this is the time in the place for the meeting of the board of appeals for the city of tallent we are here to consider applications for variances and or special exceptions this board must try to interpret each application as it relates to the ordinance the sport is not power to re nor take any action that could be considered resulting applications need to make a number of crucial test in order to be granted those of you who are here and i've already answered those questions in your application will go through that again tonight there is a procedure guide available we ask that you come to the microphone to speak in that you state your name and address for the record we typically hear the applicant first and anyone supporting the application then anyone in opposition to it at that stay you may call city hall after eight thirty tomorrow morning to learn the results with that sure seventeen twenty four st seventeen point  staff request that the board of appeals uphold the decision of this danger structure officer in my name mr dreier i work for the city of holland and november time twenty six eighteen we held a dangerous structures hearing often dangerous structures hearing regarding the property at seventeen east twenty fourth street at this time the property was declared a dangerous structure and the property owner was required to make repairs to the home in the detached garage the deadline for repairs was to be on december five and inspection was conducted on december five and the repairs to the structure had not been made at that time the chairperson of the dangerous structures hearings submitted a letter to the board of appeals requesting that this hearing be held and that his findings be upheld by this board so this is the second public hearing for this property and i visited the property again today where it was determined that the requested repairs had not been made so the repairs that the city is requesting that this time include replacing the roof on the house because it has deteriorated and dilapidated ensuring all exter would services are properly coated this would be any areas where there's loose peeling or flaking paint ensure that all screens and window openings are properly maintained with no holes rips or tears to prevent animals or insects from entering the property to remove all vegetation that is growing on the house touching the house or hanging over the house to repair the garage to be in good condition with no defects or deterioration including replaced in any deteriorated roofing shingles ensuring all wood surfaces are properly coated where there is loose peeling are missing paint and removing all vegetation that is growing on the garage touching the garage or hanging over the garage were also requesting that all material be removed from the x true yard area this clue could include furniture garbage rubbish or other household materials we're also requesting that all dead dying or diseased trees or portions of those trees be removed from the property so i have a couple of pictures here that i'm going to show this picture was taken in june and this is the front of the house this is the driveway that leads back to the gra and i'm going to move kind of quickly because there are several pictures this is a screen on the east side of the front porch and a piece of plastic that are coming off is another view of the front porch and the vines and it's my understanding the property owner does cut the vines periodic lee but i think they've gotten to a point where there is a lot of growth on the exterior portion of the property these pictures were taken in november showing material in the driveway here you can see some of the peeling paint  the eaves of the house and the window tr these are some of the vines on the house it's hard to see because of the tree canopy this is a tree that one of the neighbors is concerned about there's a dead section of this tree portion of the tree fell earlier this year and damage their personal property and they're concerned that there another limb that might come down these pictures were taken today it's a little easier to see the house with the without the leaves on the trees this is one section of the roof where the shingles are deteriorated and missing and you can see the growth of the ivy is another section of the roof you can see the peeling paint again on the trim in the window frames in this is the condition of the screen today or the plastic and then these are some of the materials that are in the driveway that we're requesting be removed and then here's the picture of the tree metal is really hard to see and a picture the limb that's dad we did have tree expert who works at the parks department for the city of holland i believe he did mark the tree so that the property owner would know which tree we were talking about in which limb there's a large tree appears to be healthy and alive but there is a limb that is dad that looks like it could fall it's another picture of some i and that's all i have if the board determines that these conditions are still a violation of the city of holland house and property maintenance code i did bring a copy of the code with me if you have any questions about our requirements of the property maintenance code if the board upholds the order as written by the dangerous structures hearing officer they're obligated to give the property owner sixty days to complete the necessary repairs if the owner fails to complete the repairs then the city does have the authority to put the project out for beds and have the work done and then we'll send a bill to the property owner and the unpaid bills will then be placed as a lien against the hearing before we go to the dangerous structures hearing typically we send letters to the property owner multiple letters to try to gain compliance before we go to the dangerous structures hearing november was  see and i'm the owner of the home ok contrary to what trish or just stated i did not receive multiple letters i received one letter in august which i responded to the city did not answer that when i came to the dangerous structures here it i provided more than adequate proof that there was nothing wrong with any of the roofs king construction had re roof the front porch and the garage and i was on the property two days ago i can't find any strangles that are industry pair anywhere and i provided your panel with some information i dropped it off last night i don't know if you have that or not but that has pictures of the roofs and the property in regard to the trim as i stated in the letter both of the dangerous structures hearing officer and do your board i don't know how to do the painting or any of this work during winter months and i told them at the dangerous structures hearing that i would do the painting on the trim in the spring when it was appropriate because you can see that that needs to be done but i also provided them pictures there is no rot there is no damage and any of the trim anywhere i contacted watkins tree service within the last week to take a look at this tree the person the neighbor who is on twenty fourth and central made the complaint he never talked to me he's provided no pictures corroborating his claims that a tree branch fell on his property i don't know what happened he did not contact me and he they have all my phone numbers and email so you you've contacted watson should be able to take care of that in the right day and they've done work for me before there because my mother had had a dead tree in the backyard so they trimmed all the trees at that time that was about ten years ago but as far as the roofing goes t he basic structure i can't find any problems at all the things that are in the garage i provided you pictures of those there patio chairs i do not keep household items garbage any of that on this property i don't live there at this point i plan to move there in the spring and sell the house i'm in but i'm not going to reroof a house that has no problems and i don't that's why i didn't do anything the last few months besides i don't know how to paint and have the paint stick in snow i mean that to me is absolutely outrageous other than the painting i had fixed the screen on the east side of the porch this week also and i had the plastic up but that obviously didn't stay up you talked about the roof have you had a new rivers in there do you have a letter do you have anything to cut all i can have somebody look at the upper roof but came construction can provide corroboration that they redid the front the front porch roof in the garage and i have provided pictures of all of that i could not find any shingles anywhere that were in disrepair and i looked at it during the day two days ago and that's what i find so frustrating is if there's no problem there is no leaks we had leaks in the garage ten fifteen years ago it was re then where is the problem and i don't know of any city ordinance that prevents you from having i v on the house trisha dryer testified at the last hearing saying this could cause damage this could cause this is  not fact there isn't any damage and i don't intend to leave the landscaping the way it is that was my mother's preference she just died a year ago they started this actually i received a complaint the day of her funeral which i find outrageous tricia has harassed me for years and if this goes against me i am going directly to the state attorney general because i have more than adequate proof that this has been ongoing harassment i'm not going to leave the trim and painted then it would rot but i could not find any damage on that either and beyond that i've tried to cooperate with the city but that has not gotten me anywhere but more and more problems and i tried to provide as much you know we're abberation for what the place actually looks like but i couldn't find any shingles anywhere that were a problem ok all right  questions yeah for the allegations against the property hauling do you think it would take to bring the request by the city to to meet the standard other than the painting ok it's because i have to be able to pay for this but i'm not going to put a new roof on if it isn't justified and i'd be happy to have somebody look at the main house roof in appropriate weather but this is a three story house that would be extremely dangerous to have somebody up there during the last december and january we've had ice and snow that's not safe for anybody to be up there then but i have to be able to sell my house and be able to pay for this show when the when did you first come into contact with the city thirty years ago this is been going on with regard to this particular matter with this one i think the first letter came in august and i sent a response in september ok and i get i get nothing back from them and on a separate matter where they took me to court i asked the judge what to do when they didn't respond and he didn't know so that leaves me in a quandary so i mean i've had to deal with my mother's death because of their constant and interference i haven't even been able to settle the estate and i don't think this is appropriate i ought to be able to take care of my property as i see fit without them constantly going after me i don't really care for all the trees on the property but we've taken care of those over and over and over and i don't i'm really not interested in what the neighbors think of the landscaping i don't think that's justification for making changes and i know there are two neighbors in particular that don't like it but one of them had sandbags and with a mass in their yard nobody report but i thought with this roof i could not find any damage on the upper part of the roof and i looked on as many sides as i could get it and the pictures i provided show this when tricia says there's deterioration i can't find any i know there are two eaves that have a couple little gaps in him that have to be fixed but those to me are minor ok thank you ma'am sure to she can you put up the pictures again for today just so we can which was the december hearing ok is there anyone else to speak in opposition of this matter ok searing seeing don i'll close the public hearing what's the pleasure of the board admission she was aware of it through the entirety of the fall again my own admission she was at the meeting in november and contrary to first hearing about it via the letter care of and is it possible for us to do ninety days for the paint instead of sixty trish the city works with people so long as there's progress correct ok but i have a question about the landscaping issue about the vines on the house is there something that does regulate vines on the house concerning the roof which is the large that's just the expensive part of this entire problem does the city have any evidence or anything further in detail to point to besides the appearance of some missing six shingles and there is there's a question of whether the roof actually is deteriorating or not and do you have more well before you answer that the remedy in the letter is to tear it off and replace it roof yeah that is is this a situation that you've determined cannot be repaired isn't violation of a couple of different sections of chapter fourteen one section specifically states roofs and drainage the roof shall be structurally sound and not to have d fax that might admit to rain roof drains gutters and downspouts shall be maintained in good repair free from obstructions roof drainage shall be adequate to prevent rainwater from causing dampness or deterioration in the walls or interior portion of the building if the hired a roofing contractor to inspect the roof and they submitted a signed a letter to our office on their company letterhead stating that the roof statements from contractors stating that you know it's in good repair and you know we've been we've done the inspection and you know it's not necessary it's it's much better than would appear then that that needs to be taken into with regard to the notice it does say tear off or replace virtually we heard that a repair would work do we need to make a condition to this that a repair would be adequate or is that just something that by default if the home is in code compliance it's self evident that this notice is not a political because because i don't want to do is have a situation where we uphold this but a deteriorated portions to do this then then there would be compliance with the report is there's only a small area that needs to be that's deteriorated correction of that small area would be would be so we don't need to put any conditions right right back back to the question about timing that was mentioned earlier the statute does say that you have to order that it be done within sixty days if because of the weather it can't be the city's going to have to allow or a little additional time before the city does it but it's not a lot of things can be done between now and sixty days from now which would be the end of march basically and so you know if we should get bad weather in march the city would have to take that into account before going out to sorry go ahead seven zero six goldenrod avenue seventeen point zero two xen my class craft is requesting a special exception to construction to construct an excess rebuilding unit at seven o six goldenrod ave the board is authorized scrafton i think we're going to be in and out real quick here tonight do you have an infill approval i don't believe so no no  because that's one of the one of the things for us to take this forward is we need to have that that process completed and the infill prove always what it couldn't have been done before this meeting we also have another eighty year that's coming next month which had the same situation and so he is in the process of applying for the infill review as well so we can take this two approaches we can talk about it tonight and table it and talk about it some more next month or we can just say i met your pleasure i guess at this point that work for you yes all right great i'll yeah yeah yeah i'll take care that i'll leave the public hearing open so that we don't need to deal with it again next month right  where in support by van antwerp to table until next month all of a favor say aye aye anybody opposed all right just a piece of information that questionnaire is basically just all those regulations that i've sent out before in itself it's not the code but it's very useful ok let's finish up the meeting here then we've got meeting minutes to pro from december one i move approval of the meeting minutes all right support so i think we're done i'll be looking for a motion to a