August 14, 2024 Planning Board Special Meeting Transcript - WEHI

28 (Pages 106 to 109)28 (Pages 106 to 109) Page 106 1 MR. WEISLEDER: Right. And I do 2 appreciate you being consistent with the lights, but 3 there will be lights from the apartments and other 4 lights people bring and I still think there's going 5 to be a lot of light pollution coming down that 6 hill, especially in the fall and in the winter time 7 when there is no coverage. So I don't know how 8 we're going to be preventing that being so close to 9 a -- a slope and those people in the Howell valley, 10 I'll call it now. 11 MR. APPEL: So one of the things that 12 I also wanted to clarify, that dimension that I gave 13 you was not to the upper floors, that was to the 14 base of the building, and the upper floors, based on 15 what we were just discussing with the wedding-caking 16 of the upper floors, actually cuts back and would 17 actually be additional dimension because the 18 building steps as it goes upward at those end caps. 19 MR. WEISLEDER: Okay. My last 20 question for you is: Obviously, it's a puzzle 21 laying out all these buildings, you know, and we're 22 trying to understand why Building D, the largest 23 building with all this room and space, we could all 24 be challenged, but there's got to be a way to move 25 it -- make it more amenable to the neighbors on Page 108 1 One was for the 50 percent foundation and the second 2 is for the seven-foot? Or no? No. That's not an 3 exception. 4 MR. PLOCKER: No, I addressed it 5 before but I would be happy to address it, ma'am. 6 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Mr. Plocker. 7 MR. PLOCKER: The only bulk variance 8 that the application seeks is for relief from the 50 9 percent requirement for the exposed foundations. 10 What everyone is calling "the ridgeline," that 11 dotted line on the concept plan and you refer to the 12 seven-foot measurement from the pitch point, unless 13 I misunderstood you. 14 MS. JHAVERI-GAJARAWALA: Yup. 15 MR. PLOCKER: That is not a lot line, 16 that is not a setback line. All that the ordinance 17 requires is that we stay west of that line. 18 MS. JHAVERI-GAJARAWALA: Okay. 19 MR. PLOCKER: Thank you. 20 MS. JHAVERI-GAJARAWALA: Understood. 21 Thank you for the clarification. 22 So one of my questions -- hang on a 23 second so I can go through this. Sorry, I should 24 have been more prepared. 25 Now I understand there's no ordinances Page 107 1 Howell Drive that have the least say. Was there an 2

s -- hang on a 23 second so I can go through this. Sorry, I should 24 have been more prepared. 25 Now I understand there's no ordinances Page 107 1 Howell Drive that have the least say. Was there an 2 opportunity to do that? 3 MR. PLOCKER: This is the plan that's 4 before the Board. 5 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Okay. 6 MR. WEISLEDER: Okay. I'll finish my 7 questions for now. Thank you. 8 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Thank you. We're 9 going to take a ten-minute bio break. 10 (Recess taken) 11 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Welcome, ladies and 12 gentlemen, everybody on Zoom. Thank you so much. 13 Young lady, you're up. 14 Q. Thank you. I appreciate being young 15 lady. Who do I spell my name out to? Sorry. Who 16 do I spell my name out to? 17 BOARD MEMBER: All of us. 18 MS. JHAVERI-GAJARAWALA: Okay. First 19 name is S-E-J-A-L and then the last name is 20 J-H-A-V-E-R-I-hyphenated G-A-J-A-R-A-W-A-L-A, West 21 Orange. Is that good? 22 All right, so I think my first 23 question, I just want a clarification posed to all 24 the different comments before. There are actually 25 two variance exceptions you're looking for, right? Page 109 1 or laws for this, but since we are in extraordinary 2 times -- 3 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Can you hear? 4 MS. JHAVERI-GAJARAWALA: -- will all 5 the buildings be built with potential earthquakes in 6 mind? 7 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: I'm sorry, ma'am -- 8 MS. JHAVERI-GAJARAWALA: We have -- 9 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Ma'am, can I ask you 10 to speak into the microphone? They can't hear you 11 in the back. 12 MS. JHAVERI-GAJARAWALA: Oh. 13 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: They can't hear you 14 in the back. 15 MS. JHAVERI-GAJARAWALA: Oh. Sorry. 16 Can you hear me? 17 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: The air- 18 conditioning's too loud? 19 (Many members of the public shout out - 20 inaudible) 21 MS. JHAVERI-GAJARAWALA: Can you hear 22 me now? 23 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Is that better? 24 MS. JHAVERI-GAJARAWALA: Okay, let's 25 try this again.