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Victoria council grants variance for driveway and yard at 3109 Houston Highway after debate
Summary
After debate and a failed initial motion, the Victoria City Council voted to grant a variance allowing a nonconforming driveway and an expanded lay-down yard at 3109 Houston Highway, reversing a unanimous planning commission recommendation to deny the request.
Victoria City Council on Tuesday amended a pending resolution and granted a variance allowing Warrior Supply to keep a long-used driveway and convert a rear lawn to a lay-down/storage yard at 3109 Houston Highway.
The variance request sought relief from two provisions of the city's development code: the minimum driveway clearance in Table 4-1 (Section 21-180) and the commercial landscape-area requirement (Section 21-198). Planning staff and the planning commission recommended denial after finding the company's most recent site work did not match the site plan that had been approved earlier this year.
Planner (staff) explained that the owner had submitted a site plan that showed the grassed back area and no driveway, but inspections found that the lawn had been converted to a lay-down yard and a nonconforming driveway remained in use.…
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