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Fremont County board approves 25-foot front-setback variance for Spruce Basin storage shed

5779857 · September 15, 2025
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The Fremont County Board of Zoning Adjustment voted 4-0 to approve a variance reducing the required front setback from 50 feet to 25 feet for a storage building at 1111 Nuthatch Drive in the Spruce Basin subdivision near Cotopaxi.

The Fremont County Board of Zoning Adjustment approved a variance 4-0 on a request to reduce the required front setback from 50 feet to 25 feet for a storage building at 1111 Nuthatch Drive in the Spruce Basin subdivision near Cotopaxi.

The variance, requested by property owners Michael and Colleen Croach, applies to Lot 18, Block 3, Spruce Basin, filing No. 4. The county planning department reported the parcel is roughly six acres and that the proposed storage building would be 25 feet from the front property line, 25 feet short of the R-2 zone’s 50-foot front setback. The department’s staff presentation said the proposed side setback (137.2 feet) and rear setback (about 615.9 feet) meet zoning requirements.

The planning department recommended approval, saying the proposal met the four hardship criteria in Fremont County Zoning Resolution Section 7.03 and that the building is an allowed use in the R-2 zone…

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