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West Fargo board tables variance request to build pool inside Cheyenne River setback
Summary
The West Fargo Board of Adjustment tabled a request to reduce a 100-foot building control line so a homeowner can build an in-ground pool that would encroach up to 40 feet. Staff said a geotechnical report found soils presently stable; commissioners deferred a decision pending a letter from Southeast Cass.
The West Fargo Board of Adjustment on Jan. 20 voted to table a homeowner’s request to reduce the city’s 100-foot building control line along the Cheyenne River so an in-ground pool and related improvements could be built.
Aaron Nelson, West Fargo director of planning and zoning, told commissioners the application — for property at 3110 Cheyenne River Way and represented by Mark Knutson — would allow the pool to encroach up to 40 feet into the 100-foot setback. Nelson said the applicant hired American Engineering Testing Inc. to complete a geotechnical soils assessment and that the report concluded “riverbank failure of a sheer plain type exceeds traditional factors of safety and…
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