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Home My WebLink About1973-02-10 0 R A F T C 0 P Y t o GROTON ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS PUBLIC HEARING Held in Groton Town Hall Tuesday , February 20 , 1973 7 * 30 - 7 : 50 P . M . ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS MEMBERS : OTHERS : J . W&go , Chairman* H . Dow - Town Supervisor Richard Bell* G . Totman - Chairman Town George Lawrence* Planning Board Gordon Hoy* D . Payne - Member Town Planning Laura Volpicelli Board * Dana Snell - Zoning Enforcement Officer Leonard Adams* Gordon Adams* J . Bell - Secretary* Denotes those present . J . WArgo : I will call this hearing to order and will start by reading the Notice of Public Hearing which was published in the Journal and Courier on February 7 , 1973 . (Mr . WArgo read the Notice aloud , a copy of which is ( attached and made a part of these minutes . ) J . Wj6irgo : 0 . K . Mr . Adams , would you like to tell us why you request a variance ? G . Adams : What I lack is four feet of having road frontage I need to get a building permit and I bought the land before this ordinance went into effect through my father and I would like to see if I could get a variance on it . That ' s what it boils down to . J . W*go : Dana , do you have anything to say ? D . Snell : No , you raised a question about the trailer , - -his brother ' s G . Adams : The trailer is gone , - -no longer there . R . Bell : Is it going to stay , - - the one there on in ? G . Adams : I ' ll probably get rid of it when I get the house built . - 1 - J . WArgo : Is this definite ? G . Adams : What difference does it make ? J . [Argo : According to the zoning ordinance 30 , 000 sq . ft . for each single dwelling and you have 43 , 700 and this makes I t - - - G . Adams : I ' ll say that it will be moved . J . W�*go : 0 . K . This is what - - this throws a different light on the whole thing because we can ' t run two ways on it . G . Adams : Actually there were two dwellings there anyways . J . WPrgo0 You ' re doing something different there now . G . Adams : They were there before you passed this thing . Seems the house would be more appealing than the trailer would be . J . WArgo : A mobile home is treated the same as a regular home . G . Totman : I think , Gordon , what the problem is , - - according to the way the ordinance is written up , - - is that what was there when the ordinance was made became a non- conforming use and any non - conforming use was legal as long as it was unchanged to another non- conforming use . As I understand it there sre 2 trailers on the lot - - G . Adams : No , just one . G . Totman : So it would be non - conforming according to the road frontage -only way to change that would be to remove the trailer and then you are only asking for 4 ft . G . Adams : I won ' t move it until I get the house built and then I ' ll do it . R . Bell : Was the foundation there before the zoning ordinance was put in ? G . Adams : The foundation was started in , I would say , 1965 and just finished it up here last summer . That ' s all I did . I don ' t know how many years you have driven by and seen mounds of dirt up there . I think you ' ll find there has been quite a mound of dirt there for quite a few years . J . WArgo : Yes , it looks that way . Does anybody else have anything to say ? G . Hoy : Hoe far is it from the road ? R . Bell : He ' s back far enough from it . J . WArgo : Just the 4 ft . G . Hoy : Is the foundation in the middle of the lot according to the other regulations ? 2 - G . Adams : Where is the picture ? J . Wgkgo : 180 ft . back from the center of the road . R . Bell : Gordon , you are out far enough as far as your side measure - ments go ? G . Adams : Oh , yeah . G . Hoy : Is there a garage designed into this house ? G . Adams : The garage is down underneath it . J . WAgo : There ' s a building out back . G . Adams : That ' s my garage , - -hobby truck out in back . J . Wkgo : Does anybody else have anything to say ? R . Bell : Only thing I was wondering is how would you stipulate that in writing , - - that the trailer does go ? J . WArgo : It will be in the minutes . G . Totman : Are you presently living in the mobile home that is there now? G . Adams : Yes . G . Totman : Is this the one that sits way out in back , - - a red trailer ? L . Adams : That ' s my other sons . G . Totman : I drove by there tonight but I was trying to get a bearing on it so saw one trailer out in back . J . Wkrgo : Does anybody else have anything more to bring up ? G . Hoy : How close is the house on other side to their line ? Any idea , - -will there be anything crowding in there at all ? G . Adams : He ' s about 10 ft . from his line and I ' m 38 ft . from his line . J . WArgo : Side line is 8 ft . - - lots of room to spare . R . Bell : Are you going to stipulate the length of time before the trailer has to go out ? J . Whrgo : This , I don ' t think is our perogative , G . Adams : I said when I get the house built , it will be removed . Probably take me two years to build the house . J . WArgo : 0 . K , G . Totman : Wouldn ' t that come up when he applies for the building permit if this variance is granted , then when he gets it done accord - - 3 - G . Totman : ing to the provisions of the variance he will have to get an occupancy permit , isn ' t that right ? D . Snell : Yes . G . Adams : I intend to move in before I move the trailer out though . G . Totman : It would be funny if you didn ' t . D . Payne : When did you start building the foundation , - - just recently ? G . Adams : The foundation part of it was started sometime this fall but the digging was started in 1965 . D . Payne : I mean actually building . G . Adams : The actual building started this fall , D . Payne : When did you apply for a building permit ? G . Adams : I didn ' t , - -Mr . Snell called me up and told me I had to have one . I never realized I had to have one . J . Whrgo : Did you read the Public Notice in this paper ? G . Adams : No , I was in the hospital at the time it came out and my father and mother told me about it . J . W)rgo : 0 . K . Are there any other comments or questions ? If not we ' ll close the hearing and - - D . Snell : Do you want to take a vote on it . J . WArgo : What time is it ? H . Dow : It ' s about a quarter of eight . J . W*go : 0 . K . I think providing it ' s stipulated that the trailer does come out we don ' t see any question why we should deny the variance . D . Payne : Has this been approved by the Health Department for the septic system? G . Adams : It has an existing system that was there when I moved into the lot . G . Totman : Isn ' t it a County Health Law that you have to - - G . Adams : My house will have the same number of bedrooms as the trailer - - J . WArgo : Doesn ' t this tMUM precede this situation though? D . Payne : I think the only way the Health Department knows is when the building permit is given . G . Totman : I think you might check with them , Mr . Adams , to be on the safe side . There requirements are 150 ft . too but the soil test base is their main concern . - 4 - I G . Adams : Don ' t they go by so many sq . ft . G . Totman : No , their ' s is 150 ft . road frontage , too . This ordinance was based on what the County requirements are . D . Snell : They are over us , - -we can give the permit but they might turn it down . G . Totman : I think if you approve it , it would be dependent on their approval , too . G . Hoy : I make a motion that the variance be granted . G . Lawrence : I second the motion . J . WArgo : We ' ll take a roll call , - Mr . Hoy ? G . Hoy : Yes . J . WArgo : Mr . Bell , R . Bell : Yes . J . WArgo0 Mr . Lawrence ? G . Lawrence : Yes . J . [Argo : I also vote yes , the motion is carried unanimously , that we grant Mr . Adams his variance . G . Totman : You are passing this on the basis there will be one dwelling unit on the lot ? J . WArgo : Yes . H . Dow : Did he guarantee to take the trailer out when the house is up ? J . WArgo0 Yes , it ' s in the minutes . G . Adams : So what do I do on the septic business ? R . Bell : Get in touch with Mr . Donahue of the Public Health Department , G . Adams : So what do I do now ? D . Snell : We ' ll give you a permit , - - I ' ll mail it to you . G . Totman : You get a permit now and then when the house is build you get an occupancy permit . Respectfully submitted , Josephine Bell - 5 -