TOWN OF GORHAM
BOARD OF APPEALS
NOTICE OF MEETING
JANUARY 19, 2006
The Gorham Board of Appeals will hold its regular meeting on January 19, 2006 at 7:00 p.m. at the Gorham High School Auditorium to consider the following;
A. Acceptance of the December 15, 2005 meeting minutes as printed and distributed.
B. Appeal # 06-198. The appeal of Gorham House of Pizza, Angelo Sotiropoulos, requesting a permit to remove an existing nonconforming deck attached to a commercial building and replace it with a 8 foot by 18 foot building addition that would house a new walk-in cooler on property he owns at 2 State Street (Map 102, Lot 27) which is in the Village Centers District and will not encroach any further into any required setbacks.
Appeal # 06-199. The appeal of Ben Vacchiano, Personal Representative for the Estate of Augustine Vacchiano. The applicant owns property on George Street that prior to the 1972 Zoning Ordinance consisted of 4 lots that are now substandard per the currant Ordinance. There is a home on the lot and the Town Attorney advises that whereas common ownership is involved, the lots are all merged into one lot. The applicant would like to divide the lot and provide frontage for a proposed Planning Board approved private way. This would require two variances, one a 15,960 square foot area variance for the new lot and second, a 7 foot setback variance for the existing home from the proposed private way on property he owns at 14 George Street (Map 89, Lot 18, 21) which is in the Suburban
Residential District.
Appeal #06-200. The Appeal of the Town of Gorham Recreation Department. The applicant wishes to remove an existing 14 foot by 16 foot building with an attached 6 foot by 6 foot porch and replace it with the same size building, relocating the porch from the front to the side. The existing building is 25 feet from the high water line of the Presumscot River and the new replacement would be 35 feet from the high water mark. The applicant therefore seeks permission to replace and relocate (further from the water) a nonconforming structure on property the Town owns at 55 Partridge Lane (Map 72, Lot 20.1) which is in the Rural/Shoreland Zoning/Resource Protection Zones.
Appeal # 06-201. The appeal of Loren Goodridge. The applicant wishes to demolish an existing building on a small (.24 acres) lot located in the Urban Commercial zone and build a new building that would house a Subway sandwich shop. The code does not allow parking in the front yard setback (or side, or rear yard) which sue to the lot size would not allow the required number of parking spaces without encroachment into front and side yard setbacks. They therefore seek variances for side yard parking from the required 10 feet to 1 foot and for front yard parking from 25 feet to 5 feet allowing 3 spaces in front of the building where pavement currently exists on property he has contracted to purchase at 109 Main Street (Map 102, Lot 153) which is located in the Urban Commercial
District.
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