Tuesday - November 17: The Zoning Board held a Public Hearing on the zoning variance requested by the St. Francis Animal Welfare Center at Village Hall. Present at the meeting was Zoning Board Chairman Jack Call, Board members Gene Beadnell, Jack Cataldo, Mayor Joe Surace and Council Liaison John McMahon.
The requested variance is to renovate and convert a donated garage on Walden Avenue to be used for a temporary dog shelter. At a meeting last Thursday the Zoning Board approved the variance and set the required public hearing for Tuesday. The garage is located in an area zoned residential. Since last Thursday's meeting Board members verified the garage is located on Walden.
With no objections being voiced the Board voted to grant the variance and forward it to Wellsville Village Council for the final step in the approval process. Call remarked that there are four conditions that must be met in granting the variance. Heat must be provided along with a source of water. A fence must be erected to provide a dog run and individual stalls have to be furnished to cage the animals. There will only be four dogs maximum to be sheltered at any one time according to the variance application.
SFAWC member Bobbi Holt stated the garage will be renovated similar to what they did at the Village Dog Pound. Although there is no public source of water on 18th Street Heights they think there is an abandoned well system available from a house that use to be on the lot. Electric heat will most likely be used. Renovation work is expected to begin once final Council approval is given.
With only four members present at the later Council meeting the variance approval was passed on first reading. It takes at least five Council members to place the vote under suspension of rules and by-pass the required three readings. The matter will be revisited at the next Council meeting December 1.
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