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Royal Oak zoning board deadlocks on variance for senior accessory dwelling
Summary
The Zoning Board of Appeals split 4–4 and failed to grant variances requested to add a 600-square-foot senior accessory dwelling at a Greenleaf Drive home, leaving the applicant without relief after the Planning Commission had approved the special land use. Board members were split over whether the property’s size and prior variances made the hardship self-created.
The Royal Oak Zoning Board of Appeals deadlocked 4–4 and did not approve two variances requested to allow a 600-square-foot senior accessory dwelling at a single-family property on Greenleaf Drive.
Keith Logs, an architect with Michael Willoughby & Associates, told the board the planning commission had unanimously approved the applicant’s site plan and the special land use needed to add a senior accessory dwelling. Logs said the unit would be attached, no larger than 600 square feet, would include a 247-square-foot…
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