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Hammond BZA approves first-floor residence and lot-width variance at 6736 Columbia Avenue
Summary
The Hammond Board of Zoning Appeals voted June 26 to allow primary residential occupancy on the first floor of 6736 Columbia Avenue and to grant a developmental variance reducing required lot width and area, subject to recorded easements and staff conditions.
The Hammond Board of Zoning Appeals on June 26 approved a conditional use permit and a developmental variance that will allow the single-family house at 6736 Columbia Avenue to remain a first-floor primary residence and to occupy a lot narrower and smaller than current C1 district requirements.
Rick Dawson, the petitioner, told the board the house has been used as a residence “for as long as anyone can remember” and described steps taken to separate the house from the adjacent former Hammond Salvage commercial building, create residential parking and record agreements to govern shared walls and access. City staff recommended approval of both requests, subject to recording the required easements; the board voted in favor of both measures.
The petitions were filed as Z-25-09 (conditional use) and Z-25-10 (developmental variance). Under Hammond’s zoning code, C1 local commercial districts generally allow residential use only on upper…
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