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Planning Commission OKs front-yard setback variance for Lake Ridge properties

2123469 · January 16, 2025
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Summary

Edina Planning Commission voted to recommend approval of a front-yard (street) setback variance for a combined lot at 5115 and 5121 Lake Ridge Road, with staff citing unique lot circumstances and the applicant preserving the 75-foot lakeshore setback.

The Edina Planning Commission voted Jan. 15 to approve a variance that will allow a new house on a combined lot at 5115 and 5121 Lake Ridge Road to be set about 30 feet from Lake Ridge Road, where the block-average setback requires 46 feet.

The variance request would allow the demolition of an existing house on the northern parcel and construction of a new home on a newly combined lot. City staff told the commission that the house to the south (with a much larger…

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