Jacksonville Beach Board of Adjustment approves setback variance for 20230 Third Avenue South

The Jacksonville Beach Board of Adjustment approved BOA 24-1000073, clarifying a previously granted variance and authorizing a zero-foot easterly setback for a patio slab at 20230 Third Avenue South while confirming a five-foot easterly setback for the primary structure.

The variance hearing centered on a scrivener’s error in the written approval from an earlier meeting and a request to confirm that permeable pavers and a fence could extend to the property edge where Public Works had separately approved a revocable encroachment permit. Maria Dorian, the applicant and homeowner at 20230 Third Avenue South, said the developer followed the board’s earlier direction to move the proposed dwelling five feet east and then sought confirmation because the move placed pavers and a fence partly on city…