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ZBA grants Diaz family variance for attached garage and mudroom at 10 Maple Court
Summary
The Zoning Board of Appeals approved a variance allowing an attached one-car garage and mudroom addition at 10 Maple Court, finding the requested 2.33-foot side-yard relief and a 66.68-square-foot gross-floor-area increase would not alter neighborhood character.
The Rye Brook Zoning Board of Appeals on May 6 provisionally granted Felix and Jocelyn Diaz variances to construct an attached garage and mudroom addition at 10 Maple Court, allowing a reduced single-side-yard setback and a modest increase in allowable gross floor area.
Architect Fred Crippi of RMG Associates told the board the existing house lacks storage, a garage and a laundry area; the proposed one-car garage (approximately 11 feet wide exterior) and mudroom would create necessary storage and functional living space. Crippi said site constraints leave the right side of the house as the only feasible location for the garage, and that the design was kept minimal so as not to exceed the neighborhood's scale unnecessarily.
The application requested relief from the minimum single side-yard setback (10 feet required; proposed 7.77 feet, variance of 2.33 feet) and from the gross floor area cap (maximum allowable 2,791.3 square feet; proposed 2,858 square feet, variance 66.68 square feet). The board applied the five variance factors and concluded the addition would not adversely affect neighborhood character or local environmental conditions. Members described the relief as modest relative to the neighborhood context and that aesthetic design choices minimized visual impact.
The board's resolution requires payment of all application and consultant fees before permits or certificates of occupancy are issued and notes the action is a SEQRA Type II. The motion to grant the requested variances passed unanimously, five yes to zero nays. The property is listed in the resolution as parcel ID 135.6-1-72.
