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Board of Adjustment approves retaining-wall variance at 2636 Windcrest Ridge Drive with conditions
Summary
The City of Wildwood Board of Adjustment approved a variance allowing a new modular block retaining wall up to 8 feet high to be built partly inside a designated natural resource protection area at 2636 Windcrest Ridge Drive, subject to a landscape plan, arborist approval of tree work, and a pre-construction meeting with city staff.
The City of Wildwood Board of Adjustment on Jan. 16 approved a variance (BA 1-25) allowing construction of a new modular block retaining wall up to 8 feet high and related stairs that intrude into a portion of the lot’s natural resource protection area at 2636 Windcrest Ridge Drive, with conditions requiring a landscape plan, city arborist review, and a pre-construction meeting.
Why it matters: The property lies in the Windcrest Subdivision (R1A, 22,000-square-foot residence district and Planned Residential Development overlay) and the site is in a mapped natural resource protection area intended to limit erosion and preserve wooded buffers for downstream watersheds. Neighbors, the department, and the applicant debated whether the engineered wall would stabilize an eroding slope or further degrade the protected area.
The petition, filed in the name of property owner Mitchell Alting and represented by contractor Zach Weyhart of Saint Louis Hardscape Solutions, requests permission to remove an existing, failing block wall and replace it with a…
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