Alton ZBA: Special-exception for Eagles Rest septic ruled unnecessary; variance approved to allow two additional units

Lede On Sept. 4, 2025, the Town of Alton Zoning Board of Adjustment ruled that a special exception was not required to install an individual sewage disposal system within the aquifer protection overlay for Eagles Rest, a 55-unit manufactured-home community, and later approved a variance to allow 57 manufactured housing units on the property where the rural-zone limit is 28.

Nut graf The board’s determinations resolve two linked issues raised repeatedly during the applicant’s rehearing: whether the zoning ordinance’s special-exception provision for “liquid or leachable wastes” applies to a single on-site septic system serving one home within a community, and whether the property is entitled to relief from current density limits. The outcome allows the owner to add two units to a long-established senior community but leaves open the technical and permit work required by state regulators.

Body The case (Z25-15R) concerns Eagles Rest, a manufactured housing community established in 1986 and described in the hearing record as a 55-home park with about 90–95 residents. Attorney Sean Dunphy, representing property owners Walter and Janice Borowski, told the board the…