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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCorrespondence - 1659 OSGOOD STREET 9/22/2004 , NORTH Town of North Andover pf`4��io ;�1tip Office of the Director Fa Community Development and Services Division * 1 , 27 Charles Street •.'S RA110��,`�5 North Andover, Massachusetts 01845 SA H Telephone (978)688-953-1 Di0sion Director Fax (978) 688-9542 Heidi Griffin September 22,2004 Mr. Tyler Munroe 1635 Osgood Street North Andover,MA 01845 J RE: 1659 Osgood St. Dear Mr. Munroe: At the regularly scheduled Planning Board meeting on September 21,2004,the Planning Board voted unanimously to grant a waiver from the requirements of Section 8.3.2 of the North Andover Zoning Bylaw in order to allow the demolition of existing 2 stall garage and mudroom and reconstruction of a new 3 stall garage according to the specifications and plan and letter of 9/12/2004. The proposed garage will offer parking space for equipment to be housed at 1659 Osgood Street. Please note that granting of this site plan waiver does not preclude you from needing to file for applicable relief from the Zoning Board of Appeals as indicated in your building permit denial form issued by Michael McGuire, Local Building Inspector. The Board voted unanimously to grant a waiver from the Site Plan requirements. If you have any questions,please feel free to contact me. Sincerely, eidi Griffin;Director Community Development and Services ml/SitePlanWaiver BOARD OF AITEALS 688-9541 BUILDING 688-9545 CONSERVATION 688-9530 11E.ALT11 688)540 PLANNING 688)535 ,fi To: North Andover Planning Board From: Tyler and Kris Munroe. 100 Foster Street No. Andover, Mass. F P f ma Re: Site Plan Review 1659 Osgood Street. I A'NlOf' Date: 9/12/2004 Dear Planning Board Members, My name is Tyler Munroe, I have lived in North Andover for my whole life 44 years) and have run a Landscaping business here for 22 years. I currently own two pieces of commercial property on Osgood Street, # 1635 which I have owned for seven years and 4 1659 whicb lbave owned for 2 years, The two properties are adjacent to one another and both of the properties are in the Industrial S zone which provides the proper zoning for me to run my business. Fortunately, both properties had existing residential houses on them when I purchased them allowing me to get some income from the properties. Unfortunately the existing properties pose a problem to me when I have to perform business at these locations. Six years ago I built a commercial garage at 1635 Osgood Street to house my business. This property had an existing 3 family house on it at the time. The garage I built was 2400sT and it required me to go through the Zoning Board of Appeals and the Site Plan Review Process. I gracefully went through both of the processes doing all I was required to do by the boards. The process took me a year to complete and cost me a lot of money to do so. I was self educated in the process to the point of saying I should have built a garage under 2000 s.f to get away from all this. I fully understand and respect the Site Plan Review process for the larger projects, but it cost so much in engineering and execution of the engineering it is not practical for a small guy like me. All that being said, now to the real reason for my letter. I have applied to obtain a building permit to remove the existing three stall garage attached to the main house and construct a 1944 s.f. Morton Building Utility Building at the property located a 1659 Osgood Street. I have been denied. Being that the property has two residences which were existing on it and being that it is currently in the Industrial S zone I fully expected to be denied and fully expected to have to go through the Zoning Board of appeals on the basis of existing non conforming circumstances on the property. I have filed for this. Also on my denial from the Building Inspector it states that I have to go to the Planning Board for Site Plan Review due to change in use of the lot. I would like to ask the board for relief from this process on this lot. As I stated earlier in this letter I have gotten myself educated enough to do whatever I can to never go through it again at my level. I purposely kept the building under 2000 s.f. for this reason. Originally I had wanted to connect the building to the existing house, but I rethought this in an effort to not have to go through Site Plan Review. The building I'm trying to build would be a Utility building to house my equipment and supplies, this is what the current use of the existing three stall garage is. The business operations would remain primarily at the adjacent property at 1635 Osgood Street. The building would be in a Vermont barn style to complement the existing farm house and carriage house on the property. The lot currently has two driveways on it and a clear spot which I currently store equipment and supplies on. The property is 1.94 acres and is zoned Industrial S which supports a contractors yard. The space is and will be used mainly for storage of supplies and equipment currently not in use, there will be no day to day business operations or regular in and out traffic during the day. The current use of the property is in perfect harmony with the surrounding area. All of the driveway areas are not paved and I have no intention of paving them in the future. There is no need for additional parking spaces on the property and the storm water runoff would not be increased at all. There is no need to remove any trees on the property to complete this project. The existing garage is in bad shape and needs so much work it is not worth fixing it. As you can see in my pictures I have a plan to make the new building enhance the property past what it currently is. I would like to ask the board for a waiver from the Site Plan review process on this property. I feel the building I'm proposing is not a change of use for the property since it is and had been used for the same uses prior to my constructing this building. The property is properly zoned for the uses and the new building would enhance the property greatly. This is not a full blown attempt to construct a commercial building with day to day business operations which completely changes the use of the property. The adjacent property at 1635 Osgood Street is my true commercial space. I feel I have made every effort to keep the building the size and style which should keep me out of Site Plan Review and have also made the building enhance the beauty of the existing property. In fact if I were made to conform to the same procedures as the garage on the adjacent property, the process of Site Plan Review and its requirements would in fact be the major factors which would most change the current use and appearance of the existing lot as it now stands. Please consider me for the waiver form the Site Plan Process on this property. Thank You Jer�Munroe