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Board recommends approval of side-yard setback variance for addition; 444 sq ft would encroach
Summary
The Dorchester County Board of Appeals voted to recommend approval of a variance permitting a residential addition that would place 444 square feet of new construction inside the required side-yard setback, with a condition to submit a swale plan.
Steven Witten, the applicant’s agent, sought a variance to permit a residential addition that would encroach into the required side-yard setback.
The applicant is proposing a 2,149-square-foot addition to an existing dwelling, and, as staff noted during the hearing, 444 square feet of that proposed addition would be inside the setback line. Witten described the proposed expansion as primarily to the southwest of the existing house in the West Haven Court subdivision off Suicide Bridge Road and said the plan would leave about a 10.5-foot setback at the closest point.…
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