will have two more funny board members joining us momentarily because we need for folks book a minimum four volts to vote on a special permit i'm going to begin in the interest and making his appearance all happened notice of plenty of notice a public hearing by the planning board on application for a special permit case number seventeen dash three notices here by giving that up at the belmont twenty one will hold a public hearing on tuesday october third two thousand and seventeen at and i'm here tonight representing my client jim problem from fifty pro bridge he's wanted to say a few words just about his family and about his property and i can walk you through the details of the project thank you thank you for hearing our case tonight i live at fifty trowbridge street with my wife and two kids we've lived in town for seventeen years and we bought the house in two thousand and four we've lived in the house for thirteen years and we would like to replace our deck that's in the back it's it needs repair and instead of repairing it we'd like to replace it with something slightly larger so that we can all sit outside and enjoy an evening dinner with a grill and our family that's really all i have to say i would appreciate your support tonight too to increase the size of our deck think we're trying to reuse utilize the main structure of the deck the floorboards are worn in splintering the railings are in the same shape so we want to try to use the structure where our currently exists and try to not carve out as much of the yard as would be if you have to shift the whole deck over and rebuild it after looking at numerous options the best expansion to accommodate the chairs tables grill and other plantings that the family uses is the one is the configuration that you're looking at now there's currently a landscape fence that runs the length of the property from front to back that is pretty much none of the neighbors can see where the deck currently sets the neighbors that can the immediate a better we have a center of a support from both the long term notice of public hearing by the planning board an application for a special permit case number seventeen dash fourteen notices here by given of the belmont planning board will hold a public hearing on tuesday october third two thousand and seventeen at seven pm the board of selectmen is meeting room upstairs our daughter and son in law and granddaughter live we lived downstairs what we would like to do with this house is keep it as close to its original plan as possible so rather than make any major new footprint we are just extending back the original sun room and you are just extending the sun room back so we face a feel that this a really very on abstruse of way to get some additional kitchen into our house without doing anything really extreme also you'll notice that our house sits on the corner so it abuts no property and so it would not at all be offensive to anyone in our neighborhood and i did go around to the neighborhood and spent many hours talking to people in the neighborhood and everyone is all for it as far as i can see so this would also enhance not only the house but i think the community in the neighborhood and with that it would really we would do a lot of better landscaping more native landscaping more in tune with how people are landscaping now so i think all in all it would be a vast improvement to the house for us for the community what what i think is before but it's a nice solution i have to sort of zoning concerns one has to do with the patio which is a great idea and a great placement for the garage but it looks to me like you're going to be have the misfortune of living on a corner and that means you have to front step back and i know that's three pretty well and getting to fourteen two on that side down there we're going to push pretty far toward the street relative to th i guess the other thing that i would know and rocky indicated there are some emissions and certainly when you put in this edition you'll be removing some shrubbery that's currently there and so in a landscape plan  and cambridge come out to give us some ideas so i do plan to do some of them you know some coverage that will kind of mask from the street and things like that and so i do have some ideas in my head with that and i plan to use pemberton to help me with that and there is a list in the packet of the different plantings i'm thinking of so any others yes yes i've just become a citizen scientists from malvern cemetery so i have real concerns about trees and i do have some ideas about some trees and where they should go and how they should be placed  but i want to get a landscaper such as mark from farmer tend to help me with that because i'm not an expert but when i've gone through this before in pennsylvania and trust me i really care about nature and yard and trees very very very  s comparable house but it is not by any means the largest the average is twenty three hundred so again it's a neighborhood where houses have been over the years extended a bill to accommodate ou able to do in addition to my house it was about eight hundred square feet about ten years ago my office is about twenty five hundred twenty four hundred square feet and i saw the presentation where and town meeting we decided to limit this particular edition is not of that nature at all i believe the roof line is going to go up as it is but it's going to go up two feet but we unfortunately on stanley road have had some very large additions maybe those were about fifteen years ago and then right at the end of lorimer road we have some very large structures this one that will directly impact me i will not be comfortable during the time period of construction i'm not burning to have all those trucks because we don't have that big a street and when i did my addition it was inconvenient for my neighbors but i speak on in support of this edition from as much as i've understood and our neighbors had us over and we got to walk around and see the plans and talk about the different spaces and how the outside would change so i just think that it in keeping with the character of our neighborhood much more so than the challenges that we're addressing your neighborhood this edition is is in the spirit of of the bylaws to be consistent with that nature of the neighborhood and to be a beautiful addition i know there's been some discussion about the quantitative metrics and all of that kind of stuff in and i do think while you know you're taking more things into account that there are things that perhaps in the early stages of the implementation of this by law that we're learning and it if there is a change that you think would be appropriate then then maybe we should that this is consistent with the neighborhood and so if there's an implementation that we need to make a town meeting to change any kind of language or improve the metrics then i would encourage you you know closer we years anyone can bring it up  meeting in the spring but today i'd say we're fully into port i'm two houses away from susanna and david's house i would be impacted as well so i am in support of it i think this and it will be a beautiful addition to our n town meeting member precinct three and also a neighbor of the highs i had a chance to go over to their house this past sunday and look at all their plans i was sort of new to see is that what they were going to do but i'm a planner and so a neighbor of the highs i've been in kind of gardens for about thirteen years now and i'm fully in support of their addition as well i want you to know that they've been fully transparent in this process they've gone around the entire neighborhood they literally went door to door showing their plants answering questions they had the open house this sunday they showed us their plants it's well within the character of our neighborhood and i think it w your move this up or whoever did without notice notify any of the other neighbors no one has heard about the sixty five foot of seventy foot with the pending one being able to expand your house or if you don't just for this reason other things have happened in the past that have affected the neighborhood an awful lot more than what they want to do they have no problem on the street and not going to be visible by the street of what they're doing if you if you want to keep the second coming from you but i need to ask you to go to the microphone the what has my inclination is based on the support of the neighbors i think we need to recognize that this is a difference neighborhood zone i have not tried to follow the the logic all the way through of taking a photo or two off the roof but i think the fact that that we have gotten one hundred percent favorable comments from the neighborhood is such a different from what we had when we were dealing with with with the with the original neighborhood that drove this where where everybody had a very strong idea of what was going wrong and how it was affecting every other immediate neighbor and here we have unanimity where the people are saying where the neighborhood the neighbors are saying apply town meeting voted on so i think the work working group ought to be able to find a solution relatively quickly to reach agreement on on approving this application interesting and slightly different dynamic from what we saw where there's a proposal to add in something in the basement or on the third we were with the exterior stairs and i think it makes it a little bit more complicated to think  i have a colonial and i wish i knew the numbers but what they have is a k and kate houses in general and in my neighborhood i think there are shorter so i sort of doubt the one next door is also colonial so i think when we went when we do it they are total height is actually going to be not even as high as the one next door so we're where we have a lot of different things and the other thing is that if we're doing one hundred ten percent addition and that means there house something like thirteen hundred square feet there might be one or two other houses in our neighborhood that fit that by driving around i mean eight hundred square feet is three quarters of a neighborhood and you go down stanley and they used to be the smaller homes which are mostly more like fourteen fifteen hundred square feet and a lot of them have been an add on to so i don't know how many of them are there two hundred square feet but i think it's about two or three other twenty four out of one hundred twenty that we've got brookside avenue town meeting member precinct three i guess i just want to reiterate you know what we talked about earlier the neighbors that are here are fully in support of this and going back to mr pinkerton's statement which he's the person who actually authored this by law and as i heard when he spoke actually said this actually is in keeping with the bylaws and i think i heard everybody else on this board speak in favor of this you seem to be the minority and i guess the thing i'm a little frustrated about just knowing that they came to my door in april and i signed this petition and i heard that the signatures are all the question which i think is kind of ridiculous i'm sorry just i'm frustrated with for the highs because they're frustrated with the process and i think this is taking too long and i think it's a little crazy that you would need to have a working group when everybody else except for hughes in support of this i think should make a decision tonight not bother me one bit so i just want to put that out there that we have you need us in our neighborhood that not everything is conforming not everything's about and that's part of what's nice about it and i think we do you really when there was no detail so that was something that we would need a bit more clarification on and a couple of the rooms look like if there was four rooms to look like if they changed the of the location of the closet that if we were able to get some agreement o