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Dorchester County BZA approves variance for North Point Road house addition in critical area
Summary
The Dorchester County Board of Zoning Appeals approved a variance allowing a 1,258-square-foot addition to a waterfront home at 4316 North Point Road after finding the property is largely constrained by critical-area buffers and hydric soils; mitigation and a 3:1 planting ratio were noted as conditions.
The Dorchester County Board of Zoning Appeals voted to approve a variance for a one-story, 1,258-square-foot addition to an existing residence at 4316 North Point Road in Taylor, the board announced during its meeting.
The board’s acting chair, Benjamin Horstman, opened the hearing and read procedures, then staff summarized that the property is zoned rural residential, lies in the county’s critical area and in the flood plain, and that the requested addition would encroach within the 100-foot critical-area buffer. Ryan Showalter, attorney for the applicant, said the existing house (built in 1968) is about 670 square feet and that the project would raise total lot…
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