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Appeals panel questions need for detached garage variance, cites self-imposed hardship

City Board of Appeals
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Summary

Board members questioned a request for a detached garage variance, calling the hardship potentially self-imposed and suggesting design alternatives (ADU, minor relocation) and removal of an unpermitted patio in the stream buffer as mitigation; no formal vote was recorded.

At the work session, Speaker 6 explained why they would deny a detached garage variance: it "does not meet the intent of the ordinance" and would amount to granting a "special privilege," because detached garages are uncommon on nearby lots. Speaker 6 noted the property already has a two-and-a-half-car attached garage and a concrete driveway that…

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