you're not going to have any. You're not showing on this that there's.
may i uh speak yes yes so i do have uh some you see where it says the sink and everything
espresso machine to the left of that before the uh as you can see storage there's a storage room
uh in the closet so i had storage there in which i keep a lot of items and then i also have some
cabinets uh across that i keep some uh cups and and stuff of the matter just a general note it
be helpful if the plan was to scale because i think right now i'm assuming that your uh your
tiles are one by twos but they're like things are not all the same size it also looks like the pan
the plan has been manipulated it's so it's also it looks misleading um and in the hand wash station
being behind the ice cream freesia makes it seem unlikely that a person's going to wash their hands
yeah i mean the the plans were uh not architecturally prepared so we we do understand that
it's a little a little bit uh confusing on some of the items uh mateo more that it's misleading
understood it's just misleading each of those tables are shown right now with like less than
six inches between them no chairs and they're only like depicted at about a foot and a half wide so
So, like, that's not what it would be in real space.
So it does make me wonder about egress, access to doorways, access to bathroom, access to the stairwell, the basement, to have, like, clear circulation path through here as well.
Both ice cream and coffee are things that tend to have long lines.
So I just question the flow, the way it's drawn.
Hey, and you guys thought I was rough.
uh mathel do you uh so so uh zen why don't yeah why don't we consider doing this why don't you
you know go back and relook at it figure out listen to what some people said and we'll give
you a uh a uh resumptive hearing and see if i can come up with a better plan okay
okay so i'm going to that's going to be 8 8 26 at 9 30 a.m thank you okay sure all right number six
26. mi2025 007 639 523 tasker street jennifer bitzilla is the attorney
hi i'm already a panelist for some reason so here you go here you go um you know you've
already been sworn just take state your name for the record sure jennifer bazidlo b-a-z-y-d-l-o
could you identify your client the relationship to the property sure my client is aurora jacob
and she is the property owner and i see that uh dickinson square gave you unanimous support and
council member squill also is a non-opposition our vice chair has a few questions good evening
have you submitted your documents and exhibits five days in advance of this hearing i did and
do you waive the reading of the refusal and simulate to its accuracy i do okay jennifer bring
us home okay all right so i'm going to try to keep this one also pretty short and simple this is i'll
just say this is through a series everybody says but go ahead this is the third time we're here
and this is actually already been approved but it expired so um with that in context um like i said
i'm here today representing aurora jacob she is the property owner also on the line i have their
design and build company G space with Angela and Michael. So let's just get into this a little bit
Um, so let's just get into this a little bit here. Um, I have the, you know, all the exhibits were, um, submitted. I won't go through them. Um, but so this is the property here. Uh, it's in ours. It's, it's a parcel. It's about, it's 1,342 square feet. And there's an existing three story structure on it.
here. I have the
um my client aurora obtained this home in 2010 when she purchased it from her siblings who had
inherited from her parents and the family has owned this property since the 1980s um like i said this
is our third time before the board on this project due to a series of unfortunate events um that you
know stuff happens okay so in 22 i'm just going to run through that briefly uh in 2020 in 2010
after the property was obtained, Aurora went ahead and applied for a zoning and use permit
for a three-family dwelling and an addition on the second and third floors in the rear of the
property. In 2011, that zoning variance was granted for both the use and the construction
of the addition. And then she went ahead and started that project and obtained a bunch of
of permits, as you can see here. Unfortunately, the contractors that were hired that first
time pulled permits began work and disappeared without finishing the job, but did take a
lot of her money. So she gathered up her money again, and in 2015 and 16, she hired another
contractor who started the project again, and again, did not finish the work. This is
not G-Space. This is not the current contractor, just to be very, very clear. So what I will
say is that all the prior work was done with permits and the structure itself is that we're
talking about is up we can see it in the back here this is the back structure i'll show you the plans
so in 2024 Aurora hired me knowing that our zoning permit for the use had expired
um and we came back here and there was a new zoning permit issued for the three-family dwelling
and the reason we did not at that time go ahead and ask for a zoning permit for
the rear yard length was because when i had looked at the permits for that addition it was marked
closed so i had assumed that and the contractors had assumed that that part of the work had been
finished and we didn't need to renew a variance for that. However, when they went to go apply
for the permits to finish up the project, Elle and I said, oh no, the contractors never
got the final sign off and you're going to need to get a new variance for the extension
in the back. So, like I said, the work is done, the permits were pulled, apparently
they just did not get the final inspection and that's where we are today so um let me just show
you the current state of the building oops sorry one second i'm on the wrong thing um
as you can see this this building is mostly together um these are some examples of the
units the additions already been fully built um and again this was all with permits with
electrical plumbing this is what it looked like before the project was started um so what we're
looking for is to kind of renew that 2011 permit 2010 2011 permit so that we can get those final
sign-offs and any other do any other additional work i think the uh smoke uh the uh fire suppression
system needs to be fully hooked up and get this building finally back into use um so let's just
see a couple more things here so here's the plan you can see here this is um let me just zoom in
because you can see here kind of where the addition was built on the back um so i think
things to point out here is that first of all even when the first time around the the rear yard was
not actually shortened at all there had been a smaller like a shorter structure all the way to
the line where this addition is now it was just that there was one section that needed to be
completely rebuilt and the other sections just had additional floors built over it because it
was that typical thing where you had three stories in the front and an older addition in the back
and so it was just building up on a footprint that was already there so this hasn't changed
the the rear yard length hasn't changed since this building was constructed in
the early 1900s, some, whenever it was, a long, long time ago, right? And we were just building
up. Like I said, and it's already there, if not for these contractors.
like i said and and it's already there uh if not for these contractors walking away it would have
been signed off on and this building would be occupied now um so but i did want to also say
that let's just go to the aerial photo this is not an uncommon rear yard you can see there's
lots of other properties on this block that go pretty far back onto the property line um
and I will also note that there is no refusal for occupied area because there is quite a
large side yard on this that's almost six feet wide it's like five foot nine inches so you have
a lot of open area still and there is an alleyway in the back here that's like reserved for that
we're not occupying. We had a meeting with Dickinson Square which is the same group that
we met with before, and they voted to, there is I guess 14 people in attendance, it was
a unanimous support, and also Aurora and the design build team had previous to this, went
out to reach out to the community, and we got 25 letters of support from near neighbors,
seven on the same block, and five from the block on the rear, and none of those letters
of support are from the same people that were at the community meeting. So we had pretty good
representation between the community meeting and this block and the letters of support
of people that are supporting this project. So just in summary, before I have my client come on
and adopt my testimony, you know, we're trying to really just finish up this project that was
first approved in 2011. The use was renewed in 2024. It was clearly some weird glitch that it
It was marked closed, but it wasn't closed.
So now we just need to go ahead and get the zoning variants for the existing edition that
was built with the 2011 permit to finalize the project and get these units back in operation.
So with that, I would ask Aurora to raise her hand and adopt my testimony.
please raise your virtual hand and wait to be sworn in
or jacob please raise your virtual hand and if you cannot find her you can if
there's either angela or michael dibucci you can have them raise their hand
thank you my client's a little um she's not as familiar with technology so she might have had
um miss bazidlow is angela is she one of the owners of the property because i only have aurora
jacob listed on the deed um she angela is the design professional so she can't be okay okay
yeah as a witness okay got it yeah thank you hello mike hi could you please state your name
and spell for the stenographer yes my name is angela di prima hyphen bucci that's a-n-g-e-l-a
di prima d-i-p-r-i-m-a hyphen b-u-c-c-i do you swear or affirm to tell the truth the whole truth
and nothing but the truth i do yes so proceed angela you heard my testimony um do you believe
uh what i described um as the the history of this property and the additions on this property is
accurate yes okay um and if i asked you all those questions you would have said basically what i
said correct yes all right that's i just wanted that to be on the record then if we can't get
our board to adopt at all all right questions from the board
questions from our attorney hillary emerson not at this time mr chair questions from the virtual
audience
planning commission maybe one with the planning commission the comprehensive plan recommends no
change in zoning at this location to the current rsa5 residential single family
the proposed addition was construction constructed under permit number 309036
the planning commission recommends that the board grant their requested variance for a rear yard
sat back mi2025-007-639-523 tasker street i vote yes with proviso certificate of occupancy to be
obtained yes michael johns my vote is yes with proviso sure i'll guess
My vote is yes, with proviso.
Cheryl Gaston, my vote is yes, with proviso.
Tanetta Graham, my vote is yes, with proviso.
Ryan McAdams, my vote is yes, with proviso.
Hi, Owen, my vote is yes, with proviso.
Thank you, counsel.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Is there anyone in the audience whose case has not been called?
Mr. Chair, I do not see any further hands.
Okay, thanks, everybody.
And I would tell you what, we're about 40 minutes ahead of schedule.
because he had a start in 650 or something like that the last one right
thanks everybody we we we did get through a lot of work