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Planning board grants 1.9-foot rear-setback variance for Superstition Drive patio cover amid HOA safety complaints
Summary
The board approved a variance allowing a patio cover to remain 1.9 feet into a rear setback at 620 Superstition Drive SE despite objections from Homeowners Association members and neighbors who raised structural and wall-stability concerns.
The Rio Rancho Planning and Zoning Board approved a variance allowing a patio cover at 620 Superstition Drive SE to encroach 1.9 feet into the rear setback.
Staff planner Tim Dvorak told the board the patio cover sits 3.1 feet from the rear property line and therefore requires a 1.9-foot encroachment approval because the special-use setbacks for the neighborhood require 15 feet from the rear. Dvorak said the lot is approximately 0.1148 acres and that the applicant had submitted building permit application number 25-1963; staff recommended denial of the variance, concluding the application did not meet the standards for a variance.
Property owner Timothy (Tim) Hecker told the board the cover was built to provide reasonable use of an existing patio, to reduce heating and cooling…
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