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Board approves detached accessory dwelling unit and two variances for Crestwood property at 5950 Old LaGrange Road
Summary
The board granted a conditional use permit for a detached accessory dwelling unit (ADU) and approved two variances — a maximum square‑footage variance and a location variance — to allow a 684‑square‑foot, wheelchair‑accessible ADU at 5950 Old LaGrange Road in Crestwood, citing the applicant’s testimony on septic location and ADA needs.
The Oldham County Board of Adjustments on Sept. 18 approved a conditional use permit and two variances to allow a detached accessory dwelling unit at 5950 Old LaGrange Road in Crestwood and to exceed the ordinance’s 25% square‑footage cap for ADUs.
Senior planner Anna Barge explained that, under Oldham County Zoning Ordinance section 250.040(e)(1), detached ADUs are allowed in R‑2 zoning only after approval of a conditional use permit. The applicant proposed a roughly 684‑square‑foot ADU that the county’s PVA shows would exceed the ordinance’s 25% maximum of the primary residence and would be located, technically, between the primary house and the road — a layout that requires a location variance.
Anna Barge, senior planner: “According to the PVA, the primary residence is 1,453 square feet, which would allow 363.25 square feet of living space in the ADU. The applicant is requesting 684 square feet, a variance of about 320.75 square feet, and a location variance because the ADU would be between the house and LaGrange Road.”
Applicant Anne Howard, who lives at the address with co‑owner Leslie Hagen, told the board the ADU is planned to house Howard’s adult mother and is designed to be ADA‑accessible. Howard said the property’s lot layout and existing septic location made other placements impractical and that she had already installed a septic sized for five bedrooms to accommodate the addition. “There’s no way that we can make it wheelchair accessible” at the ordinance‑limit size, Howard said of a 25% ADU.
Board members asked whether the ADU would be used as a short‑term rental; the board added a condition that the detached ADU not be used as a short‑term rental. The board also explicitly recorded that the square‑footage variance (320.75 square feet) is approved based on the applicant’s testimony about the need for ADA accessibility and septic constraints. The motion to approve the conditional use permit and both variances carried (vote recorded as 5–0).
Next steps for the applicant include final site and building plans and required permits; staff noted no letters of public opposition had been received.
