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Planning Board Minutes, May 23, 2007
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2 EASTCHESTER PLANNING BOARD MEETING MAY 23, 2007 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 4
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11 HELD AT: Eastchester Town Hall 40 Mill Road 12 Eastchester, New York 10709 May 23, 2007 7:00 p.m. 13
14 BOARD MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE:
15 Robert Pulaski, Member 16 Angela Cascione, Member James Bonanno, Member 17
18 EASTCHESTER EMPLOYEES IN ATTENDANCE:
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20 LOUIS REDA, Deputy Town Attorney MARGARET UHLE, Director of Planning 21 JAY KING, Building Inspector KERI OULLETTE, Assistant Planner 22
23 DINA M. MORGAN, REPORTER 25 COLONIAL ROAD 24 BRONXVILLE, NEW YORK 10708 (914) 469-6353 25
DINA M. MORGAN, REPORTER
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2 Mr. Pulaski: Calls meeting to order. 3 Pledge of Allegiance. 4 Ms. Uhle: Calls roll: 5 Ms. Cascione: Present. 6 Mr. Pulaski: Present. 7 Mr. Bonanno: Present. 8 Ms. Uhle: Explains they will be starting 9 with the applications under new business first.
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11 APPLICATION 07-18, 195 LINCOLN PLACE
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13 Mr. Tomano: Richard Tomano, architect. States application is for a two story 14 alteration. Explains they built on the footprint of the existing building. Discusses 15 comments that were raised by the ARB. Discusses dormers. States they kept the circle 16 head window. States ARB made a recommendation to split the stone halfway up and halfway down. 17 Explains that didn't work out because of the bay window and the owner liked the stone the 18 way they show it.
19 Ms. Uhle: States ARB made five recommendations and three of those 20 recommendations Mr. Tomano was not able to accommodate. 21 Mr. Tomano: States ARB suggested adding 22 a window on the side of the living room. Explains he projected the box of the fireplace 23 so it wouldn't be a blank wall.
24 Mr. Bonanno: Makes a motion to open the public hearing on Application 07-18. 25 Ms. Cascione: Seconds motion.
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2 (All aye.) 3 (No comments.) 4 Mr. Bonanno: Makes a motion to close the 5 public hearing on Application 07-18.
6 Ms. Cascione: Seconds motion.
7 (All aye.)
8 Mr. Bonanno: Asks if driveway that's shown on the site plan is existing and is it 9 remaining.
10 Mr. Tomano: States yes.
11 Ms. Cascione: Discusses stone being just on the one side. Feels it looks like an 12 addition and doesn't flow. Asks if the are with the stone is further back than the front 13 of the house.
14 Mr. Tomano: States yes.
15 Ms. Cascione: Makes a motion to approve Application 07-18, 195 Lincoln Place. 16 Mr. Bonanno: Seconds motion. 17 (All aye.) 18
19 APPLICATION 07-34, 17 ANDERSON AVENUE 20
21 Ms. Uhle: Explains this is an 22 application for additions and alterations to an existing single family home. States 23 application was before the ARB and ARB had seven recommendations and applicant 24 accommodated all but two of those recommendations. Explains some windows that 25 are shown on an elevation are not reflected on the plan so that is a change that will be need
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1 EASTCHESTER PLANNING BOARD - 5/23/07 to be made in the drawings. The other 2 recommendation is windows be added to side elevations on the second floor in each of the 3 three bedrooms and applicant did not show those on the five drawings. States five remaining 4 recommendations were shown as revisions.
5 Mr. Natoli: Richard Natoli, applicant. States one of ARB's suggestions was to beef up 6 the portico, which they did. States ARB wanted some lighting and they put the lighting in. 7 States they removed the shutters from the side elevation and the rear. Explains in terms of 8 adding windows to the second floor elevation he needs all the wall space for beds and 9 furniture. Feels one window per bedroom would suffice. States all the other changes that 10 need to be made will be made.
11 Ms. Cascione: Asks if he's talking about all the bedrooms other than the master bedroom. 12 Mr. Natoli: States yes. Explains if he 13 puts two windows in the other bedrooms it will mess up the floor plan. 14 Ms. Cascione: Asks applicant to review 15 the materials and colors.
16 Mr. Natoli: States siding is off white vinyl siding, rustic roof, maroon wooden 17 shutters. States door will be a solid wood door maroon color. 18 Ms. Cascione: Asks if columns are white. 19 Mr. Natoli: States yes. 20 Ms. Cascione: Makes a motion to open the 21 public hearing on Application 07-34.
22 Mr. Bonanno: Seconds motion.
23 (All aye.)
24 (No comments.)
25 Ms. Cascione: Makes a motion to close the public hearing on Application 07-34.
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2 Mr. Bonanno: Seconds motion. 3 (All aye.) 4 Mr. Pulaski: Feels garage side elevation 5 would look a lot better if it had more windows.
6 Mr. Natoli: States he agrees. Explains at the ARB meeting his neighbor spoke against 7 them putting windows on the garage side for privacy reasons because his master bedroom is 8 there. Explains when they reviewed it they opted not to put the windows in to make the 9 neighborhood happy.
10 Mr. Bonanno: Asks if there is any feature they could put on the garage side to 11 break up the expanse of siding.
12 Mr. Natoli: States he has a kitchen window and they will be putting a hedge row 13 along the side, six to eight foot arborvitae. Explains his neighbor is about two feet over 14 his setback so the houses are really close on that side. Show sample of roof. 15 Ms. Cascione: Makes a motion to approve 16 Application 07-34.
17 Mr. Bonanno: Seconds motion.
18 (All aye.)
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20 APPLICATION 07-01, 16 ETON PLACE
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22 Mr. Pulaski: Explains since they are a board of three all board members have to vote 23 in favor of an application for it to pass.
24 Ms. Uhle: Explains with the Planning Board it would be considered no action and they 25 would come back at the next meeting.
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2 Mr. Davis: Robert Davis, attorney for 3 the applicant. Explains they were last before board on January 24th for conceptual sketch 4 plan review and board conducted a site visit on March 19th. States at the board's March 28th 5 meeting board requested cluster subdivision authority from the town board, which was 6 granted. Explains tonight they would like to complete the sketch plan review process and 7 declare this a minor subdivision, complete the SEQRA procedures, conduct a public hearing on 8 the two alternative subdivision plans to get direction from the board on which plan they 9 should proceed with. Explains property is located at the cul-de-sac of Eton Place in the 10 R-6 zoning district. States property is about three and a quarter acres, half of which is 11 buildable land and half of which is known as Lake Ida. Explains currently the property is 12 comprised of three tax lots, one is tax lot 22 that has an existing house on it and lot 48 and 13 lot 51 which includes not only the lake but some accessory structures. States currently 14 there is no obligation on anyone's part to maintain the lake but on the approval of the 15 subdivision the owners of the new lots would undertake that obligation. States town also 16 owns a parcel which borders the property to the east. Explains this is a unique property due 17 to a number of factors, it's historical use for industrial and mining purposes, the fact that a 18 significant portion of the property is comprised of the lake, as a result of the lake 19 the upland property is unusually shaped, existing house is on a non-conforming lot, the 20 property is at the end of a cul-de-sac and borders the town park. Explains project is a 21 four lot subdivision which should be construed as a minor subdivision under the code whereby 22 the three existing tax lots would be modified into four so there would be one additional lot. 23 States most likely the lake would be jointly owned common area. Feels all of these unique 24 facets call for creative planning which is why they are offering two alternative subdivision 25 plans, one is a conventional plan and a one is a cluster plan. States neither plan requires
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1 EASTCHESTER PLANNING BOARD - 5/23/07 any variances. Explains this cluster 2 subdivision does not include town houses or attached dwellings. States lots range from 3 eleven thousand square feet to thirty-five thousand square feet which far exceed the six 4 thousand minimum lot size requirement in the zone. Discusses the advantages of the cluster 5 plan. Explains driveway will be less intrusive under the cluster plan and better for the lake 6 and there would be no need for the town to maintain this particular driveway. States 7 houses will be located a bit further from the lake under the cluster plan, it allows one of 8 the houses to have lake frontage. Feels cluster plan provides a more aesthetically 9 pleasing lot layout.
10 Ms. Rivera: Rebecca Rivera, Joseph Crocco Architects. States property is three 11 and a quarter acres, half of it being the lake. Explains they are before board proposing two 12 options, the conventional layout and the cluster layout. Feels there are many positive 13 factors for going with the cluster layout. Explains with the conventional layout it uses 14 up more impervious surface. Shows proposed houses on the cluster plan. States under the 15 cluster plan they would also be able to pull the houses farther back from the lake. States 16 all of the lots exceed the requirement, they run from eleven thousand square feet to 17 thirty-five thousand square feet, which you could build a three thousand square foot home 18 on.
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