Troy ZBA denies 3-foot height variance for Crooks Road attached-homes project

At its May 2025 meeting the Troy City Zoning Board of Appeals denied a request for a 3-foot height variance that would have allowed new attached single-family homes at 3991 Crooks Road to reach 33 feet, above the 30-foot limit in the city zoning ordinance.

The applicant’s architect, David Donilon, told the board the developer planned 38 one-family attached homes on about 5½ acres and that each home would be roughly 3,000 square feet. Donilon said the buildings’ roof geometry produced a ridge height that measured 33 feet under the ordinance’s height definition and argued the project should be allowed to “emulate the homes in Stonehaven.” He told the board, “We are not talking about apartments. We’re not talking about rentals. We’re talking about people who are gonna buy these homes and live here.”

The request was a variance from the city zoning ordinance’s height limits and related rules for parcels that abut single-family residential zoning (Article 2 and Article 8 were…