Zoning Board of Adjustment - Zoning Board of Adjustment Meeting

1 CITY OF UNION CITY HUDSON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY ZONING BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT : TRANSCRIPT OF RECORDED REGULAR MEETING : : PROCEEDINGS ____________________________: City Hall 3715 Palisade Avenue Union City, New Jersey Thursday, May 11, 2017 Commencing at 6:54:03 p.m. M E M B E R S P R E S E N T: MIGUEL ORTIZ DAVID W. PRESSEY VICTOR M. GRULLON, Vice Chairman M E M B E R S A B S E N T: KHALED DARDIR MARGARITA GUTIERREZ JOHN MEDINA JOSEPH D. BONACCI LIBERO MAROTTA, Alternate No. 3 PETER C. DOUMAS, Alternate No. 4 A L S O P R E S E N T: CARLOS VALLEJO, Secretary to the Board TOMAS R. PANEQUE, ESQ., Board Attorney DAVID SPATZ, Consultant Community Housing and Planning Associates,  2 1 (Whereupon, all Agenda items were carried 2 to the Regular Meeting of June 8, 2017: 3 4 IV. Adoption of Minutes: 5 Regular Meeting held on April 6, 2017 6 7 V. Public Hearing: (Request to adjourn) 8 1. 3900 LLC, 545-547 39th Street, Block 9 224, Lots 53-56. Mixed use mid-rise 23 unit 10 apartment building and law firm office on fourth 11 floor. Continuation. Adjourned on 04-27-2017 12 M. Caride, Esq. 13 14 VI. Public Hearing: (Request to adjourn) 15 2. Juan Vizueta, 534 42nd Street, Block 16 244, Lot 10. Proposes to legalize two existing 17 apartments. To go from a two family house to a 18 three family house. 19 Alonso & Navarrete, Esq. 20 21 VII. Public Hearing: (Request to adjourn) 22 3. Centro Cristiano Hechos 29. 2000 West 23 Street aka 526 Monastery Place, Block 109, Lot 24 26. Proposes worship space in existing 25 office/residential building.  3 1 L. Diaz, Esq. 2 3 VIII. Public Hearing: Extension 4 4. K & J Union City, LLC, 609-611 25th 5 Street & 608-610 24th Street, Block 136, Lots 9, 6 10, 21, 22. Applicants are seeking for a one 7 year extension. Resolution was memorialized 8 April 12, 2012 and Corrective Resolution was 9 memorialized May 10, 2012. The first extension 10 of the Resolution was adopted on June 9, 2016. 11 R. Matule, Esq. 12 13 IX. Public Hearing: Extension 14 5. Leon De La Vega, 3305 Pleasant Avenue, 15 Block 201, Lot 5. Resolution was memorialized 16 July 27, 2006. Applicants are seeking for one 17 year extension. 18 B. Pereiras, Esq. 19 20 X. Public Hearing: Extension 21 6. HIMEJI, LLC. 1410-1418 Palisade Avenue, 22 Block 181, Lots 12, 13, 14 & 15. Resolution was 23 memorialized September 10th, 2009. First 24 extension Resolution was memorialized January 14, 25 2016. Applicants seeking one year extension.  4 1 A. Mulkay, Esq. 2 3 XI. Public Hearing: Extension 4 7. GBTC Properties, LLC, 1412-1414 New York 5 Avenue, Block 74, Lot 14. Resolution was 6 memorialized September 13, 2012. Applicants 7 seeking one year extension. 8 Guillermo J. Gonzalez, Esq. 9 10 XII. Public Hearing: 11 8. DDIS Union City, LLC, 717-719 Bergenline 12 Avenue, Block 35, Lot 7.01 & 8.01. Application 13 for certificate of prior non-conforming status 14 pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-68. Continuation. 15 Adjourned on 3-09-2017 & 4-06-2017. 16 Alampi & DeMarrais, Esq. 17 18 XIII. Public Hearing: 19 9. Palisade Emergency Residence 20 Corporation, 113 37th Street, Block 217, Lots 20, 21 21, 44 & 45. Proposed to subdivide existing Lot 22 44 to be subdivided into proposed Lot 44.01 and 23 remainder of Lot 44 to merge with existing Lot 45 24 to create proposed Lot 44.02 *Subdivision. 25 E. O’Connell, Esq.  5 1 2 XIV. Public Hearing: 3 10. Palisade Emergency Residence 4 Corporation, 113 37th Street, Block 217, Lots 20, 5 21, 44 & 45. Proposed the change of use 6 rehabilitation of the first floor from business 7 (thrift shop) to residential apartments and 8 renovation of the existing second floor 9 residential apartment and the basement will be 10 renovated and used as storage. * Site Plan. 11 E. O’Connell, Esq. 12 13 XV. Public Hearing: 14 11. New Cingular Wireless, PCS, LLC (AT&T) 15 3911 Kennedy Blvd., Block 262, Lot 1. Place 20 16 antennas and related equipment on the roof of the 17 above property. No housing units are proposed. 18 J. Fairweather, Esq. 19 20 XVI. Adoption of Resolutions: 21 1. 207 39th Street, LLC, 207 39th Street. 22 Block 227, Lot 16 & 17. Construct a new multi- 23 family structure, consisting of eight parking 24 spaces, five two bedrooms, one three bedrooms and 25 two studios.  6 1 2. Reino Magico, 701 Bergenline Avenue, 2 Block 35, Lot 1. Resolution was memorialized on 3 April 9, 2015. Applicants are seeking for one 4 year extension. 5 3. Palisade Emergency Residence 6 Corporation, 108 36th Street, Block 217, Lots 20, 7 21, 44 and 45. Residential Homeless Shelter 8 Dormitory.) 9 10 MR. PANEQUE: We have been waiting, with 11 the expectation that we may have another member 12 show up, but it’s now obvious that said member 13 cannot make it. 14 We only have three members here. We have a 15 Board that consists of seven members, so we would 16 need four, just to even open up the meeting. 17 Since we don’t have four members, and it’s 18 going to be five to seven, we’re just going to 19 carry all of the applications to the June 8th, Mr. 20 Vallejo? 21 THE SECRETARY: Yeah, June 8, Mr. Paneque. 22 MR. PANEQUE: June 8th meeting. 23 Okay. 24 No need to have any further notices. 25 Mr. Vallejo’s going to publish that all  7 1 applications are being carried to the June 8 th 2 meeting. 3 A VOICE: Very good. 4 MR. PANEQUE: Okay? Mr. Alampi, you want 5 to hand over your -- 6 MR. ALAMPI: Send them in. 7 MR. PANEQUE: You’ll send them in? Okay. 8 9 (Whereupon, the proceedings were concluded 10 at 6:54:55 p.m.) 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  8 1 STATE OF NEW JERSEY : 2 : 3 COUNTY OF ESSEX : 4 5 I, DEBRA A. KASZNIAK, assigned transcriber, 6 do hereby affirm that the foregoing is a true and 7 accurate transcript in the matter of the REGULAR 8 MEETING of the UNION CITY ZONING BOARD OF 9 ADJUSTMENT heard on Thursday, May 11, 2017 and 10 digitally recorded. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Monitored by: Kevin Dillon, Jr. 25 Proofread by: Deborah Dillon