ZBA Hearing - November 3, 2021

Mr. Gia Gabetti, you can unmute yourself and wait for the chair.

Good afternoon, sir. Please spell your full name, and I'll swear you in.

A-N-T-H-O-N-Y-G-I-A-C-O-B-E-T-T-I.

For a firm to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth?

Yes.

Thank you. Mr. Clinton?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Jacquevetti, have you heard my testimony today?

Yes.

If you had the opportunity to testify, would you adopt my testimony as your own and as true and correct?

yes thank you anthony thank you any questions from the board no mr chairman no

what else like to testify in this case if so please raise your hand

i see no hands at this time chair thank you planning commission the city planning run bednar

property is indicated for residential on the city plan given to surround the use context

and the physical condition of property we recommend request advance be granted

thank you mi 2021-003521 706 cantrell street my vote is yes

confessor plaza my vote is yes thomas holliman my vote is yes james snell my vote is yes

you case number seven mi 2021-002434 821 welsh road this is a pro se case guy and heather porter

uh the greater busselton civic lead sent a letter of support

mr and or mrs porter if you're available ms porter is coming back in as a panelist now chair

you ms porter please spell your full name and i'll swear you in

heather porter h-e-a-t-h-e-r p-o-r-t-e-r and my husband's also here

i'm guy i'm sorry please go sir please please continue my name is guy quarter g-u-i-p-o-r-t-e-r

folks just where to affirm to tell the truth the whole truth nothing but the truth

yes okay okay uh please proceed with your uh application have you guys uh emailed an exhibit

packet with the required document proof of ownership proof of tax compliance copy of the

refusal or referral photos and plans five days prior to this hearing? Yes. And have you met with

the RCO and have a letter? Yes. Yes. Thank you. Please proceed. Sure. All right. I'll share my screen.

Okay. So this is a picture of our house here on the right, the stone house. This is our driveway

and you see a small single car garage here. We're asking to build a larger garage next to it.

Here's a little bit of a closer picture. You see where this little silver car is. This is where

we're proposing to build the additional garage. These are just pictures. This is the front of

These are just pictures. This is the front of our house. This is the picture of the zoning notice.

our house. This is the picture of the zoning notice.

Another one of the zoning notice. Close up of the zoning notice. This is our plot plan. So this is

our property. We moved into this home this past January, and we don't have enough storage for all

the things that we need to care for the property, such as a riding lawnmower and a snowblower and

all that kind of stuff. So we are proposing to build a garage that's 28 by 44. Zoning allows

for a garage that's 25 by 35, which means that we're three feet bigger on one side and nine

feet bigger on the other side. As you can see here in the plot plan, this area right here,

proposed garage, and this is where we would like to build that. It'll be next to the existing

stone car garage. We didn't want to knock the stone car garage down because it matches the

house and gives a lot of character to the home. The property is 0.89 acres. So based on this size,

were allowed to have 13,521 square feet of hard surface. And with the new garage,

we would have 2,923 square feet of hard surface. So consequently, we're significantly under

the allowable hard surface for about 10,000 square feet less. We have a letter from the RCO.

Everyone voted unanimously to support our build.

We are having the garage built by a company called Sheds Unlimited.

And this is our stamped engineered plans.

If we scroll down here a little bit, you'll see it's built to look like a sort of like a barn to sort of go along with the way that the house looks.

and it has a tiny little jut out just on one side just to give it a little bit of character.

There's no second floor in the house. It's just a house, sorry, in the garage. It's not a house.

It's just a full walkthrough garage. And then we were asked to put together the mean height of the

garage that we know that the mean height has to be less than 15 feet and it does fall under that.

And then I just have all the other materials that were requested for us to

be provided. So we have like the application for appeal and the certificate of tax clearance that

shows that we are clear. And then we just have some of the other things that we were asked to

include like the deed and such we also had a letter of support from our neighbors um based

on where the garage is at we are not going to be affecting anyone at all um we're it's basically in

the middle of our yard so um everybody basically uh supports us um so that that's our story okay

thank you thank you any questions from the board no mr chairman no anyone else like to testify in

this case please raise your hand chair we have alice you the bitch with her hand up

miss you the bitch you can unmute and wait for the chair good afternoon alice please identify

yourself for the record and i swear you in thank you chairman members of the board alice

judevich from councilman brian o'neill's office we're affirmed to tell the truth the whole truth

nothing but the truth i do thank you please proceed chairman members of the board the

councilman has no objection to the grounding of the variance at this location anyone else to

testify in this case there are no hands at this time chair thank you

MI 2021-002434.

Excuse me, sir.

Sorry about that. Planning Commission. Sorry.

Thank you. This is Ron Bednar, City Planning.

The property is indicated for residential on the city plan.

Given the physical circumstances of the site, we recommend the request to advance be granted.

I apologize for that. I looked at the time and I got a little confused.

MI 2021-002434.

821 Welsh Road, my vote is yes.

Confessor Plaza, yes.

Thomas Holliman, my vote is yes.

James Snell, my vote is yes.

Thank you.

This concludes the 3.30 list.

Is there anyone who feels that they've not been recognized?

is there anyone who feels that they've not been recognized please raise your hand

Please raise your hand.

i don't see any hands at this time chair thank you and this concludes the 3 30 list we're all

done for the day thank you again everyone uh especially the folks behind the scenes that

make all this happen and we'll see you next week any unfinished business tanya no no chair we all

All set. Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Stay safe. Take care.

Have a good evening, everyone.

Good night.

Have a good night.