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Board of Zoning Appeals -December 18, 2008 <br />MR. SPIER: I understand the concern about the properties after the Jesuits after if they should sell it of the <br />units being transferred to a more traditional student use. We are in favor if a condition be put on the Special <br />Exception. We are in favor of that. <br />MR. HOBAN: I have a question, is there any intention of having a chapel of any sort, Inside the units? <br />MR. SPIER: No. <br />MR. SASSANO: Is this space going to be used for meetings of any kind? Is this simply for dwelling or are <br />you going to have weekly Bible studies ...? <br />MR. MCCARTHY: All they have expressed to me is just housing. Again presently their housing is spread <br />throughout the county and their just seeking to bring students, the Jesuits all together so they can live together <br />as a family. They've expressed no interest at all in any commercial type activities. The building isn't proper <br />for that anyway. It's essentially four bedrooms with a basement. <br />MR. SASSANO: Okay. Chuck correct me if I'm wrong, but should somehow should the use involve more into <br />a public gathering space there are plenty of options through Code Enforcement to address that? Is that correct? <br />In other words there's regular meetings with 20 cars showing up, does that then become a use that the neighbors <br />find disruptive that they can react at that time? <br />MR. BULOT: What you're getting into now is considered religious use and getting into a totally different area. <br />If it functions as religious use then we have to accommodate the loading for the space and accommodate the <br />public now because it falls under as if it were a church or as if it were a synagogue. You have to accommodate <br />the public which means you have to have the handicap accessibility... <br />MR. SASSANO: My question is if somehow this evolves into that, there are ways in which the issue can be <br />brought forward for discussion and resolution if that's what in fact ...giving this a status of a group residence <br />doesn't imply that this group can now operate freely as a religious organization with meetings? <br />MR. BULOT: No. The Special Exception Use is solely for habitation. It doesn't cross over into an additional <br />use. <br />MR. SASSANO: Okay that answers my question. Thank you. My only question then for counselor is, what <br />stipulations can we put on it? <br />MR. JANKOWKSI: You can't limit it. If the Special Exception is recommended, the Special Exception runs <br />with the property, period. 5o you can't stop it there. <br />MR. SASSANO: And you can't put a time frame on it? <br />MR. JANKOWSKI: You can't put a time frame on it. The Special Exception runs with the property. If they <br />were to sell it, they would sell it with the Special Exception in place. And the Special Exception would run <br />with both units regardless how they split it up inside. There's isn't anything you can do to limit that with regard <br />to any motion made by this Board. <br />6 <br />