The Clifton Zoning Board of Adjustment voted 7-0 on Sept. 17, 2025, to approve bulk variances for a house at 14 Alvin Court, permitting a 21.7-foot front-yard setback where 25 feet is required and 32.8% lot coverage where 27% is allowed. The board also ruled the revised plans removed the need for a variance for a two-and-a-half‑story condition by eliminating dormers, leaving only the two variances requested.

The board’s decision followed testimony from the applicant’s attorney, Dominic Iannarella, who told the board the new plans “shed that one variance” by removing the dormers so the structure is now two stories. Mr. Iannarella asked the board to treat the revised plans as a material change from the prior application; the board agreed that a prior-cases rule (referred to in the hearing as Resideo de Cata) did not bar consideration of the amended application. A motion to hear the revised application passed 7-0.

Nut graf: The applicant revised the design to eliminate a height-related variance and sought only the front-yard and lot-coverage variances; the board approved both after considering the amended plans and finding the remaining requests consistent with the application on the table.

Board discussion and action: After the legal and factual record was presented, Commissioner O'Connor moved to approve the application; Commissioner Eisenman seconded. Roll-call votes recorded Commissioners Perez, Roble, Braid, O'Connor, Fucas, Vice Chair Molnar and Chairman Zucchino as voting yes, and the motion carried 7-0. The board’s minutes state that the applicant must follow the approved plans as submitted.

Discussion vs. decision: Board members asked clarifying questions but raised no formal conditions beyond standard requirement that the approved plans be the ones the applicant must follow for permits. The record shows no evidence the board imposed additional conditions or referrals; the approval was a formal vote to grant the two variances on the revised plan.

Clarifying details: The variances granted were specifically a front-yard setback of 21.7 feet (25 feet required) and a lot coverage of 32.8% (27% allowed). The applicant’s change removed dormers that had previously made the structure a two-and-a-half‑story building and thus removed the need for a variance for that condition. The transcript indicates the applicant’s attorney asked the board to treat the revised plans as a material change and the board accepted that position.

Ending: The applicant will proceed under the approved plans; the board noted that appeals or requests for a different design would require a new application or formal appeal procedures available through the zoning officer as described at the outset of the meeting.