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Watertown board approves setback variance for Prairie Lakes cancer center addition
Summary
The Watertown Board of Adjustment unanimously approved a variance allowing Prairie Lakes Healthcare to build a cancer center addition with a reduced front-yard setback to accommodate radiation-shielding structure and site reconfiguration.
The Watertown Board of Adjustment on Feb. 6 approved a variance allowing Prairie Lakes Healthcare System to build an addition to its cancer center at 901 Fourth Street Northwest with a reduced front-yard setback.
The board voted 7-0 to grant the variance from the R-3 district front-yard requirement, permitting a 10.6-foot setback for the proposed addition where the zoning code requires a 30-foot front-yard setback. The decision followed a staff presentation, a brief public hearing and comments from the applicant about design and safety needs.
Brandy, a city staff member who presented the item to the board, said the hospital property is zoned R-3 (multifamily residential) and that the required front-yard setback in that district is 30 feet. She told the board the existing…
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