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Board recommends denial of 14.5-foot setback variance after neighbors raise septic and access concerns
Summary
Planning and Zoning Board unanimously recommended denial of a variance that would allow a proposed house to encroach about 14.5 feet into a rear property line; staff said septic location and wells limit design but do not render the lot unbuildable.
The Palm Bay Planning and Zoning Board unanimously recommended denial of a requested variance that would allow a proposed single-family home to encroach 14.5 feet into the rear property line of a corner lot, the board decided Feb. 5.
Planner Christina Hall outlined the application for a single-story, roughly 2,000-square-foot house with an attached 280-square-foot front porch on a corner parcel of about 0.24 acres. The lot, Hall said, is a corner parcel that required setbacks on both street frontages. She told the board the property lacks city water and sewer and would require a septic system and well. Hall said the Florida Department of Health issued a septic permit in July 2024 for a drain field located at the…
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