St. Tammany Board of Adjustments approves front-yard variance at 406 Marina Boulevard in Mandeville

The St. Tammany Parish Board of Adjustments on June 3, 2025 approved a variance to reduce the required front-yard setback at 406 Marina Boulevard in Mandeville to allow construction of an attached garage.

The board voted, by voice vote, to allow the front-yard setback to be reduced from 25 feet to 17 feet 10 inches so the property owner may add an approximately 378-square-foot (about 10.8-by-35-foot) attached garage. The applicant said the lot’s irregular shape and the curvature of the road create a hardship that makes meeting the standard setback difficult.

Jason Zuckerman, the project architect for property owner Walter Morton, told the board the existing house already extended into the front setback and the proposed change would remove a large front stair that currently projects into the setback. “It’s a very irregular irregularly shaped lot on a curved road right across from the marina,” Zuckerman said, describing why the requested reduction was needed.

Zuckerman said the project would add a small 10-foot-wide garage on the far right side of the property and that subsurface drainage would be installed along the property line to collect run-off and direct it to the ditch in front, which he said would avoid impacts to neighboring properties. Ricky Galloway of High Tide Consultants, the project civil engineer, was present to answer technical questions.

Board discussion was brief and no members of the public registered opposition. A motion to approve the variance was moved and seconded, and the chair called for a voice vote. The chair announced, “All in favor, motion carries,” and the applicant thanked the board.

The approval allows the owner to proceed with the described garage addition as presented to the board; no additional conditions were recorded in the meeting minutes.