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BZA approves reduced setback and larger lot coverage for Beagles’ garage on County Road 8
Summary
The Cal County Board of Zoning Appeals approved a development standards variance allowing a detached garage to be built 69 feet from the center of County Road 8 at 1875 County Road 8 in Ashley, including an increase in maximum impervious surface coverage to 60% and conditions on drainage and compliance with county agencies.
The Cal County Board of Zoning Appeals voted to approve a development standards variance allowing a detached garage at 1875 County Road 8 in Ashley and to increase the property's permitted impervious surface coverage to 60%, the board said at a hearing whose date is not specified in the transcript.
The variance, sought by property owners Michael Beagle and Tammy Beagle, reduces the front-yard setback measured from the center of County Road 8 so the proposed garage — planned at about 69 feet from the road center — could be built. Staff told the board the Unified Development Ordinance and the DeKalb County thoroughfare plan require an 80-foot setback from the road center (50-foot building setback plus a 30-foot right of way), so the request represents an 11-foot reduction.
Staff said the property's subdivision and house date to 1974 and that the home's location and the lot size (0.44 acres, or 19,166.4…
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