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Votes at a glance

- BOA case 20244077 (181 Morningside Drive, Mandeville): Applicant requested to reduce a rear yard setback from 10 feet to roughly 2.9 inches and to reduce a required driveway side setback from 5 feet to 1 foot to allow an accessory building and sidewalk. The applicant asked to postpone while submitting a final fill plan and other documents; the board voted to postpone the matter to the March meeting.

- BOA case 4112 (deck extension, Chandler Drive): The board approved a variance to allow a deck addition to sit 14 feet from the rear property line (down from an 18‑foot requirement) and about 12.2 feet from the seawall, matching a neighbor’s deck. The applicant, Ryan Logsdon, presented a homeowners association DocuSign in support; a motion to approve carried.

- BOA case 20254251 (curb cut / Fabrication Road): The board approved a request to allow a third curb cut on a combined industrial lot and to increase the maximum allowable one‑way driveway width from 15 feet to 35 feet to accommodate larger vehicles for a proposed 34,000‑square‑foot warehouse and angled parking. Nearby property owners spoke in favor of consistent curb‑cut widths for future use; a motion carried.

- BOA case 20254119 (Alpha Industrial Park after‑the‑fact landscape plan): The board approved an after‑the‑fact revised landscape plan submitted in December 2024 showing replacement plantings for trees removed during construction, subject to staff verification that one missing tree is planted as shown on the revised plan. Attorney Paul Marone, representing Alpha 59 and the owner, said the plan was fully implemented except for one missing tree and asked the board to approve the revised plan: “we respectfully request your approval of the landscape plan,” he said. The board approved the request with the condition that the missing tree be planted and inspected.

What happened and why it matters

The deck and curb‑cut requests were presented as limited, site‑specific modifications: the deck variance was supported by neighbor letters and HOA sign‑off, and the curb cut was justified by existing industrial use, a long combined lot frontage and the need to accommodate trucks serving a new tenant. The after‑the‑fact landscape case involved the transition between an older code and a newer one that changed which trees could be removed without prior parish inspection; the owner’s attorney said many removed trees were pines and that the replacement Class A and Class B trees provide a better long‑term planting.

The postponed residential case (Mandeville) was continued after the applicant said fill and other plans were not yet complete; the board noted applicants may postpone when material is incomplete.

Procedural notes

Several motions were made and seconded; the board conducted recorded votes by voting machine and the chair reminded attendees earlier that with four members present certain approvals require unanimity. Staff asked applicants to supply revised plans and to coordinate inspections before any final permits are issued.

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The board’s approval covers a commercial excavation proposed on an approximately 83‑acre parcel along the T.J. Smith Senior Memorial Expressway in the Pearl River area. The applicant sought to reduce the required waterway setback from 500 feet to about 100 feet to accommodate a roughly 30‑acre excavation and an associated pond; the board approved the request with conditions tied to the drawing and additional plan details, staff said.

Board members and the applicant spent the meeting addressing why a 500‑foot buffer was listed in the code and the nature of Bayou Vincent. In describing the project, the applicant said the development would be a commercial sand-extraction operation and noted the site is surrounded by industrial uses. “I intend is to develop a commercial excavation operation project on this site in order to extract sand,” the applicant said during the hearing.

The applicant told the board he obtained a written response from Brad Laboy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers indicating the corps had no additional concerns after its jurisdictional determination and that the waterway is non‑navigable; the applicant quoted the response to the board as saying, “you can as long as you stay out of jurisdiction on wetlands and you have the full approval to go ahead and run piping into that waterway. It’s, it’s non navigable. You’re welcome to do it.” The board did not attribute that statement directly to the Corps; it was presented in the meeting as the applicant’s summary of the Corps’ written response.

Board members pressed on drainage and long‑term management. A member noted nearby regional retention ponds and state/regulatory oversight: the applicant and other speakers said the site would be monitored and pumped as required by DEQ and that a nearby, previously permitted excavation was later used as a regional detention pond. Staff also noted the property had been the subject of earlier, related actions: the parcel was rezoned to I-2 by the zoning commission earlier and a site-review plan had been submitted in November.

The board’s approval included conditions described in the staff report and reiterated during the motion: the variance approval is tied to the submitted drawing and requires the applicant to provide a revised site plan showing the exact driveway location and dimensions, the no‑cut buffer, grading and maneuvering area around the pond, circulation and stockpile areas, and other intended uses. Staff had recommended submission of those details for final approval and inspection.

Discussion vs. decision: the meeting record shows extended discussion about whether Bayou Vincent is a mapped blue‑line, navigable waterway or effectively a drainage ditch and whether the 500‑foot provision was an anomaly in the code. The board approved the variance as a formal action; staff was directed to receive and review the required revised plans and enforce the no‑cut and grading conditions spelled out in the approval.

The board meeting was attended by four members; the chair reminded applicants at the start that with only four members present certain approvals require unanimity. The motion to approve the variance carried on the board’s recorded vote.

What’s next: the applicant must submit the revised, stamped site plan and the staff‑requested exhibits before work proceeds; the board’s action does not itself authorize construction permits beyond compliance with other parish and state regulatory approvals, including any DEQ or Corps requirements.

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