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Board of Appeals approves 20-foot setback for Lipford corner lot
Summary
The Queen Anne's County Board of Appeals approved a variance (BOA25060221) reducing the 35-foot front-yard setback from Cedar Road to 20 feet for Brian and Sharon Lipford, allowing a two-story single-family home to be built on a narrow, preexisting lot.
The Queen Anne's County Board of Appeals voted to grant a variance in case BOA25060221 to reduce the required 35-foot front-yard setback from Cedar Road to 20 feet so Brian and Sharon Lipford can build a two-story single-family dwelling with garage, covered porch and deck.
The variance affects tax map 57, parcel 378, lot 9, a 0.757-acre corner parcel at Benton Pleasure Road and Cedar Road in the Neighborhood Conservation 20 district. Robert Owen, zoning inspector for Queen Anne's County, told the board the parcel lies inside the county's critical area with tidal wetlands, hydric soils and a 100-foot shoreline buffer. He identified the county code provision cited by staff as 181-19E1C4FI, which establishes a 35-foot building restriction line in…
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