Meeting Overview

TOWN  OF ORANGETOWN   ARCHITECTURE   AND COMMUNITY  APPEARANCE BOARD OF REVIEW – MEETING OF MAY 21,  2015

 

MEMBERS PRESENT: Jill Fieldstein,    Chairperson;    Blythe Yost,  Vice  Chairperson,

Andrew  Andrews,  Brian   Terry,   and Paul Papay, aye,  and

Deborah  Stuhlweissenburg

 

 

MEMBERS  ABSENT:    None

 

 

ALSO  PRESENT:  Rickard  Pakola,  Deputy Town Attorney;   Ann Marie Ambrose, Stenographer  and Cheryl  Coopersmith,   Chief Clerk

 

Jill   Fieldstein,    Chairperson,    called the meeting  to order at 7:30   p.m.

Ms Fieldstein  read the agenda.    Hearings  as listed  on this meeting’s   agenda which  are made a part of these  minutes were held as noted below.

 

Neo  Neo Sculpture    Site Plan

Review of Sculpture  Site Plan

183 Oak Tree  Road,  Tappan

77.15/1/32;    LIO zoning  district

 

Approved

As Presented

ACABOR  #15-26

 

Neo Neo Gate Plan

Review  of Driveway  Gate Plan

183   Oak Tree Road,   Tappan

77.15/1/32;     LIO zoning district

 

Approved

As Presented

ACABOR  #15-27

 

 

 

 

A motion was made to adjourn  the meeting  by Jill   Fieldstein    and  seconded  by Blythe Yost and agreed  by all  in attendance.    The  Decisions   on the above hearings,    which  Decisions    are made by the Board before the conclusion  of the meeting,  are mailed  to the applicant.     The verbatim  minutes  are not transcribed, but are available.    As there was no further  business   before the  Board,   the meeting was adjourned  at 7:45 p.m.   The next ACABOR  Meeting  is  scheduled

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ACABOR  #15-26:   Neo  Neo  Sculpture   Site  Plan  – Approved  As  Presented Town   of  Orangetown   –  Architecture   and  Community    Appearance   Board   of Review   Decision

May21,2015

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TO:

 

FROM:

Walter Aurel!,  171 Kings Highway, Orangeburg, New York,  10962

Architecture and Community  Appearance  Board of Review

 

 

RE:               Neo  Neo Sculpture Site Plan:  Application of Walter Aurell,

applicant,  for Sean Scully, owner,  for the review of a sculpture site plan at a site

known as “Neo Neo Sculpture Site Plan“,  in accordance with Article 16 of the Town Law of the State of New York and Chapter 2 of the Code of the Town of Orangetown.   The site is  located at 183  Oak Tree Road,  Tappan,   Town of Orangetown,  Rockland  County, New York,  and  as shown  on the Orangetown Tax Map as Section 77.15,   Block 1,     Lot 32;  in the LIO zoning district.

 

 

Heard by the Architecture and Community Appearance Board of Review  of the Town of Orangetown at a meeting held Thursday, May 21,  2015,  at which time the Board made the following  determinations:

 

Walter Aurell  appeared  and testified.   The Board received  the following  items:

 

1. Site Plan & Erosion,  Sheet 1   of 2, prepared  by John A. Loch,  P.E.,  PLS dated

August  8, 2013,  last  revision   date of March  17,  2014.

 

1. Elevations, A 105  prepared   by Colgan  Perry Lawler Aurel I  Architects dated

June 19, 2013,   last revision  date of August  30,  2013.

 

2. Neo Neo Sculpture, China Piled Up –  Perspective 1   and Perspective  2.

 

2015. Copy of the Building Permit Referral, dated April 4, 2015.

 

1. E. Board Decision  ACABOR #13-55,    Artist Studio,  Approved as Presented, dated  November 7,  2013

 

FINDINGS  OF FACT:

 

1. The Board found  that the sculpture would be placed  on an existing meadow in front of a building  used as an art studio.

 

2. 2. The Board  found  that the  sculpture would  be constructed  of Carten (rusted)  steel tube stock.  The sculpture would sit on a gravel  bed, approximately   15  feet away from the parking area.

 

3. The Board found that the sculpture would measure  approximately   50 feet by 20 feet wide  by 12 feet high,  with an open appearance,   as noted in the submitted  handout  entitled  “China  Piled Up –  Perspective   1   and Perspective  2.”

 

The hearing  was then opened  to the Public.   There  being no one  to be heard from the public,  the Public Hearing  portion of the meeting was closed.

 

DECISION:    In view of the foregoing  and the testimony  before the Board, the application   was APPROVED   AS PRESENTED.                                          -l         S   6

 

The foregoing  resolution   was presented  and  moved  by Blythe  Yost an~        ~     ~

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ACABOR  #15-27:    Neo  Neo  Gate   Plan  – Approved  As  Presented

Town   of Orangetown   –  Architecture   and  Community  Appearance  Board   of

Review  Decision

May  21,  2015

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TO:

 

FROM:

Walter Aurell,   171 Kings Highway,  Orangeburg, New York, 10962

Architecture  and Community Appearance Board of Review

 

 

RE:                Neo  Neo Gate Plan:  Application   of Walter Aurell,  applicant,  for Sean  Scully,  owner,  for the review of a gate plan at a site  known as “Neo Neo Gate Plan”,  in accordance with Article 16 of the Town Law of the State of New York and Chapter  2 of the Code of the Town of Orangetown.   The site is located at 183  Oak Tree Road,  Tappan,   Town of Orangetown,  Rockland County,  New York,  and as shown  on the Orangetown Tax Map as Section  77.15,  Block  1,    Lot

32;  in the LIO zoning district.

 

 

Heard by the Architecture   and Community Appearance Board of Review of the Town of Orangetown at a meeting held  Thursday, May 21, 2015,  at which  time the Board  made  the following determinations:

 

Walter Aurell  appeared and testified.   The Board  received  the following  items:

 

1. Site Plan & Erosion, Sheet 1   of 2,  prepared  by John A.  Loch,  P.E.,   PLS dated

August  8,  2013,  last revision date of March 17,  2014.

 

1. B. Elevations,  A 105 prepared   by Colgan   Perry Lawler Aurel I   Architects  dated

June 19,  2013, last revision   date of August  30,  2013.

 

1. Neo Neo 183 Oak Tree Road Driveway Gate Plan.

 

2015. D. Copy of the Building Permit  Referral,   dated  April  6, 20

 

1. E. Board Decision ACABOR #13-55,   Artist Studio,  Approved  as Presented, dated  November   7, 2013

 

FINDINGS  OF FACT:

 

1. The Board found that the  applicant   proposed  a sliding  driveway gate that would   measure 4.5 feet in height  by 25 feet in  length.   The gate would cross the driveway as noted on the submitted Site Plan.

 

2. 2. The Board found that the gate would  match  in material,   color  and style with the exiting fence at the rear of the site,  charcoal   stee

 

3. The Board found that the gate would operate on motorized metal  wheels, thereby not creating  any type of noise  disturbance  to the neighboring properties.

 

DECISION:   In view of the foregoing and the testimony   before the Board,  the application  was APPROVED  AS PRESENTED.

 

The foregoing resolution  was presented and  moved by Jill  Fieldstein   and seconded  by Brian  Terry and  carried  as follows:  Jill  Fieldstein,    Chairperson,   aye; Blythe  Yost,  aye;  Andrew  Andrews, aye; Brian  Terry, aye; Paul Papay,   aye and Deborah   Stuhlweissenburg,   aye.

 

The Clerk  to the Board is  hereby  authorized,   directed   and  empowered   to sign this Decision   and  file  a certified   copy in  the Office of the Town Clerk  and the Office of the Architecture   and Community Appearance   Board of Review.

 

 

Dated:May21,2015                  ~                                ~~

Cheryl Coopersmith,   Chief  Clerk  Boards  and Commissions

 

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