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BZA approves Van Sant storage site variances with conditions after East Monroe Water Corp. input

2250386 · February 6, 2025
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Summary

The Monroe County BZA approved four variances for a planned convenience-storage facility on Night Ridge Road but required conditions to protect an 8-inch East Monroe Water Corporation main and to allow shrub/groundcover substitutions within 15 feet of the utility.

The Monroe County Board of Zoning Appeals approved four variances for a proposed convenience-storage facility on Night Ridge Road, imposing conditions aimed at protecting an 8-inch water main owned by East Monroe Water Corporation and reducing disturbance near the water line.

The petitioner, represented by developer Ms. Van Sant and engineer William Rigert, sought four variances under the prior zoning code (requested as VAR-24-50 A–D): a maximum lot-coverage variance (Chapter 8-04), a buffer-yard width variance (Chapter 8-30), a buffer-yard D-value variance along the southern property edge (Chapter 8-30), and a variance to omit landscaping in a proposed bioretention basin (Chapter 8-30). The site is in Salt Creek Township at 3434 South Night Ridge Road and had prior approvals for other variances and use changes earlier in 2024.

Planning staff had recommended denial, principally because the applicant’s latest site plan…

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