Southtowns Record

ZBA 2026-03-05 Agenda & Minutes

Government
Town of Boston
Board
Zoning Board of Appeals
Meeting
Mar 5, 2026
Posted by publisher
Sep 30, 2026
Kind
Minutes
Topics
Zoning and land use, Water, sewer and drainage

Original document

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about this? It's kind of a general category as they're looked at. And, unfortunately, sometimes we wind up issues
like this where 10 people, 10 different determinations. We must go with what's most general to get to that. So,
mean, it's like a vegetable oil is what you described it as. It's a type of vegetable oil. Ingredient. Yeah. So, I'm,
like, wondering if, you know, you're not painting it on. How do you apply it? Is it a gun?

Mr. Wendling: Compressed air. Yeah. It's compressed air. No, like, VOCs or anything like that. It kind of
smells like some of the products can be, like, they have a cherry flavored. I don't really, it's more money. It's I
mean, if you want to smell car smell like Cherry's. Yeah. No. I would not want that. No.

Chairman Ms. Rood: This doesn't fit under this, it fits under this, that's your prerogative too. So, I'm wondering
if it could be at, like, an application because there's really, you know, there's nothing released into the
atmosphere from it. There's no noise, right, except from the compressor. Compressor. Yeah. Air can be kind of
loud. It's going to be it doesn't help the property in question being unique. That is going to be a sticking point.
Your property Well, this would be I'm looking at as falling under some other zone. But he gets under the C1
Right. Be in C1. Instead of it's so hard to do it it's honestly So there's not very many places that do it. Right? It's
kind of a niche thing. But to change the for us to change the use is very as it stands right now, there's no way we
can give it to you. There's no way. So, what you'd need to do is try and make your application, or your activity
that you're going to be doing fit within the code somehow. And that's what I think. Info you can get maybe
would help it lean towards falling into a C1. If the board determines that it's a retail sale. So, I would sell the
product. He could be selling widgets. Would you sell it?

Mr. Wendling: Yes, would I sell the undercoating product? Yes, in in gallons, you could buy it in quarts,
gallons or 5 gallons containers. I would also sell like; you could there's a DIY kit. Like, if you want to do your
own vehicle, there's a small DIY kit. I would carry that stuff as well. And I would offer the service of doing
your vehicle as well as selling the product itself. Yeah. I guess I'll be up tomorrow to figure out exactly what the
next step is?

Chairman Ms. Rood: Does anybody have any other questions? No

Chairman Ms. Rood: Well, you did say that you were going to have no drains. So, even if that product was to
get into the water table type of thing anyways. Because you are saying that even though it's vegetable oil, it's
still an oil of some right. The applicator gun that you use is concentrated.

Mr. Wendling: I mean, it's it sprays right where you're shooting. There is no, like, overspray. It's not a
traditional, like, paint where you have fumes and overspray and stuff. It's a concentrated stream.

Chairman Ms. Rood: that's just I was trying to so that way they you clarify that so it's not getting into the water
table basically itself too. Would you put a lift in the building?

Mr. Wendling: It would be a 4-post drive on lift, you know, so you could walk right under the vehicle and do it.
Yeah. Yeah. That's why the ceilings, you know, would be as tall as they do that product migrate within the
walls of the vehicle? So, it creeps. Yeah. So, part of the oil base So that's like the wool wax. Nooks in the
crannies and yes.

Chairman Ms. Rood: And then you need them to fill out that other or check mark that spot. What about the
drainage? Well, I guess we need that. So, what I propose is that we just leave the hearing open until next month
and we can meet you back here at the same time. We will carry on from there. Thank you, Mr. Wendling.

Chairman Ms. Rood: We need to save our paperwork for next time.