Planning board denies variance for screen enclosure at 119 Gaillardia Loop after neighbor opposition

The Planning & Zoning Board on a unanimous roll call denied a variance request to reduce the front-yard setback along the alley from 15 feet to 5 feet and the side-yard setback from 10 feet to 5 feet at 119 Gaillardia Loop, which the applicant sought to allow construction of a screened enclosure over an existing pool.

Neighbors who live directly behind the property told the board the enclosure would block views and shrink otherwise small yards, and said the claimed tree-removal hardship was created when trees were removed from the lot. “A variance would place a large metal structure directly in our sight line,” Kelly Zadimund said during public comment, adding that cedar trees the applicant cited as a hardship had been removed and that a fence or plantings would provide better privacy than…