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Board grants variance to replace failing deck cantilevers with vertical posts, with condition barring enclosure
Summary
Homeowners on North Ocean Shore received a variance allowing vertical support posts to replace failed cantilevered deck supports, after applicants and neighbors debated safety, view impacts and whether the need was self‑created. The board approved the variance with a condition that the deck and area above and beneath it not be enclosed.
The board approved a variance allowing property owners on several lots along North Ocean Shore Boulevard to replace failing cantilevered deck supports with vertical in‑ground posts, but it attached a condition intended to protect views and prevent future enclosure of the deck area.
Applicant Sid Silhan and his wife told the board they bought their house in October 2024 and discovered structural rot in the cantilever supports that led engineers and contractors to recommend vertical posts as the safer long‑term repair. "The existing cantilevers … had…
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