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Owner seeks to demolish and rebuild 260 Bellevue Road; board continues after neighbors raise height, privacy concerns
Summary
Attorney John Lyons and architect presented plans to rebuild 260 Bellevue Road on the existing foundation, increasing the structure to three stories with a dormer that creates a height variance; neighbors cited privacy and view impacts and the board continued the case for revised plans.
Attorney John Lyons and architect Matt Mueller presented a proposal to the Zoning Board of Appeals on Dec. 10 to demolish the existing residence at 260 Bellevue Road and rebuild a larger single-family home on the same foundation. The owner is 260 Bellevue LLC.
Lyons told the board the property sits on a steeply sloping lot in a Residence A single-family zoning district and that most of the existing dimensional nonconformities predate the current owner. He said the proposal maintains the existing foundation footprint but adds a dormer in the rear to provide headroom for an upper-level primary suite, which creates a new story-count and a technical height violation.
"We do have a technical violation of the code with which we do not disagree," Lyons said, adding the height overage is about 14 inches and stems from the lot’s slope and the decision to reuse the existing foundation.…
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