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Resident urges council to grant 17-inch variance to rebuild pole barn to prior height
Summary
A Dayton homeowner told the city council that insurance delays left them outside a 180-day rebuilding window and asked for a 17-inch height variance so they can reconstruct a pole barn with 16-foot sidewalls like the original structure.
A Dayton resident told the City Council on Tuesday that they need a 17-inch variance so they can rebuild a pole barn to the same 16-foot sidewall height it had before a fire.
The homeowner said the pole barn burned on Labor Day weekend and insurance delays prevented them from filing a permit within the city’s 180-day window for rebuilding nonconforming structures. They said staff told them the largest sidewall they could rebuild now without a variance is 14 feet and that the variance process would likely take “at least 2½…
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