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Board of Adjustment grants variance to allow two-lot division where right-of-way reduced gross acreage
Summary
The Board of Adjustment approved a variance July 28 to reduce the minimum lot-size requirement for an agricultural parcel that lost land to a public right-of-way and would net 4.7 acres instead of the 5-acre minimum.
The Newberry Board of Adjustment granted a variance on July 28, 2025, allowing a parcel in the city’s Agricultural zoning district to be divided despite the net lot area falling just below the 5-acre minimum because public right-of-way absorption reduced the parcel’s net acreage.
Stacy Hechtus of the community development department explained staff’s recommendation: the parcel (parcel number 04266-006-000,…
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