Madison County panel approves 9-foot side-yard variance for 1110 East Rock Lane

Madison County — A local permitting panel approved a 9-foot side-yard variance for a residence at 1110 East Rock Lane, allowing the property owner to shift a house site away from a drainage channel.

The applicant told the panel the lot is narrow and a drainage ditch runs through the middle of the parcel, and he sought the variance so the house could be located more toward the center and out of the drainage path. "I'm gonna try to get a variance to move it over to more of the center of the lot so it's not in that drainage," the applicant said during the meeting.

Neighbors asked whether the ditch itself would remain and voiced concerns about roadway flooding during storms. A neighbor asked whether anything would be done to the ditch; panel responses in the record indicate the ditch would remain and that flood concerns were a primary reason the applicant requested the variance.

The motion to approve the 9-foot variance at 1110 East Rock Lane was introduced during the public agenda and carried forward; the transcript records the request and subsequent administrative discussion before the panel proceeded to the next item. The transcript also contains an earlier remark that the setback request was adjusted in prior discussion (spoken as "we sent that back from 2 foot to 1 foot"), but the record does not provide formal documentation of previous numeric setbacks or an ordinance citation.

The panel provided follow-up administrative instructions to finalize the paperwork after the vote. The meeting record does not list a formal ordinance number or show an itemized roll-call tally specifically tied to the variance in the transcript.