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Minutes, Zoning Board of Appeals, June 13, 2006
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2 STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER 3 TOWN OF EASTCHESTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 4
5 MINUTES OF THE 6 EASTCHESTER ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS
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9 HELD AT: Eastchester Town Hall 40 Mill Road 10 Eastchester, New York 10709 June 13, 2006 7:30 p.m. 11
12 B E F O R E:
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14 LOUIS SATRIALE, Member PAUL CUBITA, Member 15 FRED SALANITRO, Member PETER BORDUCCI, Member 16
17 P R E S E N T:
18 LOUIS REDA, Deputy Town Attorney 19 MARGARET UHLE, Director of Planning JAY KING, Building Inspector 20
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24 DINA M. MORGAN 43 CENTRAL DRIVE 25 BRONXVILLE, New York 10708 914-469-6353
DINA M. MORGAN, REPORTER
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2 THE CHAIRMAN: Good evening,
3 everybody. Welcome to the June 13th
4 meeting of the Zoning Board of Appeals.
5 Would everybody please stand for the
6 Pledge of Allegiance.
7 (Whereupon the Pledge of Allegiance
8 was said.)
9 THE CHAIRMAN: The first item of
10 business for the Board will be to approve
11 the minutes from our meeting on May 9th.
12 Is there a motion to approve those
13 minutes?
14 MR. SALANITRO: Make that motion.
15 THE CHAIRMAN: Moved by Mr.
16 Salanitro. Is there a second?
17 MR. CUBITA: Second.
18 THE CHAIRMAN: Second by Mr.
19 Cubita. All in favor.
20 (All aye.)
21 THE CHAIRMAN: The minutes are now
22 approved.
23 As we do each month, what I'll do
24 is run through the agenda. As everybody
25 in the audience can see, we have a Board
DINA M. MORGAN, REPORTER
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2 of four tonight. I believe that most, if
3 not all, of the applicants were advised
4 in advance that we would have a Board of
5 four tonight. What that means is if
6 you're an applicant and you decide to
7 proceed tonight and end up with a two/two
8 vote, that would be the equivalent of a
9 denial. You need three out of the four
10 sitting members to vote in favor of an
11 application to get an approval. If you
12 didn't get that message ahead of time and
13 decide now to ask for an adjournment,
14 that's perfectly fine. We
15 unfortunately -- well, fortunately for us
16 unfortunately for you we don't meet again
17 until September, so you need to factor
18 that in. But you certainly would have an
19 opportunity now to say I would prefer to
20 wait to have a full Board, because in
21 reality with a Board of four you already
22 have one no vote against you because
23 there's somebody not voting.
24 The reason we have a four member
25 Board, for those that don't know, is that
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2 our fifth member, Michael Cahalin, was
3 appointed to the Town Board just a few
4 weeks ago. For those of you that don't
5 know Mike or haven't seen Mike in action,
6 he was an extremely dedicated member of
7 our Board. He was very passionate about
8 what he did. He liked to express his
9 opinion and that was always very helpful
10 with respect to the application he spoke
11 about, because he would offer a
12 perspective that some of the other
13 members wouldn't have. He would say it
14 in a very forceful and passionate way and
15 I certainly and I'm sure the rest of the
16 Board members are going to miss Mike very
17 much and we certainly wish him well on
18 the Town Board. So, that's the situation
19 we confront tonight having a Board of
20 four.
21 If anybody would like to say
22 anything else about Mike, then I could go
23 on to the agenda.
24 MR. BORDUCCI: Just echo our
25 congratulations.
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2 THE CHAIRMAN: What I'll do now, as
3 we do each month, I'm going to run
4 through the agenda, and for people who
5 are here or watching at home there have
6 been a number of adjournments because of
7 the four member Board. For those of you
8 that are here tonight intending to go
9 forward, please let me know that you are
10 going to proceed and please let me know
11 that you are comfortable proceeding with
12 a four member Board. And again, if you
13 want an adjournment that's absolutely
14 fine, it's your right to hope that by
15 September we have a five person Board,
16 which I would expect we would.
17 The first item on tonight under old
18 business is Family and Community
19 Services. Ms. Cioci is here. Are you
20 comfortable with a four person Board?
21 MS. CIOCI: Yes.
22 THE CHAIRMAN: Family and Community
23 Services is going to proceed.
24 Second one under old business is 11
25 Hillary Way. Mr. Cotugno is here. Are
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2 you prepared to proceed with a four
3 person Board? He said yes.
4 The next one is also I believe Mr.
5 Cotugno, 106 Gaylor Road. Are you ready
6 to proceed on that one with a four person
7 Board? He said yes.
8 The next one was supposed to be 737
9 White Plains Road. For anybody
10 interested in that one, that one has been
11 adjourned. It will be on the agenda for
12 our meeting in September, which is the
13 second Tuesday of September and you will
14 not get a further notice for that
15 meeting, so you just need to follow the
16 agenda into September.
17 The next one on tonight is under
18 old business, 443 White Plains Road and
19 Mr. Crocco's office is here. You're
20 going to proceed with a four person
21 Board?
22 MS. RIVERA: Yes.
23 THE CHAIRMAN: Under new business
24 the first item is Classic Audi at 541
25 White Plains Road, Mr. Allocco's
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2 application. Are you going to proceed
3 with a four person Board?
4 MR. ALLOCCO: Yes.
5 THE CHAIRMAN: Mr. Allocco said he
6 is.
7 The next one is 193 Old Wilmot
8 Road, Mr. Cotugno. You'll proceed with a
9 four person Board? He said he will.
10 The next one is 17 Columbus Circle.
11 Mr. Cotugno, you'll proceed with a four
12 person Board?
13 MR. COTUGNO: Yes.
14 THE CHAIRMAN: Next one is 100
15 Stewart Avenue, Saint Luke's Church. Mr.
16 Cotugno, you'll proceed with a four
17 person Board?
18 MR. COTUGNO: Yes.
19 THE CHAIRMAN: Next one is 87
20 Waverly Avenue and the applicant says
21 she'll proceed with a four person Board.
22 Next one is 8 Scarsdale Avenue.
23 The applicant says they'll proceed with a
24 four person Board.
25 The final one for tonight is 478
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2 California Road, also Mr. Allocco, and
3 you're prepared to go with a four person
4 Board? He said he is going to go forward
5 on that.
6 The adjourned items tonight besides
7 the one I mentioned, 737 White Plains
8 Road, are: 138 Woodruff Avenue, 31
9 Stewart Place and 196 Oakland Avenue.
10 All of those have been adjourned until
11 September, and as I said before with
12 respect to 737 White Plains Road, you
13 will not receive another notice in the
14 mail about the public hearing for any of
15 those, they will just be carried onto the
16 September agenda without another mailing
17 going on. If you're interested in those
18 applications, you need to follow the
19 agenda and it's the second Tuesday in
20 September and we start at seven thirty.
21 I think that's all the
22 administrative things that need to be
23 accomplished. We're ready to go right
24 into the agenda.
25 First application under old
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