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Collierville BZA OKs variance to restore subdivision sign in public right-of-way
Summary
The Town of Collierville Board of Zoning Appeals approved a variance allowing The Woods homeowners association to rebuild a freestanding entry sign that sits in the public right-of-way, subject to conditions including a recorded plat note, height limits and sight-distance landscaping changes.
The Board of Zoning Appeals for the Town of Collierville on an undisclosed date approved a variance to allow the reconstruction of a freestanding entry sign for The Woods subdivision in a landscaped median that lies within the public right-of-way at South Tree Drive and Mahalia Road.
Planning staff told the board the sign previously stood on the median for decades, was demolished last year because of wood rot, and cannot be fully reconstructed without relief from the current sign regulations because it sits in the right-of-way and is closer than the town's required 10-foot setback.
Staff recommended approval, saying the site is an atypical situation dating to a 1978 plat that did not dedicate the median as a common open-space lot. Planning staff said the town owns the right-of-way and the homeowners association…
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