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Board approves height variances for new home at 488 Willets after designers reduce elevations
Summary
The Board approved variances for building and eave heights for a proposed new home at 488 Willets after the applicant reduced roof heights and demonstrated the hill-sloping lot created practical difficulties.
The Birmingham Board of Zoning Appeals approved several height variances (appeal 25-11) for a proposed new home with attached garage at 488 Willets, allowing the builder to exceed the ordinance limits where the parcel’s sloping topography raises the rear roof/eave heights measured from the lowest point of the lot.
The requested variances addressed (a) maximum pitched-roof midpoint height in an…
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