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Council approves variances allowing new house and pool at 196 Short Street with conditions on stream buffer disturbance
Summary
Council granted variances to allow a new single‑family house and pool at 196 Short Street despite stream‑buffer encroachments, subject to planning commission conditions limiting disturbance in the 50‑foot undisturbed buffer and restricting pool placement.
The council approved variances that allow demolition of existing structures and construction of a new single‑family home and pool at 196 Short Street, a one‑acre downtown property that staff determined includes state waters and stream buffers under current rules.
Planner Natalie (staff) summarized the review: the site contains mapped streams and a layered buffer/setback scheme (50‑foot undisturbed buffer, 75‑foot impervious setback, a 25‑foot state stream buffer). Existing buildings…
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