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Rye Brook ZBA grants variances for Millers’ North Ridge Street addition, with condition barring enclosure above portico
Summary
The Rye Brook Zoning Board of Appeals on May 6 provisionally granted variances allowing a second-floor addition and 6-foot front porch at 123 North Ridge Street, while noting neighbor privacy concerns and requiring that no structure be built above the new portico.
The Rye Brook Zoning Board of Appeals on May 6 provisionally granted variances to Kevin Miller and Emily Miller for a second-floor addition, a new front porch and related work at 123 North Ridge Street, finding the requested relief would not unduly change neighborhood character while imposing conditions including a prohibition on enclosing or building above the portico.
The variances were sought because the property lies in the Scenic Road Overlay District, which increases the front-yard setback to 45 feet. The board’s resolution records that the proposed story addition and porch would result in a front-yard setback of 34.5 feet — 10.6 feet short of the overlay requirement — and requests variances for a side height setback ratio (proposed 2.8 vs. limit 2.4, variance 0.4) and single-side yard setback (proposed 7.9 feet vs. required 10 feet, variance…
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