Alpharetta panel approves 2-foot side setback exception for detached garage at 1340 Squirrel Run

The Alpharetta planning body on an unspecified date approved an exception to the Unified Development Code to allow a detached one-car garage at 1340 Squirrel Run to sit 6 feet from the west property line instead of the 8-foot setback otherwise in effect for the Jennifer Oaks subdivision.

Michael Woodman, a City staff member, presented the item as "a request for an exception to reduce the side building setback from 8 feet to 6 feet to accommodate a detached garage." He told the board the property is in the Jennifer Oaks subdivision, is about 0.3 acres, is zoned R-15, and is developed with a two-story, roughly 3,100-square-foot single-family home. Woodman said the Unified Development Code requires a 10-foot side setback in R-15 but that the subdivision was allowed an 8-foot side setback for its lots.

The applicant, John Foley of 1340 Squirrel Run, told the board the proposed structure would be a single-car…