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Hopatcong board delays boathouse hearing for 8 Alameda Avenue after new variances and neighbor talks
Summary
The Hopatcong Land Use Board voted to carry an application for a proposed boathouse at 8 Alameda Avenue (Block 31603, Lots 1 and 8) to allow the applicant time to reduce recently disclosed variances and continue settlement talks with the ECCO Homeowners Association.
The Hopatcong Land Use Board on Tuesday carried for further notice an application for a proposed boathouse at 8 Alameda Avenue, Block 31603, Lots 1 and 8, after the applicant’s attorney said new variances were added and negotiations with a homeowners association were ongoing.
The attorney for the applicant told the board that correspondence from Attorney McGovern, who represents ECCO Homeowners Association, remains unresolved and that any approval would need to be conditioned on a settlement between the applicant and ECCO. The attorney said additional variances provided to the applicant by Mr. Donegan (spelled in the record variously) increased the scope of relief being sought and asked the board to carry the matter so the application could be revised and properly noticed.
“That issue aside … the lake is everyone’s. We want everybody to be able to use it, and we believe that there is some common ground,” the attorney said, adding the applicant would try to reduce variances before the next hearing.
Board members moved and seconded a motion to carry the application with notice. The board recorded a unanimous roll-call vote in favor of carrying the application. The roll call on the record showed the following members voting yes: Mister Schorlette; Mister Dimon; Mister Kimek; Miss Crock; Mister Mazelewski; Miss Snow; Mister Taylor; and Mayor Galatnik.
The board and the applicant agreed to return on the calendar for a future meeting (the applicant and board discussed March 18 as the likely date for the continued hearing). The attorney and staff confirmed that newly added variances must be noticed to the public.
A member of the public who said they live adjacent to the property asked the board to examine a right-of-way on the applicant’s route to the lake; the board and applicant’s representative said they would follow up and encouraged off-record communications before the continued hearing.
No final variance approvals or denials were made at the meeting; the item was postponed for the applicant to revise plans, notice any new variances and continue settlement discussions with the ECCO Homeowners Association.
Outgoing procedural items at the meeting included postponement of minutes and routine motions to pay bills.
