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good evening everyone and
welcome to the zoning Board of
Appeals for
the town of Huntington for our
meeting of
AUGUST 13th, 2026, please rise
for
the Pledge of allegiance to our
flag.
I pledge allegiance. Yes. MR.
Ok Uh MR.
Justice Please be seated.
First item of business
is the minutes for AUGUST 6th.
2026. I've read them
made a correction and if there
are no
further corrections or additions
or deletions, I'll entertain a
motion to
accept the minutes for AUGUST 6,
2026. I'll make a motion, Mr
CHAIRMAN. MR. McGrath, on the
motion, MR. Castania on the 2nd
all
in favor all opposed. Minutes
are accepted. Thank you. Uh
dawn, are the appropriate
postings
and publications been done with
affidavit proof to give us
jurisdiction for our hearings
tonight.
Ok, thank you. The order of the
hearings tonight will be as
follows.
23 7 34.
800 Pulaski Road, Greenlawn, New
York.
23715. 7 Olympia Court in
East Northport, 2373518
Landing Road in Huntington.
23722 Three greystone Drive in
East Northport and finally
2373614 Wincott Drive in
Melville
Well, the applicant or the
representative of the
applicant for 23734.
800 Pulaski Road, please address
the board.
Hello. Um, so, uh, my name is
Deirdre McDermott. I'm Mary
McDermott is my mother
um, she's the owner of the
house. I am, I have trust of
the house. I also live at that,
um, address. 800
Pulaski Road. Um, and we're
looking to legalize
the existing shed that was
there when it was purchased my
parents purchased
it 23 years ago. So essentially
by with the, uh,
The real request, the bottom
line request
is that the, for accessory
buildings
the code allows 1200 square feet
and with the shed, you're up
to 1,462 square feet. So you're
looking
at 262 square feet variance just
to
maintain it 800 Pulaski Road has
been there for a long time. It's
a
corner plot. It's hard by
Minnicock and it's a it's a big
piece of property
more than 1 acre or 40. So is
there anyone in the audience
that wishes to be heard
regarding this application. I'm
expecting none and observing
none. Um, having said that
it's basically a de minimis type
of uh application I'll entertain
a motion to grant this
application first if I could
um, you have another accessory
structure there
There's no habitation. Nobody's
living it's completely down to
the studs, and you would agree
in our, our, it has, it just has
a snowblower, um, that kind of
stuff inside of it. It's
completely empty.
Thanks. I'm sorry. Ok, uh,
entertaining a motion to grant,
MR. Castagno
on the motion. MR. Campandao on
the 2nd, all in favor. Any
opposed
Good luck. Thank you very much.
Thank you so much. Well
the applicant or the
representative of the applicant
of 23715.
7 Olympia Court please address
the board. Hi
how are you? My name is we're
fine
You are Andrew James Andrew
Bentley. Uh,
Yes, Andrew James Bentley, yeah.
Good.
Uh, yes, my name is Andrew
Bentley
I'm here with my wife, Carrissa,
along with my three children,
Drea, Drew
and Demi. Um, Respectfully
requesting
an area variance that would
allow us to keep our existing
chicken coop in
its current location. Uh, we
understand that under town law,
the
board must be balanced the
benefit of granting the variants
to our family
against any potential detriment
to the health, safety, welfare,
and character
of the surrounding neighborhood.
We believe the facts and
evidence we are
presenting tonight demonstrate
the allowing the coup to remain
as reasonable
and consistent with those
considerations. A property
presents a unique challenge.
We live on a on a court. It's a
pie-shaped lot located in the
center and
are adjoined by 7 neighbors.
Because of that configuration,
there was no
practical location on our
property where the coup could
simply be relocated
and satisfy the requirement
required setbacks from all
surrounding properties.
We originally selected the
location, we were unaware of the
specific coupe
requirement. We thought we were
simply following the
requirements of a shed.
Uh, the coup is located 15 ft
off the property line, we
thought we were
in, um, Um, We're meeting the
requirements.
Um, we chose the, what we
believe to be the most discreet
and least
intrusive area of our yard. Once
we learned that the coup did not
meet the
required setbacks, we
immediately took the necessary
steps to address the
issue properly and apply for
this variance. A great deal of
thought and
care. Went into the construction
and maintenance of the coupe.
Uh, we have
3 kids. We were very concerned
about. Rodents and odor during
the town's inspection
we received positive feedback
regarding its condition and
quality
The inspectors both said that
they had never seen a coupe
built like this.
The coupe includes a
solar-powered exhaust system for
ventilation, as well
as a mini split heheheheheheheheniconditiom to help
regulate extreme
temperatures and prevent odors.
It's cleaned regularly and the
chicken's
feed is kept in a sealed
container inside of a, um,
storage bin to prevent
attracting rodents and other
pests. According to the
complaint registered
in the portal, uh, there were
concerns regarding pests that
have been raised
and the town came to our
property specifically to inspect
for the evidence of
pest activity and smell, none of
which were found. Believe the
actual conditions
observed during the inspection
are important when considering
whether the
coup has created an adverse
impact. Um, We'd also like to
provide some context regarding
the screening in this area.
There
were previously 3 mature trees
directly located on the side of
this.
Separating the coupe from the
adjoining property where the
complaint came. Those
trees were removed several years
ago by a tree cutting service
hired by
our adjoining neighbor without
our prior knowledge or
permission. Sent to
Tree cutting Service into our
yard, leveled those trees,
leaving us with
five-foot stumps that I then had
to pay to remove and grind out.
Those trees
would now be providing the
privacy that could be leading to
this complaint. Chicks
have also become something
meaningful to our family, our,
our children participate
in caring for them, feeding
them, collecting, and cleaning
the eggs and
learning the responsibility that
comes with caring for the
animals. It has
become both an educational and
rewarding experience for them.
And something
we genuinely enjoyed together as
a family. Most importantly,
we've made
every effort to ensure that
keeping these chickens does not
negatively affect
the people around us. Submitted
signed letters from our
neighbors who support
the coup. Um, have enjoyed our
eggs and have expressed that it
has not created
a problem or a nuisance for the
neighborhood. We understand why
setback
requirements exist and we
respect the town's regulations.
We're simply asking
the board to consider the
unusual configuration of our
property. The lack
of feasible alternative
locations, the condition and
maintenance of the
existing coupe. The town's
inspections finding no pest
infestation and the
support of our neighbors in the
actual impact the coup has had
on the surrounding
neighborhood. For, we
respectfully ask the board to
grant the requested
area bearance. Thank you. Ok.
Thank you, MR. Bentley. Is there
anyone in
the audience that wishes to be
heard regarding this
application. You MAY
step up. Good evening. Uh, my
name is Daniel Gorman. I am the
Southern southernly
neighbor of the property in
question, um, just a few points
I submitted
a pdf complaint via email as per
the hearing notice letter that I
received,
so I don't know if that gets
brought up during the discussion
as well, um,
but there's information on
there, um, in regards to the
comments made by
MR. Bentley, um. He references
that the coup was put up in a
fifteen-foot.
Um, distance from the property
line, but the notice hearing
that I received,
specifically says from my lot,
it's 7 ft and 13 ft
respectively, um, he
mentioned something about a tree
removal. Uh, that was done, I'm
assuming
by us on his property line. I'm
not aware of any service that we
hired to
have go over to his side that
would create a uh Cover for the
Said uh chicken
coop uh chicken uh chicken coop
uh chicken, um, and lastly
rodents and odor
that he mentioned. Um, he
specifically said in terms of
how it impacts his
children. I have children
myself. The odor and. Increase
in bugs and rodents
on our side of the fence because
of The chicken coop has become a
nuisance
which led to the initial
complaint in the first place.
Um, And
that's really all that I have to
say about it. We are on the
southerly side and
I believe. The coupe is actually
closer to our residential area
than any recreational area on
his side of the property.
Ok, thank you very much. Is
there anyone else who wishes to
be
heard regarding the application.
Go get that.
All right, observing you, do you
wish to
be heard? You might, you want to
address those comments.
So, this is the first time I'm
meeting him. Nice to meet
you. Um. I, I, I never received
a complaint from anybody
about these. Nobody told me
anything about rodents. Nobody
told me anything
about bugs. Nobody told me they
were cutting down trees, none of
that, um.
As far as the coup goes, it's 15
or 13 ft. I, I don't remember
off the top
of my head. The Coopers, that's
the coop, that's what the coop
distance
is. The run is 2x4s and chicken
wire that encapsulates that is
not the
solid structure that I'm
referring to. That that run is
the sloped, uh,
roof in the back there. Again,
as far as, um, Reconfiguring
that
that that is Easy enough to do.
I mean, it, but, again, this
thing is
directly next to my pool. We are
10 ft away from it, downhill.
Any smell, any rodent would be
in there. Town came
Again, said they had never seen,
never smelled anything. There
was
no signs of anything. Um, That's
all I really have in response to
that. No, no roosters out there,
right
No roosters. So at the time I
had the complaint, I
had 2 additional chickens. They
were hens. Polish hens. They
happen to be.
They squawk loud. I, I didn't
know. The Polish end were any
different than any
other ends, but uh. When the
complaints came in, all I could
think of is
that the neighbor might not have
liked the sound. I got rid of
those two
chickens. I thought this was
gonna go away after that. I've
since lost.
3 days' pay coming here to go to
court numerous times, spent
thousands of
dollars reserving my resurveying
my, my plot of land, sending
letters. In
addition to the tree stumps, I'm
I'm in quite a big hole here.
Thank you.
Ok, thank you, MR. Bentley. I'm
gonna close the hearing and
we'll reserve
decision on this matter. The
applicant or the representative
of the applicant
for? 23735, that'd be 18 Landing
Road, Huntington, please address
the board.
Good evening. Uh, my name is
John Stecker. I've been a
resident of my property, 18
Landing Road for
38 years now. When I first got
my deed for the property, one
of the specifics on this was
that there was no hog rendering
involved. I'm
not asking for that. All I'm
asking for is the fact I, I
built a retaining
wall on my property, and we have
a fence that my
neighbor requested he billed to
contain his dogs on his property
and it's within. It's, um,
Within 8
inches of what the required
setback of should be.
So, um, I'm requesting a
variance for the setback for the
fence to
be allowed. And also I have a
shed which is 4 inches from
the property line, I included
that in my request. So basically
the
two requests that you're
bringing before the board have
to do with
um, the shed, which is required
to be 2 ft off the property
linen
and you're 1.2 ft off the
property line. That's why you
mentioned the the
inches and the other one is, uh,
1.8
ft we're 2 ft are required as
well. That's, that's your
application, correct? Yes
correct. All right, is there
anyone in the audience that
wishes to be heard regarding
this matter on 18 Landing Road
in Huntington. Observing that no
one
wishes to be heard, I don't
intend your motion to grant this
application.
Thank you. MR. Basso, on the
motion. MR. Campadano on the
2nd. All in favor. Any opposed?
Your application is
granted. Well, the applicant or
the representative of the
applicant 423722.
Three Graystone Drive in
East Northport, please address
the board. Good evening
CHAIRMAN, Judge Asher, members
of the board for the appellants,
Tom Abadi,
a b b a t e. I'm an attorney
with offices at 88 Sunnyside
Boulevard in Plainview,
and this is a residential
application, which solely seeks
side yard setback relief
to erect additions to my
client's home in East Northport.
The
subject premises is 3 gray stone
Drive, and this is located just
east of
the intersection of Larkfield
Road and Clay Pitts Road. So if
you know where
the iga is. Are now the former
iga. This is just east. It's the
second right
off Clay Pitts, and the subject
premises is the first rate on
Greystone.
It's a very well maintained
property and house. It belongs
to my clients
Jacqueline and David Birnbaum,
and the idea here is to erect
additions to
the side and to the rear to
accommodate their growing
family. They've lived
here for over 10 years now and
they have 3 children ages 7, 10
and 12, but it's not solely to
accommodate. The growing family.
It's also
to accommodate Jacqueline's mom.
So a significant portion of
this undertaking is to, um,
include an accessory
apartment as part of the
additional construction. You
have
our plans for the accessory
apartment. They're drawn by our
project architect Louise Agnes,
and as you can see from those
plans, the
proposed accessory apartment
meets all the dimensional and
design
requirements to establish such a
use. What we do not conform to
is side
yard setback, and that's the
only form of relief we need
tonight. With
the r20 zone in which this
property lies, you have to hold
20 ft side
yard setback on each side with
an aggregate of 40. If this
proposal is
granted this evening, we will be
holding 15 ft on the south side,
so it's only
a 25% reduction from that
otherwise required
by code, notably, however, even
after construction. We will
still have
the minimum aggregate side yard
setback of 40 ft required
under 19855 of the code
Yes, we're going to the rear,
but if you look at
a lot, you can see how deep it
is even after construction,
we'll
have more than double the
minimum rear yard setback
required of the r20, which
is 50 ft, and we are not going
any closer to grays Greystone
Drive than
the house already does. From a
practical perspective, that the
house
is presently enclosed on three
sides by a 6 ft high white pvc
fence that will remain,
especially on the south side
where we are closest
to our most affected neighbor,
and with respect to that
neighbor, David
Birnbaum, um, Consulted with him
and talked to him about the
project and
he said he has no problems with
the proposal whatsoever. That's
our case.
Thank you, MR. Abadi. Um, that
was going to be my question
whether
or not the the neighbor directly
to the south was in favor of
the project or not, and you've
answered that question that he
is
uh, it appears in the in the
publication of the
legal notice there, there is an
indication that the
combined with of side yard is 37
ft, we're 40 ft is required. Is
that, is
that, are you still requesting
that variance? No, we don't need
that. We
don't need that. No, because we
have excess um on the north side
of 26 ft.
So, so if you add the two that
was my question I wanted to make
sure that since the, the legal
notice on the documents that
were presented
to me indicates that that was
part of the, part of the
request, but basically
you're just asking for a side
yard variance now, not the
aggregate, MR.
Wheeder likes to make fun of me
because I can't do math, but 26
and 1541,
right? So we're in excess of 40,
ok. I had to use a calculator
for that,
Frank. Is there anyone in the
audience that wishes to be heard
regarding
this application. Observing that
no one wishes to be heard and
they and
then in effect the application
is amended to just be the side
yard variant
on the southerly side. I will
entertain a motion to grant. MR.
Castagno,
on the motion, MR. White on the
2nd, all in favor? Any opposed?
Application
is granted. Good luck with the
construction for your clients
you all so
much. Good night. The applicant
or the representative of the
applicant for 23736
That's 14 Wincott Drive, please
address the board.
Good evening, Diana Lespisa with
Moreno Expediting Services
po Box 39, Bethpage, New York,
11714 here
on behalf of the property owner.
ok.
Good evening Good, tell us your
application. So good
evening, CHAIRMAN, members of
the board. The applicant
is proposing to construct a
2-story addition, a one-story
attached garage addition and a
rear covered patio. The property
is
located in the r40 zoning
district, which requires a
minimum side
yard setback of 25 ft, a minimum
aggregate side yard setback
of 50 ft and permits a maximum
of 3 garage spaces
The application requests relief
to permit. Minimum side yard
setback
of 14 ft, an aggregate side yard
of
39.8 and additional garage space
that is technically
capable of accommodating 4
vehicles. Although the existing
garage is classified as a
two-car attached garage. It it
is
really undersized and does not
function as a practical
two-car garage. The available
space is too narrow to
comfortably park two vehicles
while allowing them to enter and
exit their
cars and maneuver. Maneuver
within the garage. In addition,
the interior stairs
leading into the home further
reduce the usable floor area
As a result, the garage has
functioned really primarily as a
one car
garage with the remaining space
being used for bicycles,
children's outdoor toys
seasonal items, and general
household storage. The
proposed garage addition is
intended to provide functional
garage space. The Levine family
owns 3
only owns 3 vehicles and MR.
It's MR. Levine's car
his truck, and MRS. Levine's
car. Their goal is simply to
park 2 vehicles indoor
while maintaining adequate space
for lawn equipment
a snowblower, tools, and other
household storage
In practice, this addition would
sort of create a his and hers
type
garage with the new person, so.
Surveying more of MR. Levine's
vehicles and
related storage needs workbench,
tool area. The proposed
addition will increase the total
garage area to approximately 900
Actually, it's not
approximately, it's 933 square
feet
um, while it's technically
exceeds the code's limitation on
garage capacity, the layout
dimensions and placement of the
garage doors
make it impractical to
accommodate 4 vehicles, and the
additional space
is intended to improve the
functionality rather than
increase the
vehicle storage. The garage
addition will remain one. Story
in height and it
is strategically located to, uh,
incorporate the
pool area and create a covered
outdoor seating area. And
furthermore, the
addition will be substantially
screened from the neighboring
property to
the east with existing mature
veg, uh, vegetation and it'll
minimize any visual
impact on any of the surrounding
properties. We did have, um, one
of the
neighbors to the east, which
would be the neighbor most
affected, um, an
architect had reached out to me
that they work with. Inquiring
about the
project and they asked for some
more information. I forwarded
them the plans,
and I had asked them if there
was any concerns from the
neighbor to make
sure that they speak with MR.
Levine or contact my offer
again, uh, or my
office again. And, um, they
didn't reach out to my office.
MR. Levine did
confront him and they had no
objections. They said they just
didn't, you
know, I guess they didn't go on
the portal and look at the plan.
Ok, thank
you very much for your
presentation. Is there anyone in
the audience that
wishes to be heard regarding
23736. Observing that no one
wishes to be heard.
Essentially your request is 14
ft 14.1 ft actually on the side
yard with 25
is required to combined with the
setback is normally 50 ft.
You're You're, it's
gonna show 39.8 ft and finally,
you're asking for one
extra space, which, um, you
have. Three
bays we use is usually permitted
in our 40 and
you're looking for a 4th bay and
you've explained that one of the
bays is essentially not able to
be used for
car use, but for storage anyway.
That's
essentially the application,
correct? Yeah, just one thing to
correct, it's
actually only 2 bays. It's like
a 1 1/2 bay and 1/2. So that's
why
it's hard to park the 4 vehicles
because you'd have to pull in,
maneuver
and just trying to make sure
that we get at least I just
wanted to make
sure that because I know Bay is
a big, a big thing here I
understand your
application. You just want to be
certain that we, we grant the
app, we grant
what the relief that you need.
So having said all that, I'll
entertain a
motion to grant the application.
MR. Camppadano, on the motion,
MR. Castagna
on the 2nd. All in favor. Any
opposed? Your application is
granted. Good
luck with all the construction.
Thank you. Have a good night. Mr
Bennett, do we have any other,
other business tonight
CHAIRMAN. We do not. Ok, thank
you very much, everyone
for your participation, uh, we
will be adjourned in our next,
the next meeting of
the zoning Board of Appeals will
be on SEPTEMBER
3rd, uh, 2026, 2 weeks from