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Online Form Submittal: Land Use Board Agenda Public Comment
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Subject : Online Form Submittal: Land Use Board
Agenda Public Comment
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Land Use Board Agenda Public Comment
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be added to the project file in the Planning Department.
Land Use Board Zoning Board of Appeals
Name Robert Krygowski
Email Address rkrygowski@amsterdamfd.com
Business Name Field not completed.
Address 9 Hyde St
Clty Saratoga Springs
State New York
Zip Code 12866
Phone Number 5183343218
Project Name 199 W. Circular Area Variance
Project Number Field not completed.
Project Address 199 W. Circular
Comments My wife and I live at 9 Hyde St, directly adjacent to 199 W
Circular. I am writing to express my opposition to any variance
being issued at the moment as we are currently experiencing
on-going property damage to our home due to water drainage
issues being caused by changes that were made within the last
five years to the property at 199 W. Circular. When the property
at 199 W. Circular was subdivided a number of years ago and it
became a substandard lot (5500 sq ft), there was a stipulation
in the property division plans to add proper drainage to 199 W.
Circular to account for the increase of the elevation planned for
the newly created lot at 201 W Circular. The required drainage
was not completed and I believe that the elevation of land that
occurred at 199 W Circular was not in any approved plan.
Further adding to the water drainage problem, gutters were
added to the house at 199 W Circular just prior to the house
being listed for sale in 2020. Now, all the water from the west
side of the house is shedding through these gutters and
directed, via 4 inch corrugated pipe, toward the end driveway,
which itself has a downward slope from street level. Whenever
there is significant rain in the summer, water pools at the end of
the driveway and, with nowhere else to go, it drains onto our
side yard and has been rapidly deteriorating the foundation of
our house. While already a severe matter in the summer, the
problem increases exponentially in the winter when the ground
is frozen and none of the water can seep into it. In 2018, after I
first noticed what I thought to be mortar dust in the basement, I
mentioned to the previous owner that the elevation of the land
was creating an issue for my property. Nothing was done and
the problem has continued to worsen.
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