May 21, 2015

at the meeting that evening. She continued with a barrage of statements one of which is she was representing many people who live there which Mr. Williams objected to. Ms. Weiss stated that the Board is very concerned about the neighbors and thought the applicant was too since they have gone to great extent to try and alleviate the problems of the neighbors. Ms. Kasher asked Mr. Staigar when he recently did the traffic counts. Mr. Staigar gave the dates of the prior traffic counts he performed and said the most recently updated report is dated November 5, 2014. Ms. Kasher asked how many hours in the last count did you measure on Laurel Avenue. Mr. Staigar replied six hours between eleven a.m. and one p.m. and the between four p.m. to 6:30 p.m. to get comparative purposes. There was dialogue between Ms. Kasher and Mr. Staigar referring to the times that the congregants would be coming to the site for services; if in the future there would be other activities for different purposes in the facility. There was an extensive discussion between Ms. Kasher, Mr. Staigar, Chairman Buechler and the Board regarding left hand turns into the site from Laurel Avenue and various concerns Ms. Kasher had regarding the ingress and egress from her property. Chairman Buechler asked Ms. Kasher if her concern was that this generates too much traffic for Barton Drive and that it shouldn’t be built. Ms. Kasher replied that it generates a hazard the all the traffic on both sides of Laurel Avenue. Chairman Buechler asked Ms. Kasher if she looked to see what somebody could build on this property without getting a variance to see what kind traffic could theoretically generate. Ms. Kasher answered no. Chairman Buechler if anyone else had questions for Mr. Staigar. Mr. Benzvi indicated he did he was invited to the podium. Mr. Benzvi stated that he read Mr. Staigar’s reports one from 2014 and then a revised one. He questioned the schedule for prayer session which was submitted for the two other days as being held six p.m. to 8 p.m. with a typical attendance of 40 people not eleven a.m. to one p.m. like it stated in the report. A discussion between Mr. Benzvi, Mr. Staigar, Ms. Weiss, and Chairman Buechler arose regarding where in the report was the schedule for prayer session for the other two days as being held six p.m. to eight p.m. 17