Board denies garage setback variance amid drainage concerns

John Guffey, who said he lives at 318 Cardwell Boulevard, asked the Board of Zoning Appeals for permission to build a garage behind his house that would sit about 2 feet from his south property line. He told the board he had redesigned roof drainage so runoff that currently flows north would be rerouted to the south into a gravel-filled dry well, and that the paved area at the rear of the lot already existed.