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PCZBA advises subdividing 1750 Shore Acres Drive to preserve trees and meet setbacks
Summary
Architects for Shore Acres Drive LLC sought informal feedback on demolishing an existing coach house and building a new cottage at 1750 Shore Acres Drive; commissioners advised creating a half-acre lot and moving the new house back to preserve trees and comply with CE zoning setbacks.
At an informal review July 16, the Village of Lake Bluff Joint Plan Commission and Zoning Board of Appeals advised the project team for 1750 Shore Acres Drive to pursue a lot reconfiguration that would square off the parcel and create a half-acre building lot, moving the new home farther from the road to meet Country Estate (CE) district setback expectations and preserve mature front-yard trees.
Healy Rice, the architect for Shore Acres Drive LLC, presented four layout options for a property the planners described as L-shaped and undersized for the CE district’s usual front- and rear-setback requirements. Rice said the proposed new house would total roughly 2,861 square feet of living area with an…
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