Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Driveway Variance topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Board approves driveway variance for Aberdeen lot after applicant cites neighborhood precedents
Summary
The Bargersville Board of Zoning Appeals approved a variance allowing a second driveway cut for a home in the Aberdeen planned unit development, citing prior approvals for similar configurations nearby.
The Bargersville Board of Zoning Appeals on a voice/roll-call vote approved a development-standards variance allowing a second driveway curb cut for a residence in the Aberdeen planned unit development.
The variance, docket VAR-516-2025, permits a circular driveway with two street cuts at the property identified in the record as 554/5455 Stonewood Court, zoned PUD. Planning staff told the board the town issued a building permit last March showing a single 16-foot driveway cut, and the petitioner is now asking permission to add a second cut to create a circular drive.
Planning staff explained the action was processed under the older Aberdeen PUD ordinance and that the relevant requirement—limiting the number of drive cuts for residential lots—also appears in the town’s Unified Development Code. The staff presentation included the four decision criteria the board must weigh for development-standards variances because the application referenced the prior zoning ordinance.
Applicant Addison Lusby said the neighborhood already contains similar driveway configurations. Lusby told the board that a local builder and the homeowners association were aware of the plan and that three other lots in the neighborhood had the same driveway configuration and had been approved previously.
Board members asked whether the HOA had been contacted; Lusby said Mike Duke of the HOA was aware and that Duke had offered to help with construction. No members of the public spoke for or against the application during the public-hearing period.
Board member Rowanna Umbarger moved to approve VAR-516-2025 as presented; the motion was seconded and approved by roll call: Umbarger, aye; James Kopp, abstain (because he said he was absent for prior notice); John Mandebach, aye; Larry Hughes, aye; Jeff Sikwair, aye. The motion carried.
The record includes the staff packet materials and the site plan showing the approved single driveway and the proposed circular drive. The board noted, for purposes of the findings of fact, that similar variances had been approved for three prior parcels in the neighborhood, though the board also emphasized its obligation to evaluate the four statutory decision criteria individually when drafting findings that will accompany the eventual order.
The board moved to the next agenda item after the vote.
