearing.
14 Ms. Raffiani: Seconds motion.
15 (All aye.)
16 Mr. Bassano: John Bassano, 157 Woodruff Avenue. States he has a problem with the 17 zoning issue.
18 Ms. Brescia: Explains zoning is not in this board's purview. 19 Mr. Bassano: Asks if board has any 20 concerns with respect to the interior conversion. Explains this was a workshop. 21 Ms. Uhle: Explains the building 22 department would review the plans and a building permit is required and they consider 23 whether or not the design meets the building code with regard to egress issues and that type 24 of thing.
25 Mr. Bassano: Explains this building was a non-conforming use, there was an office on
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1 EASTCHESTER ARB MEETING - 10/5/06 the second floor and a workshop on the first 2 floor and now they want to convert it to a two family house. Explains that block is single 3 family homes. States he's part of the North Eastchester Civic Association and they have a 4 concern with that issue. Asks if they could make this look as nice as the rest of the 5 houses there keeping in mind this is a garage.
6 Ms. Rivera: Explains they're proposing to remove the garage door, in fill it with the 7 brick and match the existing. Shows plans.
8 Mr. Bassano: Asks if there are any plans to make the roof nicer. States adjoining 9 buildings have peak roofs and this looks like a box. Feels if they're doing an upgrade it 10 should be in character with the rest of the buildings keeping in mind it's a two family. 11 Mr. Sweeney: Frank Sweeney, 22 Lakeview 12 Avenue, trustee in North Eastchester Civic Association. States this application was 13 before Zoning Board in May seeking seven variances. Explains when that initial parcel 14 was done in 1999 and 2001 it was clearly stated that the Woodruff Avenue side of that property 15 would remain single family owner operated. Feels this is a change in position. States 16 they still strongly believe every other house on that street is a single family home 17 facility. States this was purchased by a developer who knew that the Woodruff Avenue 18 side of that project would remain single family owner occupied. States they are concerned with 19 parking. Feels this is a serious situation because this is setting a threshold of what's 20 happening here in town. States this doesn't even have close to the six thousand square feet 21 required for a multi-family home. Feels if this goes through with just replacing the 22 garage door with a couple of windows to meet the requirements of an upgrade to the property 23 the least they could do is architecturally make it similar to the other homes on the block. 24 Ms. Brescia: Makes a motion to close the 25 public hearing.
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1 EASTCHESTER ARB MEETING - 10/5/06 Ms. Raffiani: Seconds motion. 2 (All aye.) 3 Ms. Brescia: Explains this board cannot 4 do anything about variances.
5 Ms. Uhle: Explains she has spoken to both Mr. Sweeney and Mr. Bassano and 6 understands their concerns but wants everybody to know that this is something both the she and 7 the deputy town attorney have researched extensively and feel comfortable that no 8 variances are required. Explains this is a preexisting non-conforming building, the 9 applicant is not planning on doing any expansions to the building. States building as 10 it exists now is non-conforming as to use and applicant is minimizing that by occupying it 11 with a permitted use in that district.
12 Mr. McIntyre: Explains ARB was copied on some correspondence from other residents of 13 this neighborhood that conveyed their sentiments regarding the pros of what's being 14 proposed in this application. Feels what's being proposed aesthetically and 15 architecturally is an upgrade from the preexisting garage door. Explains with regard 16 to softening the roof lines that's not part of this application. Doesn't know how that could 17 be accomplished without doing pretty significant renovations to the existing 18 dwelling. Feels it's not totally different from the other properties there. Explains this 19 application specifically relates to the removal of the garage door and the replacement of that 20 door with a window that is somewhat aesthetically pleasing with the rest of this 21 dwelling.
22 Ms. Brescia: Feels if board starts changing the roof lines you're going to wind up 23 being much taller and it will draw more attention to it. Feels if you keep the 24 building lines the way they are it is a small building and that will keep it looking smaller. 25 Feels it will look more similar to these other buildings with the changes and the door change
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1 EASTCHESTER ARB MEETING - 10/5/06 to match what they've done. 2 Mr. McIntyre: Makes a motion to approve 3 Application 06-13 as presented and forward it to the Planning Board with the change to the 4 door and the transom above which is reflected on the drawing. 5 Ms. Brescia: Seconds motion. 6 (All aye.) 7
8 APPLICATION 06-82, 50 STEWART PLACE
9 Mr. Palera: Jim Palera, architect 10 representing Joseph Forgione. Explains there is a covered porch in the front and they will 11 take that down and start the addition in the same location going out a foot or two in the 12 front. States in the back they are going to be adding a two car garage where the driveway is 13 now and a family room and bedrooms above. States front of the building will be on Water 14 Street because of the setback requirements and they want to step the front of the building 15 down keeping the scale in relationship to the rest of the block. States they will be taking 16 off all the stucco because underneath the stucco is wood siding and they are dropping 17 grade back to original. States original house had a stone foundation and they are going to 18 expose that and add stone to tie it all in together. 19 Ms. Brescia: Asks to see samples. 20 Mr. Palera: Shows roof samples. Shows 21 siding samples. States siding will be a grayish tone. States trim boards and gutters 22 will be white. Shows sample of field stone. Explains it's a rough cut field stone. 23 Ms. Bonasia: Feels this is a nice 24 addition. Feels it works very well with the materials. 25 Ms. Uhle: States driveway can only be a
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1 EASTCHESTER ARB MEETING - 10/5/06 maximum of twenty feet wide and it says 2 twenty-five feet on the drawing.
3 Mr. Palera: States they could revise that. 4 Mr. Papale: Feels front and rear 5 elevations are well balanced but on the sides the major structures that create the fireplaces 6 something is off proportionately.
7 Mr. Palera: Asks if that's the right side elevation. 8 Mr. Papale: States it's right and left. 9 Feels one material for this structure makes it stand out too much. 10 Mr. Palera: States he could bring stone 11 all the way up.
12 Ms. Brescia: Feels the stone would look stunning. Feels stone would make it really 13 stand out. Feels on both side elevations they need more windows. Feels they could add a 14 little more detail and decorativeness.
15 Mr. Palera: Explains the thought process behind Stewart is you pick up noise from Route 16 22 and that is why they took windows out and brought them around the side. Explains they 17 were going to add landscaping.
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