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Auburn zoning board approves variance to place carport forward of home to avoid floodplain
Summary
The Auburn Board of Zoning Appeals approved a variance allowing a detached carport to sit roughly 39 feet forward of the principal structure at 741 Kentwood Drive so the structure can be placed outside an expanded flood plain, board members said. The vote was unanimous.
The Auburn Board of Zoning Appeals approved a variance on a unanimous vote to allow a detached carport to be constructed forward of the front plane of the principal structure at 741 Kentwood Drive so the carport can be located outside the flood plain.
The board approved BZ2025003, which would permit a carport to sit about 38.7 feet in front of the house’s front building line, a change staff said would place the carport outside the expanded flood plain. Patricia Smith, acting vice chair, announced the board was taking up the variance as new business and read the appeals information for zoning decisions under the city’s zoning ordinance.
Planning staff told the board the closest point of the principal structure to the front property line is about 110.4 feet and that the proposed carport would be about 71.7 feet from the front property line; the difference produces…
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