1 03/24/2021 1 2 TOWN OF NORTH HEMPSTEAD 3 BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS 4 VIRTUAL ZOOM PUBLIC HEARING 5 6 Wednesday, March 24, 2021 7 10:11 A.M. 8 9 10 BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: 11 12 13 DAVID L. MAMMINA, A.I.A. - Chairman 14 LESLIE FRANCIS, ESQ. Vice Chairman 15 DAVID LEVINE, ESQ. Member 16 DANIEL DONATELLI, ESQ. Member 17 JAY HERNANDEZ - Member 18 19 20 ALSO PRESENT: 21 DEBORAH ALGIOS, ESQ. - Deputy Town 22 Attorney 23 VIRGINIA WAGNER - Secretary 24 MARC RUSSO Stenographer 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 1 03/24/2021 2 2 P R O C E E D I N G S 3 CHAIR MAMMINA: Good morning, 4 everyone, and welcome to the Zoning Board of 5 Appeals, Town of North Hempstead. And what I'd 6 like to do before we get started is to just give 7 a little talk through the way we do things in 8 the town in case you've never been before a 9 zoning board. And if that is the case, we'll 10 ask you to just stay relaxed and calm. And if 11 you have been, you know, we may do things a 12 little bit differently than other 13 municipalities, whether it's a town or a 14 village. 15 So what we will do is Virginia 16 will call each one of the cases. We typically 17 call them in order, but, you know, not 18 necessarily. And when that is called, you know, 19 I will be recalling that and at the same time, 20 in the Zoom age, rather than putting hands up 21 physically, at that point then, you will notify, 22 you know, on the -- on the chat, and Deborah 23 will then -- 24 Well, what's the word you 25 used, Deborah? 26 MS. ALGIOS: Promote. 27 CHAIR MAMMINA: Promote. 28 There we go. Promote. It's something I never 29 -- it never happened. I'm still in the first 30 grade, so -- Deborah will promote you and then, 31 you know, at that point, you will have the 32 floor. 33 You will give your name and 34 address as everyone will as they come up. And 35 the applicant then would have the floor and they 36 would put on their case, so to speak, for the 37 Board. The Board will ask whatever questions it 38 feels that it would like to ask. If there is 39 anyone else who would like to speak, either in 40 support, or in opposition, they will then be 41 promoted one at a time. 42 If we do have, let's say, 43 whatever husband-wife, partner-partner, or 44 whatever it is, you may both, you know, come on 45 at the same time. You'll both give your name 46 and address. And the only thing that we ask, is 47 that you don't speak simultaneously so that the 48 court reporter can take an accurate record. 1 03/24/2021 3 2 If there is anyone else who 3 wishes to speak, then when that is done, the 4 applicant, and typically only the applicant -- I 5 mean, that's not a hard-and-fast rule -- but 6 generally it is only an applicant who gets a 7 second turn at the, you know, at the podium 8 because the Board may have questions that we 9 would like to ask based on testimony that was 10 presented. Or at the same time, the applicant 11 may wish to support or refute what someone has 12 said. So when that is done -- 13 Deborah, is this the week that 14 we're -- that we are no longer postponing the 15 decisions? 16 MS. ALGIOS: We did that -- we 17 started that at the last -- 18 MR. LEVINE: Last week. 19 CHAIR MAMMINA: At the last 20 hearing? Okay. So what will then happen is, 21 you know, the Board will do one of three things: 22 We will either approve the application, we will 23 deny the application, or we will continue the 24 application and/or reserve it. 25 Because we may want to offer 26 some kind of a compromise, you know, to the 27 applicant, you know, or we might want to see a 28 piece of paper, you know, a, you know, a closing 29 document, or, you know, any number of things, 30 and that would then be carried over and 31 continued, at least, in the next hearing. 32 So as I said, you know, anyone 33 who's never done this before, we just ask that, 34 you know, that you just remain, you know, calm 35 and, you know, it's -- sometimes it's easy, 36 sometimes it's hard for people, but we'll help 37 to carry you through that. 38 So with all of that said, 39 Virginia, do we have any modifications to 40 today's calendar? 41 MR. FRANCIS: Can we do the 42 pledge then now? 43 MS. WAGNER: Yes, Chairman, we 44 have -- we can do that after the -- 45 CHAIR MAMMINA: We'll do it 46 after -- 47 MS. WAGNER: I'll do the 48 adjournments and then we'll do the pledge. 1 03/24/2021 4 2 We have an adjournment of 3 appeal No. 21021 -- Inessa Borochov, 36 4 Shorecliff Place in Great Nicks -- Great Neck; 5 Section 2, Block 367, Lot 56. Residence-A 6 zoning district, that is adjourned until April 7 21st. 8 We also have an adjournment 9 without a date of appeal No. 21011, Minoo 10 Zolfaghari, 64 Saddle Lane, Roslyn Heights; 11 Section 7, Block 171, Lot 28, in the 12 Residence-AA zoning district and, again, that's 13 adjourned without a date. 14 MR. LEVINE: So which was the 15 first one? I'm sorry. 16 MS. WAGNER: First one is 17 appeal number 21021, Inessa Borochov. 18 MR. FRANCIS: It's not in our 19 memo. It's already taken out of our memo. 20 CHAIR MAMMINA: Yeah, I don't 21 see it in here. 22 MR. LEVINE: Yeah. 23 MS. WAGNER: It wasn't -- no, 24 I sent you an I think I sent everybody an e-mail 25 saying that that was going to be adjourned, but 26 it wasn't marked on the calendar. 27 CHAIR MAMMINA: Okay. And as 28 I say most weeks, for whatever reason, doing 29 this on Zoom -- and I was just talking to the 30 rest of the Board about how frequently I am on 31 Zoom. These things throw me off here, okay, so 32 I'm a little bit out of order and my apologies 33 to everyone, but we've always opened the 34 meeting, you know, with the Pledge of 35 Allegiance, so I'm going to ask Mr. Levine, who 36 is soon to be Judge Levine, to please lead us in 37 the Pledge of Allegiance. 38 (Pledge of Allegiance.) 39 CHAIR MAMMINA: Okay. Thank 40 you, everyone. 41 And, Virginia, if you would, 42 please, call the first case. 43 44 45 46 47 48 1 03/24/2021 5 2 MS. WAGNER: The first 3 appeal is appeal No. 21020, Robert Marantz and 4 Preeti M. Shah, 49-03 Concord Avenue in Great 5 Neck; Section 2, Block 286, Lot 164, in the 6 Residence-C zoning district. Variance from 70.B 7 -- 70-50.B to construct second-story additions 8 and a porch that are located too close to the 9 street, and to legalize a first floor addition 10 that is too close to the street. 11 CHAIR MAMMINA: We've heard 12 Appeal number 21020, Robert Marantz and Preeti 13 M. Shah is -- if there's anyone who is 14 interested in the application other than the 15 applicant, I will ask that you raise your hand 16 in the chat, and then after the presentation is 17 done by Ms. Curto, you will then be promoted one 18 at a time. So -- good morning, Ms. Curto, and 19 the -- 20 MS. CURTO: Good morning. 21 CHAIR MAMMINA: -- the Zoom is 22 yours. 23 (ANDREA CURTO, ESQ., testified 24 as follows.) 25 MS. CURTO: Good morning, 26 Chairman Mammina, members of the Board. Hope 27 everybody's doing well this morning, haven't 28 seen you in a while. And congratulations, Mr. 29 Levine, on becoming a judge. 30 MR. LEVINE: Thank you. It 31 wouldn't be the same if you weren't here for my 32 last hearing. 33 MS. CURTO: Thank you for 34 that. I think my client is waiting to get in. 35 I don't see him on the Zoom right now. Is that 36 Dan G? I don't know. His name is Robert 37 Marantz, so I don't think that's him. 38 MS. WAGNER: No, that's Dan. 39 Dan G. is our IT person. 40 MS. CURTO: Yeah. I know he's 41 waiting to get on, so if you could just let him 42 in. 43 MS. ALGIOS: I'm looking for 44 him. I don't see him on here. Oh, you know, I 45 see him. Okay. 46 MS. CURTO: Okay. 47 MR. LEVINE: There he is. I 48 see him. 1 03/24/2021 6 2 MS.