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LaPorte County Board of Zoning Appeals approves several variances, sets time limits and conditions for RV and youth-facility requests
Summary
At its July 15 meeting the LaPorte County Board of Zoning Appeals granted lifetime variances for two mobile-home placements, approved a time-limited RV-inhabitation variance (construction to start within 12 months, complete within three years), approved a 4-year mobile-home placement and a shed setback variance, and approved a youth wrestling facility with conditions after neighbor objections.
LaPorte County’s Board of Zoning Appeals on July 15 approved a slate of development variances ranging from lifetime exceptions for long-standing mobile-home placements to a conditional use variance for a rural youth-wrestling training facility.
The board approved a lifetime variance for the current owner of a mobile home at 8581 South 1010 West after attorney Andrew Volts (David Ambers & Associates) told the panel the variance has been renewed periodically since 1986 and “it runs with the property owner and not with the land.” Similar lifetime relief was granted to the occupant of a mobile home at 8451 North 500 West after Peggy Ward described her circumstances, saying she is retired and "on Social Security" and asked for a lifetime allowance rather than repeated renewals.
In a contested procedural decision, the board granted Skyler and Lauren Rippey a three-year temporary variance to live in an RV at 196 South 600 East while building a house on the 5-acre parcel,…
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