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Yarmouth Board of Health denies variance request to reclassify addition as bedroom in Zone 2 aquifer protection area
Summary
The board voted not to grant a variance to treat an addition at 18 Buchanan as a bedroom despite a newly installed three-bedroom septic. The decision followed debate about Title 5 definitions, aquifer-protection Zone 2 rules and precedent for future requests.
The Yarmouth Board of Health on March 17 declined a homeowner's request to classify an addition at 18 Buchanan as a third bedroom and to grant a variance that would allow the house to be treated as a three-bedroom dwelling in a Zone 2 aquifer-protection area.
Barry introduced the variance request, explaining the property had been built as a two-bedroom and that a 1982 addition had later created a space the owner now considers a bedroom. Owner Michelle Mangado told the board she purchased the property nearly two years…
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