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Minutes, Planning Board Meeting, April 26, 2006
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2 EASTCHESTER PLANNING BOARD MEETING APRIL 26, 2006 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 4
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6 MINUTES OF THE
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11 HELD AT: Eastchester Town Hall 40 Mill Road 12 Eastchester, New York 10709 April 26, 2006 7:00 p.m. 13
14 BOARD MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE:
15 Chairman Raymond DelSavio 16 Joseph Cermele, Member JoAnn Murphy, Member 17 Angela Cascione, Member
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19 EASTCHESTER EMPLOYEES IN ATTENDANCE:
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21 LOUIS REDA, Deputy Town Attorney MARGARET UHLE, Director of Planning 22 JAY KING, Building Inspector
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24 DINA M. MORGAN, REPORTER 43 CENTRAL DRIVE 25 BRONXVILLE, NEW YORK 10708 (914) 469-6353
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2 The Chairman: Calls meeting to order. 3 (Whereupon the Pledge of Allegiance was 4 said.)
5 Roll call conducted by Ms. Cascione:
6 Ms. Murphy: Present.
7 The Chairman: Present.
8 Ms. Cascione: Present. States Mr. Pulaski will not be attending tonight's meeting 9 and Mr. Cermele will be late. States Mr. King and Ms. Uhle are present and Mr. Reda will be 10 arriving shortly.
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12 APPLICATION 05-36, 29 ARLINGTON ROAD
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14 Ms. Uhle: States this is an application that received Planning Board approval for 15 additions and alterations to a single family home in September. States applicant is asking 16 for two modifications to the approved plans, one to permit vinyl siding rather than hardy 17 plank and another to permit four dormers rather than three that were approved. 18 Mr. Cotugno: John Cotugno. Shows 19 dormers. Explains now they're asking for four dormers. States they had originally asked for 20 hardy plank but applicant feels vinyl siding is a better choice. States siding is a cedar 21 shake design. Shows sample of siding.
22 Ms. Cascione: Makes a motion to open the public hearing on application 05-36. 23 Ms. Murphy: Seconds motion. 24 (All aye.) 25 (No comments.)
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2 Ms. Cascione: Makes a motion to close 3 the public hearing on Application 05-36.
4 Ms. Murphy: Seconds motion. 5 (All aye.) 6 The Chairman: States this Board and ARB 7 spent time on this application. States he remembers specifically discussing the hardy 8 plank.
9 Ms. Murphy: No questions.
10 Ms. Cascione: No questions.
11 Ms. Uhle: States the applicant should be aware since there's a three member Board it 12 would have to be a unanimous vote to pass.
13 Mr. Reda: States applicant could adjourn the application. Asks if they wish to proceed. 14 The Chairman: States he doesn't disagree 15 with the dormer choice.
16 Ms. Uhle: Ask if they want to wait until Mr. Cermele arrives. 17 Mr. Cotugno: States they will wait until 18 Mr. Cermele arrives.
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20 APPLICATION 06-01, 876 & 878 WHITE PLAINS ROAD
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22 Ms. Uhle: Asks if Mr. Salerno would like to proceed with a three member Board. 23 Mr. Salerno: States yes. States lots 24 presently front on White Plains Road and they are proposing a re-division so they front on 25 Homestead Avenue. States the variance was granted and they are before the Planning Board
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2 for a public hearing.
3 Ms. Murphy: Makes a motion to open the public hearing on Application 06-01. 4 Ms. Cascione: Seconds motion. 5 (All aye.) 6 (No comments.) 7 Ms. Murphy: Makes a motion to close the 8 public hearing on Application 06-01.
9 Ms. Cascione: Seconds motion.
10 (All aye.)
11 The Chairman: Makes a motion to approve Application 06-01 for the proposed two lot 12 re-division.
13 Ms. Cascione: Seconds motion.
14 (All aye.)
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16 APPLICATION 0604, 22 ALKAMONT AVENUE
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18 Ms. Uhle: Asks if Ms. Rivera would like to proceed with a three member Board. 19 Ms. Rivera: States yes. 20 Ms. Uhle: States application was 21 reviewed by the ARB. States ARB's comments were with regard to confirming the building 22 height and gross floor area with the building inspector. States applicant was asked to show 23 the location of and provide catalogue cut sheets of proposed light fixtures, which they 24 haven't selected yet so they did not provide that. States they were asked to show location 25 of AC condenser units on site plan and they show it at the rear. States they were asked
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2 to show a railing on the basement steps and they are showing a thirty-six inch handrail. 3 Ms. Rivera: States this is a new single 4 family residence in an R-5 district. States lot is oversized. States they are proposing a 5 residence with a stone finish along with brick. States the only issue they didn't address were 6 the light fixtures. Explains this far in advance they can't narrow down which light 7 fixtures they're going to go with or where they will be located. States they have located the 8 condensers in the rear yard.
9 The Chairman: Asks if there is screening around the condensers. 10 Ms. Rivera: States yes. States there 11 will be landscaping around it.
12 Ms. Cascione: States house looks larger than any other house in the neighborhood. Asks 13 if there were comments from the ARB or from the neighbors about the dimensions of the house. 14 Ms. Rivera: States neighbors wanted to 15 see how it was going to fit in with the surrounding neighborhood. Explains house is 16 pushed back a little further and screened so it's not visually noticeable. 17 Ms. Uhle: States ARB understood this is 18 permitted by zoning with regard to height and gross floor area. States ARB was concerned 19 with the overall massive appearance of the residence and the style compared to other homes 20 in that area which is why they asked the applicant to come back a second time. States 21 when the applicant came back they were able to indicate to the ARB the house would not appear 22 as massive as it does on the plans and ARB felt comfortable in referring it to the Planning 23 Board.
24 Ms. Rivera: States the materials are natural color. Explains it's not a bright red 25 brick.
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2 Ms. Uhle: States they reduced the size of the patio. 3 The Chairman: States whatever plan gets 4 submitted with the permit it needs to show the screening for the condenser. Makes a motion to 5 open the public hearing on Application 06-04.
6 Ms. Murphy: Seconds motion.
7 (All aye.)
8 (No comments.)
9 The Chairman: Makes a motion to close the public hearing on Application 06-04. 10 Ms. Cascione: Seconds motion. 11 (All aye.) 12 The Chairman: States he has no comments 13 other than the plan that gets submitted to the building department must show the condensers 14 and the landscaping.
15 Ms. Cascione: Makes a motion to approve Application 06-04. 16 Ms. Murphy: Seconds motion. 17 (All aye.) 18
19 APPLICATION 06-18, 46 WATER STREET 20
21 The Chairman: States Mr. Cermele 22 arrived.
23 Ms. Uhle: States application received preliminary review by ARB for the construction 24 of a new single family home. States this application appeared before ARB on two 25 different occasions and comments were they recommended four over one windows on all the
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2 windows on all elevations, which are provided except the windows in the tower are a little 3 different. States ARB asked for additional landscape screening on right side of the front 4 yard, which they did provided a row of seven to eight foot arborvitae in that area. States ARB 5 asked the applicant to provide a streetscape elevation to the Planning Board which was 6 included in the package.
7 Ms. Rivera: States this is a single family home in an R-5 zone on an oversized lot. 8 States lot is very deep and gets wider at the back. States exterior finishes are stucco 9 along with the stone which is a neutral color. States house is pushed back quite a bit from 10 the street. States new trees are being planted. Indicates they put additional 11 landscaping along the right-hand side.
12 Ms. Cascione: Asks if there were comments by neighbors at the ARB meeting. 13 Ms. Rivera: States no neighbors. 14 Ms. Uhle: States there were no neighbors 15 that appeared before the ARB meeting. Explains ARB was concerned with the size of the 16 structure and overall massiveness. States ARB asked applicant to set the house back further 17 on the property, which they did. States ARB asked for some trees in the lawn area in front 18 of the house.
19 Ms. Rivera: Shows location of trees.
20 Ms. Uhle: Asks Board to look at configuration of driveway. 21 Ms. Cascione: Makes a motion to open the 22 public hearing on Application 06-18, 46 Water Street. 23 Mr. Cermele: Seconds motion. 24 Ms. Marsh: Renee Marsh, 40 Water Street. 25 States she has major concerns with this house. Explains this is a quiet old street in town
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2 with a lot of old houses. Feels this house is totally out of character and scale with the 3 neighborhood. States her house is sixteen hundred square feet, this is five thousand. 4 States a concern with the setback this house will tower over her back yard disturbing the 5 privacy in her back yard. Feels this is totally out of keeping with what the 6 neighborhood is.
7 Mr. O'Leary: William O'Leary, 40 Water Street. States he objects on the same grounds. 8 Feels house is completely out of keeping with the neighborhood. Explains this is a quiet 9 little old middle class neighborhood with modest little quaint houses, one of which was 10 ripped down to make room for this. Explains they clear cut this yard taking out every tree 11 and bush except for a few trees around the back fence. Asks what the point of the ARB is if 12 not to look at a structure that's proposed to be built as to whether or not it's going to be 13 in keeping with the rest of the neighborhood. Feels having a mc mansion like this in the 14 middle of this neighborhood is totally out of character. Cannot imagine how the ARB or 15 Planning Board could see it as a fit in this neighborhood. 16 Ms. Cascione: Explains Board is 17 constrained by the zoning law which had been changed to prevent mc mansions, which are large 18 houses on small lots. States this is not a small lot, this is a huge lot. 19 Mr. O'Leary: Feels the structure should 20 be in keeping with the rest of the neighborhood. States this is a five thousand 21 square foot castle in the middle of a middle class neighborhood taking privacy away from the 22 people in the neighborhood. Doesn't know how the ARB could have given its approval. States 23 he fails to see how this is a fair process.
24 The Chairman: States this was properly noticed. |