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Home My WebLink About05/2025 ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS `ro� H Town Hall Annex, 54375 Route 25 P.O. Box 1179 a� Southold,New York 11971-0959 Fax(631)765-9064 Telephone(631)765-1809 e"L d/ TO: Denis Noncarrow, Town Clerk (for distribution to Supervisor Krupski and Town Board Members) FROM: Leslie Kanes Weisman, ZBA Chairperson/Department Head COMBINED MONTHLY DEPARTMENT HEAD AND NEW APPLICATIONS/FEES REPORT for: May, 2025 DATE: June 10, 2025 I. Activities of the Board/Accomplishments: Regular Meeting: Date: May 1, 2025 Call to Order: 9:09 a.m.Adjourned: 2:52 p.m. Public Hearings:Total: 9 Number of new applications heard: 8 Number of carryovers from previous hearings: 1 Number closed reserving decision to later date: 5 Number closed subject to receipt of additional information: 0 Number Withdrawn: 0 Number of Decisions Amended: 0 Number adjourned to another date: 4 Number of Resolutions passed: 17 Number of decisions made: 0 Number of decisions tabled: 0 Next Regular Meeting: June 5, 2025 Special Meetina: Date: May 15, 2025. Call to Order: 3:05 p.m.Adjourned: 5:51 p.m. Number of assigned draft findings discussed: 5 Number of decisions made: 5 Number hearings closed: 0 Number Withdrawn: 0 Number of adjourn to another date: 1 Number of decisions tabled: 0 Number of hearings re-opened: 1 Number of Resolutions passed: 15 ZBA Zoning Update Review At my invitation, at the ZBA Special Meeting on May 18, 2025,Planning Director Heather Lanza presented her PowerPoint zoning update overview to the members of the Board of Appeals. A discussion followed. In my own review of the draft code update,as a member of the Zoning Update Advisory Committee and ZBA Chairperson, I found four prior ZBA code interpretations, dating back to 2002,that had been addressed/codified: second story non-conformity requiring a"pyramid/sky plane"regulation; multiple uses and lot area in B and HB Zones;application of the bulk schedule on split zoned properties; permission to establish a"caretakes/employee dwelling unit"on commercial properties. H. Staff Activities Number of people assisted at the counter: 56 Hours spent assisting: 12 hours; 30 minutes (Assistance includes filling out new applications,mailings and postings, providing copies of decisions, FOIL requests and other materials,and general inquiries) Number of F.O.I.L. requests processed by staff: 15 111.New Applications and Fees Collected: May 2025 New Applications: 10 Fees Collected: $13,250.00 Year to Date Applications and Fees Collected in 2025: Total Applications: 32 Total Fees Collected: $$54,150.00 Number of Pending Applications in the ZBA Office as of May 31, 2025: 23 (complete applications that have been calendared for puhlic hearings) IV.Innovative Advanced Wastewater Treatment Systems Required as a Condition of ZBA Approval: Total for May 2025: 0 Year to Date: IA Systems required in 2025: 1 Since Condition Inception: (2018): 95 V. Spreadsheet of ZBA Statistics to Date(attached) VI.Meetings attended/initiated by ZBA Chairperson/Department Head in May,2025 ® 5/02/25 Zoning Update Advisory Committee(ZUAC)Design Subcommittee meeting • 5/06/25 Department Head meeting with Civil Service representatives • 5/09/25 Special Events Committee meeting ® 5/13/25 Town Board public hearing on proposed code changes to accessory apartments ® 5/20/25 Code Committee meeting re: irrigation and political signs ® 5/20/25 Draft zoning code update presentation for Southold Hamlet ® 5/21/25 ZUAC Design Subcommittee meeting re: "big house/gross floor area/sky plane legislation" ® 5/29/25 ATA Julie McGivney re: specific applications before the Board ® 5/29/25 Drinking Water Protection Program (DWSP2) Committee meeting ® 5/29/25 Zoning Code Update presentation with business owners via Zoom ® 5/31/25 Zoning Code update presentation for New Suffolk Hamlet Respee ,Ily submitted, Leslie Kanes,Weisman ZBA Chairperson/Department Head 2eBoard Appeals Sts for 2025 F � ca _ r Mare ril M � Jute r ��E f USt �e�tentber October November December Total - Public Hearings 12 8 8 9 9 Hearings Closed D 6 11 S 5 Hearings Adjourned/Reopen 3 6 2 4 _ CarryoverCloseo �� 2 - CarrvoverAdjourned 2 1 Decisions Made Granted 4 6 4 3 Denied _ 4 1 2 1 Alternative Relief Granted 1 —� or Denied,Grant In Fart 1 1 1 Overturn Decisions Tabled 1 1 1 „Interpretation Application Withdrawn lA Wastewater Septic 0 1 + O O _ F Breakdown of Applications By Typed Residential Area Variances 7 8 8 6 8 6 Ron Res.Area Variances 2 2 Use Variances 1 Special Exceptions 1 General _AccessoryApartments 1 1 Bed&Breakfast Code Interpret/Reversal — - Waiver of Merger/Lot/lot line/size/width/depth 1 1 1 Other/Signs/Fences 1 New Applications Received 4 g 4 5 10 32 Fees Collected(Municity) $6,000.00 $16,900.00 $8,000.00 $10,000.00 $13,250.00 $54,150.00