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Forest Lake planners approve front-setback variance for 780 Woodland Drive, deny impervious-surface increase
Summary
The Planning Commission approved a reduced front-yard setback to allow a detached garage to be moved onto 780 Woodland Drive but denied an increase in allowable impervious surface, conditioning any building permit on first combining the adjacent unaddressed lot with the subject parcel.
The Forest Lake Planning Commission on Tuesday approved a variance shortening the front-yard setback at 780 Woodland Drive to allow an existing detached garage to be relocated onto the primary parcel, but it denied an increase in the property’s allowable impervious surface and attached a lot-combination requirement before a building permit can be issued.
City planning staff described the request as two related variances: a front set‑back reduction (from 30 feet to roughly 9 feet) and an impervious-surface increase from the district standard (about 30 percent) to approximately 35 percent once the driveway is added. Staff told the commission the lot is nonconforming (about 4,700 square feet) with a roughly 680-square-foot house and a 320-square-foot detached garage currently located on an unaddressed…
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