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Zoning board approves variance for 825 Elmsford to add interior connection to garage
Summary
The Clawson Zoning Board of Appeals approved a variance allowing a 200-square-foot addition that will keep a 15-foot rear setback instead of the 35-foot minimum, citing a shallow lot and existing nonconforming conditions. Vote was unanimous among members present.
The Clawson Zoning Board of Appeals on Sept. 18 approved a variance allowing a 200-square-foot addition at 825 Elmsford that will maintain a 15-foot rear setback instead of the 35-foot minimum required in the R-2 zoning district. The board voted 4-0 to approve the request during a public hearing.
The variance will allow the homeowner to add an interior connection from the attached garage into the house. Andy (planner) told the board the zoning code requires a 35-foot minimum rear setback and that the existing house already sits 15 feet from the rear property line, so the proposed addition “will not get any closer to that rear property line than what the house is already sitting at.”
The request, the planner said, is for a roughly 200-square-foot addition to the rear of the garage that will tie into the house at grade and provide interior…
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