Board of Zoning Appeals

1 REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS 2 Community Center Art Room 3 223 Little Falls Street 4 Falls Church, Virginia 22046 5 February 14, 2019 6 7:30 p.m. 7 8 1. CALL TO ORDER 9 MR. JONES: I'd like to call to order the 10 February 14th, 2019, regular meeting of the Board 11 of Zoning Appeals. 12 Can we have a call to order, roll call. 13 14 2. ROLL CALL 15 RECORDING SECRETARY: Mr. Bartlett. 16 MR. BARTLETT: Here. 17 RECORDING SECRETARY: Mr. Jones. 18 MR. JONES: Here. 19 RECORDING SECRETARY: Mr. Misleh. 20 MR. MISLEH: Here. 21 22 23 3. PETITIONS 24 MR. JONES: There are no Petitions. 25 26 4. OLD BUSINESS 27 MR. JONES: I don't think we have any 28 Old Business. 29 MS. ROUZI: No. 30 31 5. NEW BUSINESS 32 a. Election of Officers 33 MR. JONES: So for the New Business, 34 we're going to have to elect new officers. 35 MS. ROUZI: Yes. 36 MR. JONES: So I guess because of an 37 absence of the current chair, we will I guess vote 38 for the chairperson. 39 MS. ROUZI: Yes. 40 MR. BARTLETT: I'd like to point out for 41 Calendar Year 2018, Dave Calabrese served as chair 42 and Darcy Williamson served as vice chair. Based 43 on information, Darcy Williamson is leaving the 44 Board of Zoning Appeals. 45 MS. ROUZI: That's right. 46 MR. JONES: Thank you for pointing that 47 out. We have a vacancy. 48 So with that, since Mr. Calabrese is 49 available for another tenure as chairperson, does 50 anybody have a -- and obviously he's not the only 51 candidate, but does anybody have a nomination for 52 the chair for the Board of Zoning Appeals for 2019? 53 MR. MISLEH: I nominate Mr. Calabrese to 54 be chair for 2019. 55 MR. JONES: Do we have a second? 56 MR. BARTLETT: I second that nomination. 57 MR. JONES: Can we have a roll call. 58 MS. ROUZI: Sure. 59 RECORDING SECRETARY: Mr. Bartlett. 60 MR. BARTLETT: Yes. 61 RECORDING SECRETARY: Mr. Jones. 62 MR. JONES: Yes. 63 RECORDING SECRETARY: Mr. Misleh. 64 MR. MISLEH: Yes. 65 RECORDING SECRETARY: Thank you. 66 67 MR. JONES: Congratulations to Mr. 68 Calabrese for the chairmanship for the Board of 69 Zoning Appeals for 2019. 70 I was going to leave this towards the end 71 of the meeting but Darcy Williamson is not here, 72 the Board would like to express our heartfelt 73 appreciation for his leadership and guidance, his 74 many years of service. 75 So just a big thank you from the Board to 76 Darcy. 77 MR. JONES: I guess we have to approve 78 the Rules of Procedure now for 2019, is that right? 79 MS. ROUZI: Yes, but did you want to 80 nominate a vice chair? 81 MR. JONES: Yes. We would like to also 82 nominate a vice chair for 2019. 83 Do we have any nominations? 84 MR. BARTLETT: I'd like to nominate Roy 85 Jones to serve as vice chair on the Board of Zoning 86 Appeals. 87 MR. MISLEH: I second that. 88 MR. JONES: Roll call. 89 RECORDING SECRETARY: Mr. Bartlett. 90 MR. BARTLETT: Yes. 91 RECORDING SECRETARY: Mr. Jones. 92 MR. JONES: Yes. 93 RECORDING SECRETARY: Mr. Misleh. 94 MR. MISLEH: Yes. 95 RECORDING SECRETARY: Thank you and 96 congratulations. 97 MR. JONES: Thank you. 98 99 b. Rules of Procedures 100 MR. JONES: So with that, we will move to 101 approving the Rules of Procedure for 2019. 102 Take a few moments to look over that. 103 MR. MISLEH: Akida, has anything changed 104 since the last -- 105 MS. ROUZI: No, nothing has changed since 106 last year. 107 MR. JONES: That's good. I think we're 108 all familiar with it from last year. 109 Do we need to approve that? 110 MS. ROUZI: Yes, we need to approve the 111 Rules of Procedure. 112 MR. JONES: So then we'll call for a roll 113 call vote for the Rules of Procedure for 2019. 114 RECORDING SECRETARY: Sure. 115 Mr. Bartlett. 116 MR. BARTLETT: Yes. 117 RECORDING SECRETARY: Mr. Jones. 118 MR. JONES: Yes. 119 RECORDING SECRETARY: Mr. Misleh. 120 MR. MISLEH: Yes. 121 RECORDING SECRETARY: Thank you. 122 123 c. 2019 Annual Meeting Calendar 124 MR. JONES: The next item on the Agenda 125 is the 2019 calendar. 126 Anybody see any conflicts or have any 127 concerns with the timing? 128 (No response.) 129 MR. JONES: There's no concerns? 130 MR. BARTLETT: No concerns. 131 MR. JONES: Mr. Misleh, you good? 132 MR. MISLEH: Yeah, I'm good. 133 MR. JONES: Roll call vote to approve the 134 meeting calendar for 2019. 135 RECORDING SECRETARY: Mr. Bartlett. 136 MR. BARTLETT: Yes. 137 RECORDING SECRETARY: Mr. Jones. 138 MR. JONES: Yes. 139 RECORDING SECRETARY: Mr. Misleh. 140 MR. MISLEH: Yes. 141 RECORDING SECRETARY: Thank you. 142 143 d. 2018 Annual Report 144 MR. JONES: The last item of New Business 145 is the 2018 Annual Report. This will be from David 146 Calabrese, the Chair of the Board of Zoning Appeals 147 to Mayor Tarter and members of Council. 148 MS. ROUZI: And I will update the Vice 149 Chair on the back. 150 MR. BARTLETT: Just for a point of 151 clarification on the Annual Report, on page 2 152 regarding actions taken by the BZA in 2018, it 153 says: 154 Variances Considered. And then also below that it 155 says: The BZA approved the following Variance 156 Allocations. 157 Does this include applications for 158 variances that were not approved? 159 MS. ROUZI: I'd have to look that up. I 160 can't remember. I'll have to double check on that. 161 I'll let you know. 162 I might not have included those that did 163 not get approved. I should probably have a 164 different header for that. 165 MR. BARTLETT: I just want to make sure. 166 It says Considered versus Approved. Because I do 167 recall denials of certain variance applications. 168 MS. ROUZI: Yes. I'll double check on 169 that. Thanks for noting that. 170 MR. JONES: Can we continue that to next 171 month to get that update? 172 MS. ROUZI: Yes, absolutely. I think 173 that would be great. 174 MR. JONES: Do I have a motion to 175 continue? 176 MR. MISLEH: I move to continue to allow 177 staff to verify the information in the letter. 178 MR. BARTLETT: I second that. 179 MR. JONES: Roll call. 180 RECORDING SECRETARY: Mr. Bartlett. 181 MR. BARTLETT: Yes. 182 RECORDING SECRETARY: Mr. Jones. 183 MR. JONES: Yes. 184 RECORDING SECRETARY: Mr. Misleh. 185 MR. MISLEH: Yes. 186 RECORDING SECRETARY: Thank you. 187 188 6. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 189 a. Approval of the December 13, 2018 meeting 190 minutes 191 MR. JONES: And so we'll move to the 192 December 13, 2018, meeting minutes and the approval 193 thereof. 194 We'll take a few minutes. 195 (Minutes reviewed.) 196 MR. JONES: I'd like to call a roll call 197 to approve the Board of Zoning Appeals meeting 198 minutes from the December 13, 2018, meeting. 199 RECORDING SECRETARY: Mr. Bartlett. 200 MR. BARTLETT: Yes. 201 RECORDING SECRETARY: Mr. Jones. 202 MR. JONES: Yes. 203 RECORDING SECRETARY: Mr. Misleh. 204 MR. MISLEH: Yes. 205 RECORDING SECRETARY: Thank you. 206 207 7. OTHER BUSINESS 208 MR. JONES: Akida, for the Other 209 Business, I think we had this conversation before 210 the meeting started, could you potentially preview 211 any applications that we have currently in the 212 pipeline. 213 MS. ROUZI: We do have one application 214 for Columbia Baptist Church. It's for height of a 215 steeple. It's about the maximum allowed for that 216 zoning district. 217 That might be next month or the month 218 after. We're still working the schedule with the 219 applicant. So we'll figure that out. That's the 220 only application we have. 221 MR. JONES: Thank you. 222 I don't believe there's any Other 223 Business to discuss. 224 So before we adjourn, again, we'd just 225 like to recognize Darcy Williamson for his 226 chairmanship, his leadership and wish him the best. 227 228 8. ADJOURNMENT 229 MR. JONES: So with that, is there a 230 motion to adjourn the meeting? 231 MR. BARTLETT: Yes. I move to adjourn 232 the meeting of the Board of Zoning Appeals for 233 February 14, 2019. 234 MR. MISLEH: I second. 235 MR. JONES: Roll call. 236 RECORDING SECRETARY: Mr. Bartlett. 237 MR. BARTLETT: Yes. 238 RECORDING SECRETARY: Mr. Jones. 239 MR. JONES: Yes. 240 RECORDING SECRETARY: Mr. Misleh. 241 MR. MISLEH: Yes. 242 RECORDING SECRETARY: Thank you. 243 244 245 246