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MINUTES OF ZONING BOARD OFAPPEALS MEETING HELD JUL Y 6~ 1999 Present: Susan Hodge, Chair, Lloyd Frink, Vice Chair, Bob Morris, and Lou Viglotti, Village Attorney Absent.- Harry Greco and Bob Lewis Others Present: Laurie Gruendle Helen Erich'on Armand Alfonso Trustee Davis Tom Visentin Alan Gruenxlle Mayor Belding Mike Del Vescovi Pat Cardenia Meeting was called to order at 7:32 p.m. . ,I~, , ,URIE GR UENDL E~ 90 EAST MAIN STREET First on the agenda was the application of Laurie Gruendle seeking a variance to be able to have a day care center (before and after school care and full days on vacation) at 90 East Main Street which is located in an OB zone. Ms. Hodge read the legal notice which was published in the June 25, 1999 edition of the Poughkeepsie Journal, Applicant presented, for the record the legal notice notification to the neighbors who were within 200fl. Mrs. Gruendle presented her case. She stated that presently she was operating Group Family Day Care where she lived upstairs and she operated the day care out of the basement, She has all ages and operates from 6:30 am to 6:30pm. She wants' to change to before and after school care and use the whole house and only have school age children. They wouM be there all day during the summer and when there is no school. She would no longer be living there, She stated originally they had had a two year lease with the option to buy. When they went back to the bank after the two years' they were tom they wouM need more ora down payment because it is technically a commercial buiMing. They need to come up with an additional $25, O00. OO for the downpayment. The landlord extended their lease for an additional 27 months. If they do not come up with the downpayment within the 27 months they will lose everything to date. No tnonies would be refunded to them. At the end of the first lease if they opted not to buy they would get "X" amount of dollars back The landlord's terms to have another lease was "all or nothing." She went on to state they have thousands invested in the property that they could lose, Mrs. Hodge asked if applicants had to get a variance to operate their present day care center and the answer was no. They had gone to the Planning Board but not to the ZBA. It seems the process was overlooked, Mr. Morris asked how many children the applicants were applying for and she answered they would have four classrooms with lO children in each classroom. According to the state based on the square she could have up to 44 children with 5 kindegarden children that are there 1/2 day. Mr. Morris asked if