Township of Edison Zoning Board of Adjustment Regular Meeting Minutes May 31, 2016 Chairperson Feterik called the meeting of the Zoning Board of Adjustment to order at 7:00 PM. Adequate notice of this meeting, as required by the Open Public Meetings Act of 1975, has been provided by the Annual Notice published in The Home News & Tribune on November 18, 2015 and has been posted in the Main Lobby of the Municipal Complex on January 4, 2016. The Chair called for the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. Roll Call Board Members present were Feterik, Shah, Dave, Skibar, Reeves, Taglianetti and Comba. Also present were Messers Thomas Abode, attorney, H. Bignell, M. Carr, S. Lombardi and L. Buckley. Absent was Board Member: Errico Bob Smith, attorney for JSM at Inman, Case # Z 11-2016, would like to adjourn his application for this hearing. They will come back on June 21, 2016 and will re-notice their application. Old Business: Cases # Z 33-2015. Paul Buglioli, 3 Reynolds Court, Edison, NJ 08820. Section 37-63.1(13). Bulk variance sought to construct an in-ground pool in the rear yard of an existing single family home. Maximum lot coverage by buildings and pavement required 40%, proposed, 49.5%. Affected property is located in the RBB Zone at 3 Reynolds Court, designated as Block # 412.C, Lot # 17.08 on the Edison Township Tax Map. All paperwork is in order. Paul Buglioli, the applicant, is sworn in to testify on his own behalf. Mr. Bulgioli states that he is back here again because he went over his lot coverage and his engineer prepared drainage plans as per the Township Engineer. Upon review, the plans are satisfactory in relation to the Township Ordinance. New Business: Case # Z 27-2016. Rohit Patil, 29 Marlin Avenue East, Edison, NJ 08820. Section 37-63.1(7). Bulk variance sought to construct a rear yard deck with a partial roof for use with an existing single family home. Rear yard setback required 30 feet, proposed, 26 feet. Affected property is located in the RBB Zone at 29 Marlin Avenue East, designated as Block # 607, Lot # 46 on the Edison Township Tax Map. All paperwork is in order. Rohit Patil, the applicant, is sworn in to testify on his own behalf. Mr. Patil states that he is building a deck will a roof that is a few feet more than is allowed. The deck will be professionally done. Ms. Shah states that it is not going to be closed; the applicant agrees. He did receive a copy of the engineer s report and will comply. 1
Case # Z 29-2016. Kaushik Deb, 12 Sherman Boulevard, Edison, NJ 08820. Section 37-63.1(5). Bulk variance sought to construct a two-story rear yard addition with deck. Minimum side yard setback required 15 feet, proposed, 7 feet. Affected property is located in the RA Zone at 12 Sherman Boulevard, designated as Block # 548-A, Lot # 6.A on the Edison Township Tax Map. All paperwork is in order. Kaushik Deb, the applicant, is sworn in to testify on his own behalf. Mr. Deb states that he would like extend his existing single family home to do a two story addition on the existing home along with the deck. He has an existing deck that he would like to take down and extend the home putting in two rooms; one in the upstairs and one downstairs along with the deck. Ms. Feterik asks if the deck he wants to put on will be on the side of the new addition; yes it is; the deck will be open. Mr. Dave asks if the addition is 19 x 36. It will be 24 x 19 for the addition and the deck will be 12 x 17. The deck will be located on the second floor; there will not be a deck on the first floor. The deck that is there currently is located on the second floor. Mr. Comba asks if Mr. Deb receive a copy of the engineer s report; he did receive a copy of the engineer s report and will comply. Mr. Lombardi states that he needs a side yard addition because the home is existing and they will be just extending out from the existing home. and feels this would not be a detriment to the neighborhood. Motion seconded by Mr. Comba. AYES: Feterik. Dave, Case # Z 24-2016. Srinivasan Chandrasekaran, 1102 Merrywood Drive, Edison, NJ 08817. Section 37-63.1(13). Bulk variance sought for walkway and fire-pit for a single family home. Maximum impervious coverage required 30%, proposed, 35 %. Affected property is located in the RA Zone at 36 Hillwood Avenue, designated as Block # 1011, Lot # 7 on the Edison Township Tax Map. All paperwork is in order. Srinivasan Chandrasekaran, the applicant, is sworn in to testify on his own behalf. Mr. Chandrasekaran states that he would to go with additional lot coverage in three locations. One is the driveway, he has built the driveway as the Board can see in the pictures submitted. It is very difficult to make a right turn safely so he has requested widening of the driveway with four pillars added to make it look pretty. He has added a firepit and has proposed sidewalks to connect the front yard to the backyard. Chairperson Feterik states that she was at the property and basically what he wants to do is make a walkway from the street, passed the driveway. Mr. Chandrasekaran states that the walkway on one side is connecting the front walkway to the back; on the other side, there are steps from where the garage is leading to the backyard so he would like to have a walkway connecting those steps to the backyard. The walkways will be on both sides of the home connecting to the backyard. 2
Mr. Reeves asks if he spoke with the neighbor about paving to the property line. He did not, but his wife did speak to her and she was ok with it. Mr. Chandrasakaran did receive a copy of the engineer s report and will comply. He also states that he already has a site improvement permit for the new home and has two drywell systems in place already; one in the front and one in the back. Mr. Taglianetti asks about the round circle in the backyard; it s the fire-pit, it is 201 square feet, round. and feels this would not be a detriment to the neighborhood. Motion seconded by Mr. Reeves. AYES: Feterik, Dave, Case # Z 31-2016. Gloria Gomero, 60 Melbourne Street, Edison, NJ 08817. Section 37-63.1(13). Bulk variance sought for as-built impervious lot coverage. Maximum lot coverage required 40 %, proposed, 54.84 %. Affected property is located in the RB Zone at 60 Melbourne Street, designated as Block # 357, Lot # s 28, 29 & 30 on the Edison Township Tax Map. All paperwork is in order. Gloria Gomero, the applicant, is sworn in to testify on her own behalf. Andrew Wu, Engineer, is sworn in to testify. Ms. Gomero states that she over paved her driveway. Madam Chair asks if she received a copy of the Engineer s report about the storm water management. The above ground pool is included in the lot coverage calculations; Mr. Lombardi states that that should be removed from percentage. The coverage will not be at 51.5 %. Mr. Dave would like to know if Ms. Gomero would be willing to remove some of the sidewalk and he would like to know how much. Mr. Lombardi states that he believes that they received an engineering permit for the new garage and a straight driveway but then they made a circular driveway and exceeded coverage. Mr Bacurto, her husband, is sworn in to testify. He states that the contractor did the work and didn t know if the contractor got the permits. Mr. Lombardi states that he believes a permit was issued for the garage and at the time was compliant. The garage on the original plan was from the street straight to the garage; not to the extent of what is there now. The patio and walkways were already there. The paver driveway and horseshoe drive were new. Mr. Dave asks if they have a final CO for the garage. Mr. Lombardi states that he believes there is not; that is how this came about and that is why they had to come in front of the Board. The Board would like the applicants to reduce the impervious coverage on the lot and come back to the Board. They will be heard again on July 19, 2016-No further notice required. Case # Z 30-2016. Michael Kruimer, 33 Parkerson Road, Edison, NJ 08817. Section 37-63.1(4)(5)(6). Bulk variances sought to construct a second level addition and roof over front porch. Front yard setback required 25 feet, proposed, 20.65 feet. Minimum side yard setback required 6 feet, proposed 4.26 feet. Combined side yard setbacks required 18 feet, proposed, 12.46 feet. Affected property is located in the RB Zone at 33 Parkerson Road, designated as Block # 1121, Lot # 21 on the Edison Township Tax Map. All paperwork is in order. Michael Kruimer, the applicant, is sworn in to testify on his own behalf. He states that they had a variance for an addition over 30 years ago and went 12 feet to the side and they did a dormer out of the back. Their daughter and grandkids are moving in with them so they would like a dormer out the front of the house. They would like to do a front porch with a roof. His wife was hit by a car 23 years ago and is in a wheelchair; she always wanted to have a front porch to sit on. Chairperson Feterik asked if they received a copy of the engineer s report; they have and will comply. She also asks if there will be any additional entrances/exits to get upstairs; everything will have to go through the home. Mr. Kruimer states that when they built the dormer 32 years ago they added a full bath and laundry area with a 10 x 14 deck off of the back. The laundry is now downstairs, but there is an exit out of the back. He was a volunteer fireman so he knows about egress and likes that deck up there for that 3
reason. Chairperson Feterik states that their concern (The Board) is that this home doesn t become a two-family down the line. Mr. Kruimer states that he has no plans of this house becoming that. This is a third generation home, his mother lived there, they live there and now his daughter. The front porch will be open not enclosed. Case # Z 32-2016. A. Ferraro Construction, LLC, 53 King Street, Edison, NJ 08820. Section 37-63.1(2)(3)(10)(16). Bulk and use variances sought to construct a new single family home on an undersized lot. Lot area required 10,000 square feet, existing, 7,500 square feet. Lot width required 85 feet, existing, 75 feet. Maximum lot coverage required 20 %, proposed, 20.8 %. Maximum floor area ratio required.37, proposed,.396. Affected property is located in the RBB Zone at 20 Cody Avenue, designated as Block # 545.C, Lot # s 5, 6 & 7 on the Edison Township Tax Map. All paperwork is in order. Joseph Bonk, attorney, is here to represent the applicant. Mr. Bonk states this is an application for property that is at 20 Cody Avenue is Edison, it is in a RBB Zone. This is a 7500 square foot lot and the ordinance requires 10,000 square feet in this zone; 75 frontage existing, it is required 85 feet. Mr. Abhishek Chaurishi, the contract purchaser, is here to testify. They will also be going for maximum lot coverage and maximum floor area ration. Mr. Fletcher is also here to testify. Mr. Chaurishi is sworn in to testify. He states that there is an old house that needs to be demolished and a new house needs to be constructed on the lot. He would like to put bay windows over the garage, the living room will have a ceiling height of 11 feet. Mr. Bonk asks what is the price range for this home going to be; Mr. Chaurishi states that the contract price for the home is $727,000 for the new home. Mr. Dave asks if the applicant will be living in the new house; he states yes. They will be putting in new foundation for the home; there will be a new footprint. Mr. Paul Fletcher is sworn in to testify as a Professional Planner and Engineer. Mr. Fletcher states that he prepared the plans for the application; there are four variances requested. Mr. Fletcher states that the property lots 5,6 & 7 on block 545.C is located in the RBB zone. The existing lot size is 7500 square feet where 10,000 is required in the zone. Lot width is 75 feet where 85 feet is required; those are two existing conditions. They are requesting two additional variances to accommodate the design house on the property. They are only at 27.6% for total impervious where 40% is allowable. The other variance is floor area ratio; they are only 2% over. Mr. Fletcher states that the home, excluding the garage, is a little over 2500 square feet. It is not an overuse of the property. Mr. Fletcher states that he did map out the area and there are a number of other properties similar in size, 7500 square feet, there are also some 50 x 100 properties. He didn t do a detailed percentage count but he did prepare a colored exhibit. Mr. Bonk would like it marked as A-1. Mr. Bonk asks Mr. Fletcher to explain what A-1 is. Mr. Fletcher states that it is a copy of the Edison Township Tax Map with the subject property highlighted in blue. It is drawn to scale and two radius perimeters are drawn in red, a 200 and a 300 radius. Within those areas he has highlighted in yellow the substandard lots with regards to the RBB Zone. The Board reviews a copy of A-1. The property to the left is a conforming lot 100 x 100; the property to the right is 75 in width and substandard in depth. Mr. Fletcher mentions those two points to point out that there is no available property on either side to enlarge the size of this subject property to make it more conforming. Mr. Bonk states that based on this map, does Mr. Fletcher agree that the lot and area variances requested if granted would permit construction on these premises, premises which would be consistent with existing neighborhood pattern of development; Mr. Fletcher agrees. They are not seeking any side yard, front yard or rear yard variances. In Mr. Fletcher s opinion, it would not have a negative impact on the neighborhood or the public 4
good. It would not have a negative effect on the Master Plan or the surrounding property owners. They received a copy of the engineer s report and will comply. Resolutions to be Adopted: Case No. Applicant Denied/Granted/Date Z 65-045/05 Betterview Homes One year Ext. of Time Acceptance of Minutes: None Miscellaneous: None A motion was made by Mr. Comba to approve the above resolutions; motion seconded by Ms. Shah. AYES: Feterik, Shah, Dave, Skibar, Reeves, Taglianetti and Comba. NAYS: None A motion was made by Mr. Comba to adjourn the meeting; motion seconded by Mr. Taglianetti. AYES: Feterik, Shah, Dave, Skibar, Reeves, Taglianetti and Comba. NAYS: None The meeting was adjourned at 8:10 pm. Minutes were taken during the meeting by Laura A. Buckley, Secretary. 5