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Zoning board approves third detached accessory building for Torrance property after split vote
Summary
The Grosse Ile Zoning Board of Appeals on Sept. 23 granted a variance permitting a third detached accessory building (16x12 shed) at 22623 West River Road, voting 4-3. Applicant argued historical property layout, existing concrete pad and storage hardship.
GROSSE ILE, Mich. — The Grosse Ile Township Zoning Board of Appeals voted 4-3 on Sept. 23 to approve a variance allowing property owners William Torrance and Cindy Ashley to construct a third detached accessory building — a 16-by-12-foot shed — at 22623 West River Road.
Township planner Brian Borden told the board the property is a large, multi-parcel site with two existing detached accessory buildings (a detached garage and a guest house) and that the proposed shed would reoccupy a location where a prior shed had stood. Under the township code, a single variance is required because the ordinance permits only one detached…
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