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Keith Kaplan, Vice Chair
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IN THE MATTER OF THE APPEAL OF
Jonathan Satkowski
166 Circular Street
Saratoga Springs NY 12866
from the determination of the Building Inspector involving the premises at 166 Circular Street in the City of
Saratoga Springs,New York being tax parcel number 162.52-3-16 in the UR-3 district, on the Assessment Map
of said City.
The appellant having applied for an area variance under the Zoning Ordinance of said City to permit the
replacement of a 6 foot fence with an 8 foot fence in a UR-3 District and public notice having been duly given
of a hearing on said application held on the 8th and 22nd days of July 2019.
In consideration of the balance between benefit to the applicant with detriment to the health, safety and welfare
of the community, I move that the following area variance for the following amount of relief:
TYPE OF REQUIREMENT DISTRICT DIMENSIONAL PROPOSED RELIEF REQUESTED
REQUIREMENT
MAXIMUM HEIGHT OF FENCE IN 6' 8' 2'OR 25%
RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT
As per the submitted plans or lesser dimensions,be approved for the following reasons:
1. The applicants have demonstrated this benefit cannot be achieved by other means feasible to the applicants.
The applicants note that the fence is a cost effective and quick solution to privacy issues with their
neighbors who operate a busy transitional housing facility.
2. The applicants have demonstrated that granting this variance will not create an undesirable change in
neighborhood character or detriment to nearby properties. The proposed increase in the height of the
existing fence will provide greater privacy for the applicant and the neighboring property and will not affect
the character of the neighborhood.
3. The Board finds this variance to be substantial on a percentage basis; however the relief requested is only a
replacement of an existing residential fence with a commercial height fence, which mitigates the impact of
their substantiality in this case.
4. This variance will not have significant adverse physical or environmental effect on the neighborhood or
district, as the fence will only change slightly to the height of a commercial fence.
5. The alleged difficulty is self-created insofar as the applicant desires to replace the existing fence,but this is
not necessarily fatal to the application. The applicant considered other ways to provide the needed privacy,
such as planting shrubs and trees,but determined that would be too costly and take too much time.
Conditions:
• Any section of fence at an 8' height to be set back a minimum of 64' from the front property line, and be a
maximum length of 64'.
Adopted by the following vote:
AYES: 5 (K. Kaplan, S. Morris, J. Luhn, B. Gallagher, K. O'Connor)
NAYE S: 2 (B. Moore, C. Grey)
Dated: July 22, 2019
This variance shall expire 18 months following the filing date of such decision unless the necessary building
permit has been issued and actual construction begun as per 240-8.5.1.
I hereby certify the above to be a full,true and correct copy of a resolution duly adopted by the Zoning Board of
Appeals of the City of Saratoga Springs on the date above mentioned, five members of the Board being present.
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SIGNATURE: _ 4-s. __ 07/23/2019
CHAIR DATE RECEIVED BY ACCOUNTS DEPT.