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-?. . . ,_.. ? ? .. _ ?. .,. - <br />Regular Council Meeting <br />7/17/95 <br />Page 5 <br />If you want to talk about anyone changing what is going on, Mrs. Nassief said she <br />believes it is with the Building Department. We are trying to pretend that this lot <br />split doesn't happen. <br />Mayor Rinker said this has been a conscientious effort to try to deal with a difficult <br />situation. To say that it is a game does not advance any positive discussion. Mr. . <br />Samac, the Law Director, he and Council have tried to work with this. <br />Mr. Sobel, 837 Beech Hill Road said he bought his lot in 1971. At the time, he knew <br />there was property behind him. He saw a sketch and knew there was a strip that <br />came through to Beech Hill. His perception, which now turns to be faulty, was that <br />someday he would have a neighbor behind him (that is fine.) But, the driveway <br />that existed at that time was on Wilson Mills. So, his perception was that somebody <br />would build, they would enter from Wilson Mills and be far enough from him and <br />his other neighbors and buffered by the trees. He agrees that somebody has a <br />property and has a right to build. Why change the driveway after all these years? <br />He also noted at the time this peculiar zoning which did give this strip from what is <br />now E to Beech Hill. He wondered at the time if that would be the kind of zoning <br />Director <br />was saying that to build a development in that fashion was not supportive. What <br />has changed the discussion is the fact that we are talking about one buildable lot <br />under our code but to have access to a dedicated street and there is frontage. Mayor <br />Rinker said Mr. Koren did not own the property at the time it was zoned. Whatever <br />political favoritism that may or may not have been done, it is legally titled that way <br />and he is not sure we could even interfere with it. <br />time for a person who was a political figure in this community. To do what is <br />proposed now is to further build on that kind of very favored zoning that was <br />thMaat yor the Rin averakerge said the citizen diff could erence get-, - or and was this thhat as some been kind critical of -- fis thatavored the zoning Law at the <br />given. Mr. Sobel thought he -came to a meeting where you kidded us why were we <br />there--that Mr. Diemert had ruled his proposal was illegal. <br />Mr. Sobel said he is not speaking about Mr. Koren at all. He thought the basis of Mr. <br />Diemert's ruling was the frontage. There is no frontage unless you let D and E be <br />reconfigured. There is no frontage on Beech Hill without you allowing that <br />reconfiguring. He heard Mr. Schulte before say that 40' for the house, 20' for the <br />driveway. The driveway from the drawing he saw runs parallel to the back of our <br />lots 20'. Somebody could come in, on this proposal, and come 20' from us and then <br />turn to the east into a house. Where is this person's setback from a dedicated street-- <br />he does not see it. He thinks he heard a member of Planning and Zoning say that <br />you can't please everybody. You are trying to please one property owner at the