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Board unanimously approves Booth after-the-fact variance with conditions to move driveway and add plantings
Summary
After extended review and discussion of mitigation and Critical Area Commission recommendations, the Board approved VAAP23-1978 for Kevin Booth's property contingent on moving the gravel driveway and parking outside the 100-foot buffer and augmenting native plantings in a central open area (walkway excepted).
The St. Mary's County Board of Appeals voted unanimously on Nov. 19 to grant an after-the-fact variance to Kevin Booth for disturbance of the 100-foot critical-area buffer at 18833 Hodges Lane, conditional on moving a gravel driveway and parking area out of the buffer and adding specified native plantings.
Planner Stacy Clements described the case (VAAP23-1978) as an after-the-fact variance for an existing gravel driveway and parking intruding into the county's critical-area buffer. Clements said the property is roughly 37,897 square feet in the rural preservation district, and staff noted the applicant had submitted a revised site plan that moves much of the driveway outside the buffer. The record shows the applicant planted 24,625 square feet of vegetation as mitigation and that the violation…
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