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BZA narrowly approves Smoot variance allowing reduced side-yard setbacks for proposed retirement home
Summary
Lancaster County—s Board of Zoning Appeals approved, by a 3-2 vote recorded at the hearing, a variance allowing a one-story home with attached garages to be built 15 feet from both side property lines on a Bighorn Trail / Queenstown Road parcel.
Lancaster County—s Board of Zoning Appeals approved, by a 3-2 vote recorded at the hearing, a variance requested by William and Teresa Smoot to allow a primary one-story dwelling with attached garages to sit 15 feet from the easterly and westerly property lines on a Bighorn Trail / Queenstown Road parcel that the applicants intend as their retirement home.
Applicant William Smoot told the board he and his wife want a single-story home with two attached two-car garages and a central courtyard; he said many of the house plans they are considering are 65 to 70 feet wide and that the lot—s existing building envelope (about 69.5 feet wide, per the staff survey) would be inadequate once attached…
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