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BZA approves floodway variance for replacement home after engineer’s no-rise certification

3198656 · April 21, 2025
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Summary

The Board approved a floodway variance allowing reconstruction of a smaller home in the Mulberry Creek overflow area after the applicant submitted a certified ‘no-rise’ engineering analysis and agreed to staff conditions on elevation and openings.

The Salina Board of Zoning Appeals approved application V25-2 on a voice vote to allow construction of a roughly 1,352-square-foot single-family dwelling at the northwest corner of North Fifth Street and Stemel Road in the Mulberry Creek overflow floodway, contingent on staff conditions and a licensed engineer’s no-rise certification.

Planning staff told the board the site previously contained a dwelling (about 2,100 square feet) that was condemned and removed in February 2019. The applicant’s engineer, Kaw Valley Engineering, submitted a hydraulic analysis and a sealed no-rise certification concluding…

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