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Planning commission recommends denial of variance to split Military Road property encumbered by wetlands
Summary
The commission voted to recommend denying a zoning variance request from property owners Nick and Kelly Johnson to create two buildable lots on a wetlands-encumbered parcel at 7086 Military Road; staff concluded the variance findings of fact were not met.
The Woodbury Planning Commission on Monday recommended denial of a variance request to allow two buildable lots on a property at 7086 Military Road, finding the application did not meet the city code’s required findings for granting a variance.
City staff presented the application from property owners Nick and Kelly Johnson. The parcel is zoned R-2 Single Family Estate District, which requires a minimum lot area of three acres exclusive of wetlands. Staff said a wetland delineation shows 1.116 acres of wetlands on the site, reducing the area exclusive of wetlands to about 4.98 acres. Staff reported that, after accounting for required wetland buffers (a 25-foot undisturbed buffer around delineated wetlands under city code section 27-15), neither of the proposed lots would meet the three-acre requirement exclusive of wetlands. The proposed subdivision showed Lot A at about 3.03…
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