9/23/2020 ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS Minutes

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Town of Nlashpee yZKY�•~ti if C 16 Great Week&ad Nwrt'h Alashpu?,Massachusetts 020.49 MASHPEE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS MEETING MINUTES SEPTEMBER 23,2020 The Mashpee Zoning Board of Appeals held Public Hearings on Wednesday, September 23, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. in the Waquoit Room at the Mashpee Town Hall, 16 Great Neck Road North. Chairman, Jonathan D. Furbush, Board Members Ronald Bonvie, Scott Goldstein, Norman J. Gould and Associate Members Sharon Sangeleer, George Ganzenmuller, and James Reiffarth were present. Charlie Maintanis, Building Inspector, was also present. Chairman Furbush opened the meeting at 6:04 pm and announced that the hearings were being televised live on Mashpee TV as a virtual remote meeting. He will take public comments after each hearing. NEW HEARINGS 62 Cayuga Avenue: Owners, James T. Morahan, Jr. and Nancy Morahan request a Written Finding under§174-17 of the Zoning Bylaws to allow for construction of a second story addition and deck on property located in an R-3 Zoning District, Map 65 Parcel 10, Mashpee,MA. Attorney Kevin Kirrane represented the homeowner for the application. Also present was Dan O'Jala with Down Cape Engineer,Adam Moring who is the Engineer for the project, and Jim Morahan, homeowner. Attorney Kirrane provided the Board with a site plan showing the existing and proposed dwelling. The application is for a specific finding because it's an addition to an existing single-family residential structure. The lot is situated on a 10,000 plus square foot lot with 87 ft. of frontage along Cayuga Avenue and slopes down to John's Pond. The existing house is a single-story residential ranch style structure, consisting of five (5)rooms, and has three (3)bedrooms that was built in 1964. The dwelling itself is non-conforming because it sits only 36.9 ft. from Cayuga Ave, and 38.3 ft. from the edge of the wetland resource area. The front setback requirement is 40 ft. from front lot line, and the requirement from the pond is a 50 ft. setback. Under Section 174-17 the Board has the authority to grant a specific finding for the requested relief. The proposal consists of a second floor addition to the existing structure and will essentially be built within the footprint of the existing first floor with the exception of a 2 ft. overhang to the rear on the John's Pond side of the building with two decks. The first floor deck will be above the ground, and there will be a deck off the second floor addition. The structure itself is not getting any closer to wetlands because the 2 ft. overhang is not considered part of the setback criteria, but the two decks bring the building closer to the wetland resource area by 10 ft. There's no changes to the front yard setback, and there is no expansion on either side of the house. 1