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Smyrna board approves variances to allow home on West Cooper Lake Road, adds erosion-control stipulation
Summary
After a public hearing and staff recommendation, the License and Variance Board approved two variances for a planned home at 3910 West Cooper Lake Road, conditioned on mitigation, a recorded plat, and staff-approved permanent BMPs to limit erosion.
The Smyrna License and Variance Board on Jan. 8 approved two variances allowing construction of a two-story home at 3910 West Cooper Lake Road, contingent on mitigation measures and a requirement that the applicant work with city staff to design a permanent erosion-control best management practice (BMP).
Planner Caitlin Crow told the board the property, a little more than one acre in the Cooper Lake Hills subdivision, was platted in 1979 and has never had a house. The city’s stream buffer ordinance, enacted in February 2005, imposes a 50-foot undisturbed stream buffer and a 75-foot impervious-surface setback; the applicant sought variances from both protections to place a 4-bedroom, 4-bathroom, two-story home on the lot.
Crow said the property also includes a sanitary sewer…
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