the application the board will then typically ask questions of the applicants and then we will ask with their people who got it which is speak in support of the application and speak in opposition to the application we're trying to get of a new permits under section three point two for similar use retail sales and services to special permits under section one point five to alter non conforming structure first besides a back twenty five minimal allowed one point eight feet existing in proposed sorted out we have some additional kitchen plants we have shown more precisely the exact what's being demolished in the in the site survey the zoning kek list there have been some corrections and some more specificity but basically the design and the drawings are the same with some additional information related to  both the audio issues related to the h b ac units if they're you know more characteristic data on that as well as some more information on the lighting which was requested and  think that's it pretty much the drawings the design is stated that we have and the interim met with the restaurant review committee and they have very few concerns it's on the design and at the same  time we met with the with the fire captain about the interior trash room and again there are very few concerns about that as long as it's designed to code which of course it would be with that i'd like to introduce m the first one is is use and you know it was kind of hard to you know looking at the by a wide to really figure out what is the appropriate use for a hotel are so very something a use so you know arguably since we're really not altering any of the exterior of the property you know a special person might not even be necessary because the retail sales and service that doesn't alter more than five thousand square feet appears to be in a lot of use so i think you know that is the the the basis for our use relief we were here all of the of the current zogby of dimensional requirements except to the extent of the law coverage is actually going down from thirty seven percent to thirty four point five eight in the open space is going up from sixty three to sixty five point four two percent all the other dimensional setback requirements are staying the same and so far as i didn't see a small addition which is basically connecting require under the hotel use one space per unit plus one additional space for every eight units so under that former it appears a literal interpretation would require us to have  the occupancy rate is around seventy five percent and the parking in so far is alternating with staff or employees is most time people are up during the day in the times of cars or actually parked there i your point about the parking under section five point one point two whatever it is refers to a hotel but it is not referred to in the used tables at all and i think it just sort of seems to me that the analogy and if you look at other uses that are permitted as a matter of wind and then they'll be three x catering services daycare municipal recreation so it doesn't seem to be a use that would be any greater to arrive later easily so you know retail sales and services typically would be during the day or during the evening i mean i obviously have restaurants things in town as well but i think i'm not aware of any use that we've needed that would be in the building that will be open i mean there is there will be some put service but it's not open to the public is only open to gas if you want to put a little time limitation that and you know services could be provided but there's no other amenities in the you know nine thirty ten o'clock typically could there be somebody coming in very night yes so i see somebody travelling from across the country leaving late the new arriving after ten o'clock that's possible i g you know tuesday wednesday thursday the busy business days you know friday so to sunday if you have a family visiting so it is a combination of you know different needs and different times of the year bring like in the summer you're going to find tourism because what tourism in the summer three nights so that cuts the daily in and out you know two six seven you know assume that everybody moves out a day or two later they'll be one person there would be two people i'm sorry two people that would do the cleaning and so we need to move even if i give them  program room two people can more than enough to handle the cleaning of the room and that's assumed that we have for two people going into the cleaning you know and then doing the laundry and doing the prep for the next day so one person will commit six for rules is that will happen every day no i mean there is a possibility that there will be you know one person per car but in all likelihood there will be a few almost there that whether these public transportation represents management and biggest ration areas that are not open to the public the yellow which you can see is connected to the elevator and stairs is open to the public is common and that includes a fitness center a generation impacts the kotel or anticipated to be they were calculated based on the industry standard which is the institute of transportation engineers if you're not familiar with their trip generation and you will it is a summary of generator so we used to that we calculated the trip generation based on the rates that they find at hotel statistically and based on that as you see in the memorandum a much anticipated trip generation is one hundred sixty trips over combination of office and retail space generate significantly more especially as what matters that this location during those critical peak hours because i know obviously at that a chase an intersection is that is a concern especially during the critical peak traffic on the site so if you have any questions i think just basically the conclusion is that this proposed use is much less intensive for traffic lights than the previous  people who are going to speak in support of the application and i would ask if you're going to speak in support of the application if you go over there and stand at the podium and i believe signed in i hope by good you could just you know say your name let us know where you he was able to sell the property for its price i think he's investing a lot of money in this development i think he's likely to take very good care of it and given that it is a relatively quiet and light traffic usage of the side by support they are getting older and i'm not thrilled that they're driving at night by the time they hit waltham or you know it's mostly on one twenty eight they just go back to connecticut so i think having a hotel that's nearby would be great for people like that if you get a lot of use from people in town most of us don't have big cited i speculate that there's plenty of traffic after guests are staying somewhere else or having dinner in the neighborhood already that might get reduced if they're staying at the hotel if we're talking about family members of residents staying at this hotel i have as you know a strong interest in storm water management in our low lying precinct we lived down hill from this property and any improvement in open space i celebrate and support i'm excited about the allusions to history there used to be a school next door to the site and but the that was quite famous at the time and also there were  carriages that were manufactured at the site which would be a fine thing to highlight from a stark old perspective i write the buses in this area regularly there are very many buses that go back and forth to a wife which is the end of the red line which is point out that we have the uplands project named the voile and apparently on a schedule to open up as early as the summer they are required to put in traffic mitigate at intersections that would one is how will they keep in handlers from route sixty from staying at the hotel that's the first question that someone has a few people very concerned about that if he doesn't feel left with his occupancy i have no qualms on the landscaping i'm sure he will do a great job and it will look much better than what it is as for the traffic i'm very skeptical i'm tired of quotations and present everything just go there and see what it's like i think i agree with a previous speakers that the traffic won't be as bad so that's my comment that as a trash pickup i think it's a great idea to go and have it inside but my question is what time of day will it be picked up what time will there be deliveries because we had a problem across the street with timing at five am which i think is not a good idea you explain the ac in the windows in one of the questions was the noise factor and so would you measure it from the top aware every is supposed to and whatever they say please have them put it in writing i've been a town meeting member to warn when people get off and promised things and it doesn't happen make sure it's in writing i'm a very adamant about that one and as for the lighting in the i q patch and on the back to that  bright there was some of that lived in belmont i can think of his name he was a lightening expert and one thing he taught me was that you can put lightning in such a way that it doesn't wear out but it's like a king on this tour is something that's what we hotels and motels and everything you're going to have it open twenty four hours a day of twenty four hours a day ok how's that going to be handled i thought discreetly i know people come and people go and the other thing is i'm told there is a building called the belmont and it's on one hundred lexington street so you i have some expertise about this particular business and about the operator and about belmont business but i'd like to share with you people tonight long time realtor i've talked to lots of the people in town i've done a lot of transactions renovated buildings upgrading them and people in town say hey you know there's something wrong people don't think pro business we're pro business bring small businesses and clean up some building i did the deal at seventy concord out which is the murray sandler i saw for a long time and now it's a new mall but i can tell you other businesses want a hotel in town you need to be able to stay somewhere it's like a town that doesn't have a hotel is a second class town and this isn't a hundred rooms it's a small boutique hotel i think it's a great opportunity for belmont to sort of put their foot in the water with it and you couldn't have a better not let me say this mike is not a good operator sorry he's a great operator absolutely spectacular and i can say that from experience i've never in public i owned an eight room boutique hotel on the cape that i have a twenty five years it's a bed and breakfast and so i know something about occupancy and something of a kind of yes you get  think mike's place for a couple reasons one of which was when the church in waverly square was up for sale i brought a couple of selectmen from town sami baghdadi visited and robots visited angelo frenzy a form of selecting visited they all loved what mike was doing i put together a team we wanted to buy the church and have mi telling you he's a great operator in two thousand and ten in waltham he was getting more per night than the marriott on commonwealth avenue in newton the married to good brand commonwealth as a good address knows this business better than mike he's not going to spend three million dollars on this project maybe it's already in use fees and not be able to run the business and survive with the amount of parking that he's asked for he knows his business inside out with respect to the fear about people coming in and out also as i was again i can tell you from one of the hotel twenty five years we hardly ever get a guest in after midnight and people come in older people i guess i'm not one of them being over fifty percent is we like to go to bed early that in that neighborhood if we did a survey all we have to do is go to the houses that have college age kids because i have seven kids five went to college and i can tell you they go in and out of their houses  at late hours people in hotels don't nobody and on complains i don't think about kids going in and out of the houses after twelve o'clock one o'clock and and we get along fine with that might is a good operate that that won't thing back over the as a member just a few years ago we had a lot next to the president area and a lot was going to be used by the by the state to build a house they want to put the two famil parking spot next door they had a proposal just to add on more spaces the proposal was was rejected and just disjunction already had one propos size the building in the front of the and also from the distance from the back to space right now it's two feet and you're required twenty feet and they want to extend this as well and these are all additional things that you have to do you try to fit a circle into the two square if we if we would be sitting here if everything was supposed to be the way it should be now the other thing that concerns me is the fact that this building questions on the the existing bad will not be used it will be abandoned we don't need it fer any h b c system so the there's two existing bad wells on the building one facing p street and one facing the side back both of those are being abandoned then raised so they won't be used in the new construction the h b a c unit on the roof is kind of in the middle o and it's also screened it's a part of the elevator penthouse enclosure the screen the wall of that will extend the round the h p ac unit and we will get information with them without the screaming so that you guys can really understand what that does it's not only a visual screen it will be for audio as well to we're hoping we get approved here and then we're going to immediately you know finish the documentation to get a building permit we would love to start construction in the early summer and  be we expect that construction will probably take six to eight months but there are some long lead time items those got to be handled quickly and early the elevator being the largest but we expect it's going to go very efficient we it's going to there's not the beauty of this is that the construction is mostly inside one step little addition is framed almost all the construction work is inside the building the site work will be done very quickly that is not a big issue in terms of timing we expect that there's not going to be a tremendous amount of neighborhood impact on the consumer during the construction because there will be very little work outside but what will get you more specifics on that y nature we've had with the restaurant review committee and just you know there's no preparation for example that requires a hood or an answer system or anything like that this is really about bringing in trays of prepared foods putting them into shaping  and letting guests serve themselves during the day if somebody wanted to buy like for example a prepared pasta dish they could buy that they could microwave it in the cafe and eat it there or if they have the type of room that has a kitchenette there's a couple large ones that have a little bit kitchenette area you can take it up to your room and heat it up that's the extent of food there is no cooking the only cooking that might is and what we told the restaurant you can eat like scrambling eggs my advise is you know when we do construction if we the fortune have to get approval i'm more than happy to if it becomes an issue you know and if this concern we can start construction o'clock in the morning at the good of you know five thirty  stead of you know seven to three to use it so i'm open to that if that becomes a concern with the ma obviously the construction documents we're hoping that we would receive approval from the zoning board before we would do full construction documents we can get you more information on that from our mechanical engineer just like a gentleman asked about the laundry exhaust we will get information on that as well and asked the elevators hydraulic and yes yeah it's going to be and it's three stop basemen first and second and then mechanical on the lower floor yes in the i'm the basement yes travel agents and online you with so what are your demographics are you looking for people coming in for short term rentals people coming in maybe to the hospital some people coming for universities or just people transplant in and the calculation of the exposed foundation walls our basement story defining it by code as a full story we request to be able to renovate the attic without having to do extensive work for the basement our house is a typical colonial when you view it from the front or either side  one straight into the neighborhood however it is built into a slope which is why we can't perform to the calculation of the exposed foundation wall i think you'll find when you look at the plan it's very tastefully done  lexington where you've got to make mansions coming up and just people just overbuilding he always will be here also worried about the the parking there are a lot of cars at the top of ridges and road it's almost like going through a tunnel now at night because of people have so many kids with so many cars i don't know how many bedrooms they're going to be adding or anything and the fact that there are cars there all night they usually don't get ticketed of there's a deal out there but when we grew up in beaumont and no one parked on the street overnight you in regards to the parking issues you know even the proposed construction the house remains the single family with you know the extension is because our family unit is not going to be any potential for you know created this are going to be a kly by introducing the project and then we can get into the specifics of the three special permits the first time i have these neighborhood support petitions signed by so neighbors and then i also have hill so i think that that comes into play both of those say conditions come into play with this particular project i did bring some photographs and i have a scottie model which i think is really instrumental in explaining to you sort of the scope of what we are proposing so if we start with the study model this is the front of the health and go to the street and then this is the site on terrence which is uphill side of the house this is the house with the proposed addition so basically the proposed addition on the second floor is this little section of roof so it's taking the main gambro roof and extending it back by a few feet so much changing the volume never even though by the time this is done that that change happened the second aspect of model in so far as that the ten or a terrorist site is uphill so the in terms of the story power and the fact that it's two and a half story zoning but three story reality that's because the basement is counting as full story and that's primarily because of the foundation exposure on the back side and on the side opposite generally tired so the two friends it is on general terrace and i'm go to st the land is actually up very high on both of those and then i also have some photographs of the existing house if if anybody has questions on that would you like those  setback relative to cherry regarding this story the basement is calculated at forty seven point seven five percent below grade so it's a little bit shy of the sixty percent that would be required and that again as i mentioned is largely due to the fact of the sloping topography on that property and that the two sides opposite the streets are the size with more exposure and the other thing that i think is really worth noting is that because it's a gambrel the second floor has a fair amount of eve space for the public closets and things of that sort typed in under the eaves so even though it is counting as a full story the reality is that it has a lot of roof so when you look at it from the street that second floor almost looks sort of like a cape in that there's a lot of low room to it so it feels a lot lower to the site then than it might sound when you're kind of looking at the district numbers  so and then that the last point that i wanted to make in terms of height is that the dimensional height of the structure is twenty four point one feet and the required or i'm sorry the allowable is thirty six feet so it's significantly lower in terms of the dimensional it's eleven point nine feet lower in terms of height and the addition that we're adding is just taking that existing height and extending it we're not going any higher second thing is the live coverage we are proposing increasing the nonconformity from twenty five point three to twenty nine percent so that's a three hundred thirty one square foot addition or increase in the coverage and that three hundred thirty one square feet includes two hundred thirteen square feet of building footprint the remainder of that number is the landing and stairs that would lead up room and then and landing at stairs leading down to a basement access so again even though it's technically three hundred thirty one the amount of the actual building footprint is you know slightly less than that  a few minutes ago and so that is thirteen point two five feet from cherry terrace and we are proposing the first floor and they're proposing to build up above that so we would be maintaining that existing nonconformity and i also wanted to know relative to  that this is something that has come up here in the past on other corner properties if it were not a corner property then that thirteen and change would be conforming to a ten foot side yard this is the sort of secondary road with voting being the primary so  when had to throw that out there as well so i think that there was where my point let me know if you have any questions is that part of what's skewing that is that they do have a garage structure so their open space is actually really good and so the open space required is fifty percent and they with this addition would be at sixty nine point eight percent open space so in terms of the amount of land there you know almost twenty percent more than what would be required so i think that's really relevant just pointed out i think the most notable thing about that is that it's a corner lot and it's much more open if it were sandwiched between to have says it would i think would be significant change but since we live in the other corner i know it really provides more light in there and you know less of a much less crowded feeling you know these are additions some of which we have in our house and in some way come by doing a walk in closet that we would like t but it seems like a nice in a fairly modest plan and allows the house to really fit in with typical houses in our neighborhood so we support this and we hope you do too