thank you good morning everyone my name is bill bergman and i will be chairing this morning's
meeting of the Zoning Board of Adjustment. With me is our Vice Chair, Tenetta Graham.
Present, Mr. Chairman.
Our Board Secretary, Cheryl L. Gaston.
Present, Mr. Chairman.
Our Board Member, Taya Nguyen. She should be here any minute. And our other Board Member,
Ryan McAdams.
Present, Mr. Chairman.
Also, here is our Board Attorney, Hillary Emerson, and our ZBA Director, Ian Haggerty.
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MI 2025 001-047-2006 Bellevue Street that case is continued until the I'm sorry that case is a
attorney moving party number number five
number five mi 2025 004 101 59 44 cala hill street that case is continued until
9 15 26 at 9 30 a.m and then number eight
and mr chair for um number eight i believe um we may have we've made a change that's a
continuous am i correct well i think it was a continuous rest i see mr kelly here mr kelly
are you here for beachwood street okay i can let him give an update on that
So, yeah, you can come on up. Yeah, you can call back one in and share.
So, MI 2028 001452 1114 North Beachwood Street. We're going to intend to continue that case. Am I correct, Hillary?
so we received a um let's bring on um it's either alan knockups or alex goldberg and
they're representing the appellant now um they had submitted a request for continuance but i
understand that the um the violation may be withdrawn by the city that's where i want to give
The violation may be withdrawn by the city. So I want to give Mr. Kelly a chance to speak with the record. And here comes Mr. Goldberg as well. Kelly, could you please state your name and spell it for the stenographer? Jim Kelly on behalf of the city, K. E. L. L. Y.
Okay, there you go. Kelly, K. E. L. L. Y.
Do you swear a friend to tell the truth, told the truth, nothing but the truth?
um council sure so so this violation has been closed uh by the city um i i understand um mr
goldberg's request was to continue the case until that shows in atlas it was closed on eclipse
yesterday um and shows that way i just it usually takes a day or two to hit the public facing side
um i i don't have an objection to the continuance but but it's closed well you just want to give it
date and then we'll pull we can let mr goldberg respond he's right there
alex goldberg alex goldberg alex g-o-l-d-b-e-r-g you swear or firm that tell the truth
the whole truth nothing but the truth i do mr goldberg how do you want to proceed with this
uh just as mr kelly stated um i think my client would feel more comfortable until it shows as
closed on the public facing records um so we're prepared to withdraw the appeal at a future date
but until then you know until then we'd like so this case is continued to 9 15 26 at 9 30 a.m
thank you thank you great
should we go to number one am i correct yep no not the one word number two right number two right
Yep. Number two. MI 2024-005-972-4532-Blankton Street. There's a Spanish interpreter for this case.
interpreter please no no no no no we're waiting for the interpreter
and that's why we have an interpreter
good morning your honor good morning members of the board good morning could you please state
your name and spell for the stenographer yes my name is leonel gillen l um spelled as an l-e-o
n-e-l gillen spelled g-u-i-l-l-e-n do you swear or affirm that you will interpret accurately
completely, and impartially from English to Spanish, and from Spanish to English.
I swear.
Okay. Could you please call the Elvina Ipena? Could you please? Elvin. No, Elvin Ipena.
Are you the owner? Elvin Ipena. Could you please call in Spanish for us?
Yes. El señor Elvin Ipena, ¿está presente?
All right. Please ask him, do you swear or affirm that tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth?
Muy bien, señor, levante su mano derecha. ¿Usted cura y afirma decir la verdad, toda la verdad y nada más que la verdad?
Your vice chair has a few questions.
Muy bien. Nuestro vice, nuestro vice encargado tiene unas cuantas preguntas.
Okay, perfect.
Good morning. Have you submitted your documents and exhibits five days in advance of this hearing?
Muy buenos días. ¿Ya ingresó sus documentos y sus exhibiciones cinco días previo a esta audiencia?
Eh, sí.
And, um, do you waive your reading of your refusal simply to its accuracy?
¿Y usted cede el rechazo de, de, cede a su rechazo simplemente para tener mayor precisión?
Perdón, nosotros vamos a leerlo, disculpe.
This application is for the erection of a covered terrace.
Esta aplicación es para la erección de una terraza cubierta.
Una adición de una planta, nada más.
Y para la legalización de una, de un, de un fence solamente de la parte de enfrente.
A una estructura ya erigida y separada de una sola unidad familiar.
Ok. Y, muy bien, y tiene ya un rechazo de la cerca y de la pared de que sea más de cuatro pies, ¿correcto?
and more than 50% opaque.
Y que sea más de 50% más opaco.
Also, the required buildings needs to set back.
Y también el edificio actual
necesita hacer un paso, ¿correcto?
That is no more than four feet in height.
Y que no tiene que ser más de cuatro pies de altura.
and no more than 50 percent open and no
tiene que ser más de 50 por ciento de
do you agree to those refusos
usted está de acuerdo perdón de 50
por ciento opec significa que usted
está de acuerdo con esos rechazos
o sea lo que
Sir, sir, sir, sit in the back, you've got to step back, we have an interpreter for that reason, we'll bring up...
Perdón, lo que no entiendo, verdad, este, todas las preguntas que me están haciendo, perdón, no entiendo todas las preguntas porque simplemente lo que yo estoy haciendo es un open porch en la parte de atrás, es un open porch, protegiendo la...
Okay, no, because what I do not understand are the questions that are being asked to me
because what I need to do is just an open porch in the back part.
All right.
So the open porch in the back is not a problem.
It's included in your refusal because it's part of the project, but the fence that you
already put up it needed zoning approval before it was put up so you have to get that now okay
entonces el el open porch que ya está en la parte de atrás que necesita en la parte de atrás ese no
es un problema eso ya está incluyó eso está incluido en el rechazo porque es parte del
proyecto pero eso no es problema pero la cerca que ya está puesta esa necesitaba una aprobación de
sonificación antes de que fuera elegido y por eso es que eso está por eso está acá en este momento
para para ver si lo puedo obtener ok perfecto sintiendo el problema de verdad mío tal vez yo
no pensé que necesitaba
algún permiso porque todos los vecinos
tienen lo mismo y yo
con algunos platiqué
y pregunté si necesitaba y me dijeron
que ninguno había sacado
recuerde
frases
por favor solo manténgalo
corto para que yo lo pueda interpretar
y usted continúa hablando después
no hay problema
okay so my my problem is that i did not think that i needed a permit because all the neighbors
have the same thing and i talked to them and they said they didn't get one but tell him tell him we
understand that and what we would want is for him to start his presentation and you work in the
computer why don't we start your presentation and tell us everything you have done and we'll go
through the photos and you can talk off of that okay muy bien entiendo todo lo que usted me está
diciendo perfecto y lo que queremos ahora es que comience con su presentación el que sea que va
a trabajar en la computadora va a ir pasando las fotos está bien y usted me irá hablando acerca de
esas fotos ok ok comience
Well, you have photos here too, am I correct?
Usted tiene fotografías up top, why don't we go, you have all the photos, Ian?
Usted tiene toda la fotografía, ¿verdad?
The photos, the photos that are, oh, okay, I see.
So I see the photos that are on the screen are the ones that you use.
Estas son algunas de las fotos que tiene de todos los vecinos alrededor.
Okay, so these are some of the photos that they have from all the neighbors surrounding.
they have from all the neighbors around you okay okay so there are all the other neighbors
that have things like that already is that okay entonces ya lo que me está diciendo que ya hay
vecinos que tienen todo esto también ellos verdad si la mayoría de vecinos tienen todas estas
bardas alrededor entonces yo por esa razón pues lo hice porque como es para la parte de atrás no
that's the interpreter okay
okay so yeah then most of the neighbors have these type of fences and that's why i did it
uh and and and the thing is that it's in the back it's not in the front and my kids go out
and play over there and they have a little bit of privacy okay all right um and does he have
any other photos ok tiene más fotografías y solamente es otra vez no hay un
practice ones
so in other words you saw everybody else had a fence like that you put a fence
up ok entonces usted dijo de todo el mundo tiene tiene unos cercos igual a
estos de yo voy a poner unos también en sí eso es lo que dijo ahora
that's the front of your house where you posted the appropriate
and it's right and that's the part in front of his house where he put the photograph
where they have the document correct yes yes okay
that's the entrance to the fence right is the entrance to the people could see in the rear
and it's the entrance to the circle right and the puso there also so that the people could see in the rear
uh yes that's the back part yeah
that's the rco y ese es el rc o correcto you want to the rcio meeting and everybody's in
favor of what you want to do ok y usted quería una reunión de rc y aquí sale que todo el mundo
está de acuerdo con todo lo que usted quería hacer correcto si ya sé que questions son de
board. Preguntas de la junta.
Questions are common.
Preguntas o comentario.
Did I see where is this fence?
It's in the river, you say?
¿En qué parte está esta cerca
en la parte de atrás?
Sí, esa está en la parte
de atrás, prácticamente de la
cocina, de la mitad de la cocina para atrás.
Yeah, so that's in the back part.
It's basically in half the kitchen
and then
it keeps going on, but it's in the back part.
And is that, like, is that opening, like,
for a driveway?
Is there a...
Y esa apertura que se ve, y como que ese portón que se ve,
ok, esa es para una, para que pase un carro,
o para qué es?
No, eso es, es que yo siempre,
esa, la cocina está en la parte de atrás,
y siempre entro por ahí, por la cocina,
casi no uso la puerta de enfrente,
yo siempre entro por la parte de atrás,
por la cocina, siempre...
Oh, no, ok.
okay that's that's because it's that's um that's where the kitchen is and i almost always enter
through the kitchen i almost never use the front door it's that that's why i used that that's why
i made that door okay so that other picture that i saw there wasn't a curve cut there okay