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Neighbor urges board to keep synagogue entrance away from homes, citing night noise and privacy
Summary
A neighbor supported the renovation but asked the board to deny relocation of the main entrance toward residential backyards, citing noise, valet activity and late-night cleanup near windows less than 100 feet away.
Eliana Bednarsch, a member of the synagogue who lives at 77 Harlan Drive, voiced conditional support for the renovation but urged the board not to approve moving the main entrance to face residential backyards.
Bednarsch said the revised plan locates the primary pedestrian entrance across from her backyard and bedroom window—"approximately a 100 less than a 100 feet away"—and argued that relocation concentrates arrival, security checks, valet activity and vehicle noise directly across from homes. "This design places the most active high traffic point of the property directly across from a row of private homes," she said, and requested that the entrance remain on the building side that historically faced Daisy Farms Drive.
Applicant president Ari Weinberger responded that both the Daisy Farms and Harlan entrances are used and that added screening, a relocated layout and reduced on‑site tenting are intended to reduce negative externalities; he said loading and unloading would be routed through a loading dock and that large tent events will no longer be possible on the rebuilt site.
