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Pontiac ZBA approves vinyl fence in place of required masonry wall at Oakland Fuels site
Summary
The Pontiac Zoning Board of Appeals unanimously approved a dimensional variance allowing vinyl fencing instead of a masonry wall at 1144 N. Perry St. (Oakland Fuels), after hearing staff history, the owner’s counsel invoke laches and commissioners debate enforcement timing and aesthetics.
Pontiac’s Zoning Board of Appeals voted unanimously on Nov. 17 to grant a dimensional variance (ZBA25-008) allowing vinyl fencing in place of the masonry wall required at 1144 North Perry Street, a longtime gas station operated by Oakland Fuels.
Planning staff told the board the site has operated as an automobile filling station since 1985 and that the Pontiac Planning Commission’s 1985 site-plan approval included a condition requiring a masonry wall. Staff cited the current ordinance sections that prescribe a type-a (option 1) buffer—Article 2, Chapter 5 §2.509 and Article 4, Chapter 4 §4.405—and said the building and safety division withheld a 2022 re-occupancy certificate pending construction of a masonry wall.
Attorney Andrew Littman, representing the petitioner, asked the board either to overturn an administrative enforcement requiring a masonry wall or, in the alternative, to grant a dimensional variance under §6.407(b). Littman…
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