place for the media the board of appeals of the city of holland we are here to respond to applications for construction zoning variances and or special exceptions housing in dangerous structures this board must try to interpret each application as it relates to city ordinances the sport is not empowered to rezone or take any action that could be considered result variances must meet for crucial tests in order to be granted those of you who are here with for a variance have already answered questions about test on your application we'll be asking you about those answers again tonight this is the procedure we file we have you come to the microphone to speak and state your name and address we will hear the applicant first and anyone supporting the application th anyone in opposition to it typically we'll hold a public hearing on an application and then deliberate and decide on the application before moving on to the next ever cation you are welcome to stay for the deliberations but there is no opportunity for  if you like not to stay for our deliberation decision you can call the city clerk's office after eight thirty tomorrow morning to learn the results we hear applications typically in the following order construction zone in housing in danger structures z john and kim shea i'm opening up the public hearing and because there was a request for the withdrawal of the application i would like to make that a part of record to withdraw that could we have the clerk r of property located at twenty one east thirteenth street are requesting a special exception for the construction of an addition along with an existing set back of four feet along each property line the board is authorized to grant such exception if certain conditions are found to exist thank you you know again open up the public hearing and no education was withdrawn we did get in a request to with written request to withdraw the application ok thank you the next with regard to unfinished business could you please read that application i'm sorry doing other instrument is you want to open the public hearing on the first one applicant is there anyone that wants to speak in support of their vocation that was withdrawn in opposition to it and if not i'm going to get a motion  the post application was removed if you please read the next application with regard to the unfinished business variance or interpretation from the zoning ordinance and the housing property maintenance code to allow seven and related persons to continue to reside in two six four thirteen is only an ordinance and housing property maintenance code ordinance limits the number to four or up to six under certain circumstances thank you i'd like to open the public hearing and there was a memo or quest to the city council to the trucking police speak to that we did receive legal opinion mammal from our city attorney stating that we had no additional business with this application the business is completed in finished so we just need to remove that application from the table and accept the request to withdraw thank you i would like to request a motion to remove the application from the table moving on to the public hearing for the dangerous structures can you please read their petition or the motion that was submitted by the city for the first infrastructure we're going to read them all in one ok the at following application applicants fail to complete repairs as ordered by dangerous structures hearing officer this is the second hearing has hired by m c l one two five down by three nine charles owen property at fifty two west nineteenth central think you will begin with the first one with the charles on at fifty two west nineteenth street is there anyone audience would like to appeal the motion that was supplied by open up for deliberation and or motion by the board actually said you have a staff report on this i do i can give you a little bit of information about this place and be helpful the public hearing was held in front of the dangerous structures hearing office officer on january twenty second where he did declare the structure dangerous in order to repairs since the homeowner did not make the repairs he has asked this board to review and not pulled his decision allowing additional opportunity for a homeowner our neighbors to speak either in favor or opposition of upholding the order thank you very much the photo on th this one shows missing side in some deterioration around the windows and this is some deterioration of the roof and that has continued around the rest of the structure ok thank you very much motion to uphold passes for charles over the fifty second west nineteenth street the next danger structure is to assure winchester in saif el of fifty four east fourteenth street before getting the staff report i'm going to open the public hearing is there anyone that would like to speak on behalf of the city of  cindy can you give us a staff report please on this this property i also want to in front of the dangerous junctures hearing officer for a public hearing on january twenty two he did declare it a dangerous structure and allowed a certain amount of time for repairs since the repairs were not made he says this board to review another holder's decision determining that this is a dangerous structure you have a photo that shows just one of the many violent crimes at their property and you can see the windows are completely rotting out and probably fall at any time thank you very much does the board everything they need to make a motion and make a motion to uphold motion third item on the agenda is referred to morales and you on the morello's of one eighty seven west twenty fifth street i'm going to open the public hearing first is there anyone that would like to oppose the motion made by the city around today one that yes please come to the microphone and state your name and address for the record and feel free to make any any comments for my name is john timmer alison my husband and i are the owners of his home that car had yes we actually before i think this photo was taken i think it was the previous year we had intended on having somebody fix it will mean we bought the materials we have and they're not drive away you know i did time it wasn't their bad but the person who was going to fix it for me had a heart attack and you know we didn't get anybody else who could do it at that price that he was going to do it so so we waited and then we thought well in this rain will do it you know we'll try it again you know when it was more me thinking you know  to was not a good season to get it try and get it done we think we even got a permit for that year to try and get it done well then the following spring my husband which was last year had a heart attack was out of work for six months i didn't have the money to get it completed and now it sits there and we've had a lot of family issues his mother his father they're both you know  bad health anyway i we didn't get it done we got the letter to bring it down but i would just i know it's dangerous but i would still like to see if we can get it done i have a  home the materials are i have the materials you know that i would still like to see if we have an opportunity to fix it thank you are there any questions for the board from miss alice who is opposing the city's recommendation for i'm sorry how many additional rough estimates have you received i only received a couple of those i only received that one and then after that like i said the following spring was when my husband had a heart attack he was out of he was on short term disability for six months when you say the following spring are we going back to two thousand and thirteen fourteen well that's when i think when i started the permit on that two thousand and thirteen yeah that was and then in the fall there was somebody was supposed to you know that's when the person who i had hired to fix that had a heart attack and has people couldn't do it so then in two thousand and fourteen that's when my husband had a heart attack was on disability for six months and just went back to work and october of two thousand and fourteen when he's on short term his disability again you know but i would like to see if you know we can fix the problem without having to knock it down cindy is the power of the board to make the type of a decision the board has the responsibility to either up hold the decision overturned the decision or modify the decision you do have the ability to modify the decision and order repaired rather than demolished however the dangerous structures hearing officer does take into account the cost of the repair and the value of the structure when he makes a decision one way or the other and if the cost of the repairs for than fifty percent of the value then he will order a demolition and those numbers he gets from the city assessor's office but that's your decision if you want to modify it for repair thank you any questions or thoughts from thank you you know i would have been my next you know is to get someone to tell me how much if it would if it was possible to to repair verses to mock the mouse right thank you are there any other questions from the board i think i do have a question so it's first tonight you know what you might be asking for is it more time to get beyond it really search or what you're at this point is i mean i just haven't had time to like i said between his parents my husband out of work yet just i haven't had time to get any kind of answers as far as you know like if it can be read a beard or not you know i mean that's who are there with that's where i was active after i got the letters you know i just wanted to make sure that if it wasn't  for demolition it's twenty one days for repairs it's sixty days i think you we've heard from the homeowner that spoken opposition to the recommendation by the dean restructures hearing officer  is there anyone that wants to speak in support of the recommendation dangerous structures hearing officer on january twenty two repairs were not made and as required by the statute the hearing officer has asked you to review and i hold his decision to have to have the building demolished  mister i'm going to close the public hearing and open it up for deliberation amongst the board and our motion and make a motion to uphold motion to uphold by tender for a second support by by  stands and will look at the fourth and final miss lewin of three seventy nine central avenue is there anyone here that would like to speak in opposition to the recommendation by the  served for struck by the recommendation by the dangerous structures hearing officer and he here live at three seventy nine central there are only two small sections of this roof that need to be re roof this is not a structural issue ok there is no structural damage no leaks no insects nothing the rest of the roof is brand new my contractor king construction told trisha dryer last fall they do it this spring they were too busy last fall he's done this both verbal ian in writing and he did this again at the beginning of february and we plan on doing this in april but it's a simple roofing job it is the city makes a recommendation that the public hearing that took place in january twenty two two thousand and fifteen to uphold the finding to repair the roof i can tell you with the actions route but the hearing officer asked the homeowner to make replace all sections of the deteriorated roof these areas should have shingles removed docking inspected checking replaced as needed a new roof in shingles installed a building is required repairs should be made in accordance with chapter fourteen of the house and property maintenance code thank you is there anyone here that like to speak in support of the recommendation by the hearing officer  other than that that was stated his or staff reporter a public hearing was held before the dangerous structure's hearing officer on january twenty second requesting the repairs as i just read to you the repairs have not been made  so they have requested you to review and outpolled his decision we have received a written communication from a contractor that he does plan to do the work in the spring however that doesn't mean that you cannot uphold the decision statutorily the amount of time you have to care for her to make repairs before the city does it is sixty days and just for clarification if the port were to uphold it tonight the time begins to toll from this evening sixty days to repair correct right which puts us near the end of april yes thank you very much for that i would like to close the public hearing open up for deliberation and or motion attorney to explore unifying one set of rules for the combined the board of appeals which includes housing zoning and dangerous structures we need to formally authorize him given that form authorisation would someone like to make a motion to grant him the authorization i would think the motion to authorize to proceed for the work on the rules for housing the structure of appeals thank you motion by hendershot support support by souter on favor say