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Zoning board tables three new applications after applicants or notice failures; neighbor raises parking and drainage concerns
Summary
The Madison City Board of Zoning Appeals tabled a variance for a detached garage, a conditional-use application for apartments and a short-term rental/variance request after applicants were absent or failed to provide required notice; a neighbor raised parking and stormwater runoff concerns for the apartment proposal.
MADISON CITY — The Madison City Board of Zoning Appeals on March 10 tabled three new applications to its next regular meeting after applicants or required notices were not in order and after a nearby resident raised concerns about parking and drainage for one proposal.
The board tabled BZV-25-4, a request by Tom Pichard for a variance to develop a detached garage with a 2-foot setback on the west lot line at 820 West Third, because the applicant told staff he did not mail required certified notices to neighbors. The board voted to table the application to the April meeting.
The board also tabled an application identified as 255 (conditional-use permit to build apartments at 1630 — numbering per agenda), after a nearby property owner, Ravinda Dabdi of 1216 Green Road, raised questions about parking and stormwater runoff. Dabdi told the board she owns three lots across the street and asked how many parking spaces the developer planned and how the development would affect runoff because the proposed building site is at a higher grade than her lots. "First is, the parking situation there... how many parking spots are they planning on putting up there?" Dabdi said. She added that the street is narrow and that runoff from the higher site could flow onto her property.
A city staff member responded to the runoff concern: "You can't direct stormwater onto somebody else's lot. That's correct." Staff and the board said they had not received the applicant or site plans at the meeting and moved to table the item until the applicant appears and can answer technical questions. The board said details for the next meeting would be posted on the city website.
At 2156 North K Road, Angela Koehler requested both a variance for a lot smaller than the one-acre minimum in residential-agriculture zoning and a conditional-use permit to operate a short-term rental (examples given: Airbnb). Staff said the lot is "6 6 3 acres or so" (as described at the meeting), below the one-acre minimum that the board said applies in residential-agriculture zoning; Koehler was not present. The board said it does not approve applications without hearing from the applicant and moved to table both the variance and the conditional-use request for 2156 North K Road until the April meeting.
Each tabling motion passed on a voice vote. Board members advised neighbors to check the city website or the downtown bulletin board a week before the next meeting for updated agendas and application materials.
