With a request for no fewer than 23 reasons to differ from the law, Kalian Management LLC will be at the Thursday (September 5) meeting of the Atlantic Highlands Planning Board seeking the variances to permit construction of five houses on an empty lot.
The Kalian firm, located on Hennessey Boulevard., the firm which also constructed the apartments on First Avenue, is seeking variances for property for which it is the contract purchaser that is the former home of the Masonic Hall at 14 East Garfield Avenue.
The application, which is listed last on the agenda for Thursday’s regular meeting, is seeking variance for minimum lot frontage, minimum lot width, minimum side setbacks and minimum total side setback for each of the three residential buildings they plan to build and sell. Minimum lot frontage under borough regulations is 75 foot, whereas the developers are seeking frontages between 52 and 56 feet.
In the application, Rick Brodsky, attorney for Kalian Management, indicated the company is seeking the variances so that it will have “no negative impact on the zone plan, ordinance or public good.”
The property currently includes a one and a half story dwelling and shed used as a non-profit Masonic lodge. And the subdivision would recreate five non-conforming lots for five single family homes.
A full description of the variances sought and the information which has already been submitted to the borough and reviewed by the borough engineer is included on the borough’s website at www.AHNJ.com under the Planning Board agenda for the meeting.
Also included in the nine-page letter from planning board engineer Doug Rohmeyer, CFM, after his review of the application.
In addition to numerous recommendations the applicant should follow before approval is given, Rohmeyer said the applicant should specifically address the planned removal of the trees that provide a buffer to the adjacent property and any trees to be removed adjacent to East Garfield Avenue.
