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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCook, DonnaAlbert J. Krupski, President James King, Vice-President Artie Foster Ken Poliwoda Peggy A. Dickerson Town Hall 53095 Route 25 P.O. Box 1179 Southold, New York 11971-0959 Telephone (631) 765-1892 Fax (631) 765-1366 BOARD OF TOWN TRUSTEES TOWN OF SOUTHOLD March 30, 2005 Donna Cook 6900 Main Bayview Road Southold, NY 11971 Re: 6900 MAIN BAYVIEW RD, SOUTHOLD Lot 78-6-9.2, 9.3 Dear Ms. Cook, The Board of Trustees is in receipt of your letter of January 27, 2005. The Trustees have inspected your property and have determined that it is not fresh water wetlands. There are no freshwater wetland indicator plant species on your property. The plan that you describe in your letter to drain the area has been approved by Trustee Artie Foster. Therefore, your property does not come under the jurisdiction of the Board of Trustees. We will send a copy of this letter to the Planning Department, Building Department, and Zoning Board of Appeals. Please contact this office with any further questions. Very Truly Yours, Albert J. Krupski President, Board of Trustees Cc: Zoning Board o f Appeals Southold Building Department Southold Planning Department AJK/hct Date: March 28, 2005 To~ From: Re: Ruth Oliva, Chair Zoning Board of Appeals Katherine and Neil Saccamano 6990 Main Bayview Road Southold, New York 11971 Cook Property Variance/Unmerge Application 6900 Main Bayview Road Southold, New York MAR 2 8 2005 Southold Town Board of Trustees I am writing to voice our objections to the proposed division of the Cook property. The current total area of the lot is 20,896 sq. fi. and is a grandfathered non-conforming lot size. By waiving the merger and granting a variance for the lot line changes you would now create two non-conforming lots in an already developed area. The purpose of this application of Ms. Cook I presume would be to produce a lot on which to build a home. This would entail putting in many cesspools in an already environmentally sensitive area. With the water table high in this area the impact of the new subdivided lot with a possible future home could result in our abutting property becoming flooded and or contaminated. Sincerely, Katherine Saccamano Neil Saccamano 6990 Main Bayview Road Southold, New York 11971 Phone: 765-5773 Cc: Town of Southold Town Planning Board Town of Sonthold Board of Trustees Town of Southold Building Department PLANNIi~G BOARD MEMBERS JERILYN B. WOOD[lOUSE Chair RICHARD CAGGL~/O WILLIAM J. CREMERS KENNETH L. EDWARDS MARTIN H. SIDOR Date: January 20, 2005 To: Ruth Oliva, Chair Zoning Board of Appeals From: Jerilyn Woodhouse, Chair Planning B,~ard PLANNING BOAHI) OFFICE TOWN OF SOUTHOLD MAILING ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1179 Southold, NY 11971 O~-PICE LOCATION: Town Hail Annex 54375 Stage Route 25 (cor. Main Rd. & Youngs Ave.) Southold, NY Telephone: 631 765-1938 Fax: 631 765-3136 JAN 2 0 2005 Southold lown Board of Trustees Re: Request for comments on Donna Cook Variance Application SCTM# 1000-78-6-9.2 & 9.3 Appeal # 5638 The Planning Board has reviewed the variance application for the above-referenced properties and offers the following comments and/or recommendations at this time: ',, I. The subject properties were merged in accordance with the merger provision of the Zoning Code of the Town of Southold (Section 100-25). The primary objective of the merger law is to bring nonconforming lots into compliance with the bulk schedule requirements of the Zoning Code. 2. The total area of the lot is 20,896 sq.ft., where 40,000 sq.ft, is the minimum required in the R-40 Zoning District. If the ZBA approves the waiver of merger and grants the variances for the lot line change, parcel 1 will be approximately 7,500 sq.ft, and parcel 2 will be approximately 13,500 sq.ft. 3. Planning staffconducted an inspection of the property to verify the presence of wetlands on the southern lot. A copy of the aerial photograph is attached which clearly shows a wetlands pocket covering a large portion of the southern lot. Once appropriate setbacks are applied, it is clear there is little, if any, buildable area on this property. Accordingly, the Planning Board finds that even if a waiver of merger is approved by the ZBA, it may be difficult to obtain permits to develop the lot. Construction of a single-family residence may require permits and/or approvals from the Town Trustees, the Suffolk County Department of Health Services and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. For the reasons stated above, the Planning Board recommends the ZBA coordinate review with the To,am Trustees to determine xvhether or not they have jurisdiction over the proposed project. Cc: Heather Tetrault, Environmental Technician Albert J. Krupski, President James King, Vice-President Artie Foster Ken Poliwoda Peggy A. Dickerson Town Hall 53095 Route 25 P.O. Box 1179 Southold, New York 11971-0959 Telephone (631) 765-1892 Fax (631) 765-1366 BOARD OF TOWN TRUSTEES TOWN OF SOUTHOLD January 12, 2005 Donna Cook 6900 Main Bayview Road Southold, NY 11971 Re: Lot 78-6-9.2, 9.3 Dear Ms. Cook, A recent site inspection of your property revealed the recent clearing of vegetation ~vithin the scrub-shrub xvetland on the rear of your property. This is to notify you that you are in violation of Chapter 97 of the Tox~m Code regarding Wetlands on the above referenced property. According to Chapter 97 any activity within 100' of a wetland requires a permit fi.om this office. Be advised, that there is to be no further clearing in or around the wetland/scrub- shrub area on your property without first obtaining a permit for the action. Any further activity within the wetland may result in a monetary fine up to $4000.00. Please contact this office if you have any questions regarding this notice. Very Truly Yours, Albert J. Krupslki · President, Board of Trustees AJK/hct HAMPTON BA y~, ~ Y~RK tf94~ I KEY MAP Town of Southold Board of Town Trustees PO Box 1179 Southold, NY 11971 I am writing to you concerning my property at 425 Private Road 12. I have an area in the rear of the property that now holds water when it rains or snows. At least once in 2004, when the rain was severe, this wet area became large enough to reach one neighbors house and extended over three neighboring properties. It dries completely when the weather allows. It became this severe about 2 years ago when a neighboring property was re-graded and a new house was built on it. Also, my front property slopes down from Main Bayview Road to this area in the rear. The highway department put a "lip" on the edge of Main Bayview Road to help with runoff. The corner of Main Bayview Road and Waterview Drive has had this same flooding problem for more than 10 years, when heavy rains cause standing water that covers most of the road. My property has mostly clay and compacted soil. This area was covered in poison ivy, evergreen trees, thorny wild rose bushes, apple trees, honeysuckle vines, some other long thick vines that grow under and over the ground, a couple of trees that I don't know the name of and some bushes that I also don't know the name of. Some of this vegetation was dead or choking from the vines and poison ivy. There is grass growing that gets cut during the summer. I have family video pictures from as long ago as 1994 that shows what was growing there before ! cleared it. I called local landscape and drainage companies about fixing this problem. They said I had to remove all the vines and vegetation to loosen up all the clay and packed soil. They would bring in gravel and sand to fill in the Iow areas and then come back to put top soil over everything. This will aerate the soil and give the water somewhere to go. I also had other suggestions from some neighbors about how to fix it. In March or so I started clearing out the property and finished by the end of November. I left the apple trees, some bushes, some evergreen trees and honeysuckle vines. I moved some of the exposed clay to another area of the property, leaving some indents in the ground that holds the water. This is where the gravel and sand will go. The top soil wilt level everything and bring the elevation back up to where it was and where it's supposed to be. In 2001 I applied for a building permit and in 2002 I applied for a variance. During this process I contacted different Southold Town Departments questioning whether there were any concerns with water that I would need to address. There wasn't any water in my yard, but I thought t~ problem with how near I was to the creek and the canal. problem with any wetlands, but I was made aware that m elevation zone. I was allowed the variance and building permit. Based on this information I have been doing work on my property without any concern for wetlands. Now in the middle of eliminating this problem, I have been told to stop or face large fines. I was notified that I may need a wetland permit from your office, but this has never been considered wetlands before. I consider this to be an annoying puddle that only recently became like this and needs to be fixed. I am asking you to please consider it the same so I can continue with what rve started. If your office does consider this to be wetlands it will create more than one hardship for me and it will continue to be a problem for some neighbors. Please consider this information and notify me of your decision so I can find out how to proceed with this. Thank you for your help with this matter. Sincerely, ~ j 6900 Main Bayview Road Southold, NY 11971 phone: 765-2956 cc: Town of Southold Town Planning Board ~own of Southold Zoning Board of Appeal~ ,own of Southold Building Department _~.~