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BZA approves variances to preserve historic buildings at 106 Bridge Street despite floodway constraints
Summary
The Board of Zoning Appeals approved a request to waive the substantial-improvement requirement so three historic buildings at 106 Bridge Street may remain at their existing first-floor elevation, and also approved a separate request to reduce the minimum parking requirement to 0 for the same property.
The Board of Zoning Appeals of Franklin City on Feb. 6, 2025, approved two variances for the property at 106 Bridge Street: (1) a variance to waive the substantial-improvement requirement so the first-floor elevations of contributing historic buildings may remain in place rather than be raised to base flood elevation, and (2) a variance to reduce the minimum parking requirement for a proposed restaurant conversion to 0 spaces.
Planning staff told the board the 0.67-acre site sits entirely within the floodway overlay and within the historic preservation and Central Franklin overlays. The site contains three structures: a circa-1930 concrete-block building (formerly used by the city sanitation department and later as an auto repair shop), a Quonset hut with a brick facade from about the 1970s, and a wood accessory…
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