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Lynn City zoning board grants variance to restore front porch at 15 Alden Street with landscaping condition
Summary
The Lynn City Zoning Board approved a variance allowing property owners Paul Tebow and Valerie Wood to reconstruct a front porch at 15 Alden Street, with a requirement that the owners install landscaping between the porch and the sidewalk.
The Lynn City Zoning Board approved a variance allowing property owners Paul Tebow and Valerie Wood to rebuild a front porch at 15 Alden Street, a preexisting nonconforming lot, with a condition that the owners install landscaping in the narrow strip between the new porch and the sidewalk.
The case was presented by Dan Cahill, attorney at Cherry Tree Legal, who said his clients have owned the house since the 1940s and asked the board to restore a historically typical porch. "My name is Dan Cahill. I'm an attorney at Cherry Tree Legal ... and I'm here joined by my clients, Paul Tebow and his wife, Valerie Wood," Cahill told the board.
The board considered the variance request under the city zoning ordinance provisions cited by the applicant, which the presentation described as allowing a single-family dwelling on a preexisting nonconforming lot in the R1 single-residence district. The application asks the board to allow a porch projecting 3.6 feet from the…
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