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Zoning board approves small-generator setbacks for two homeowners
Summary
On Dec. 18, 2004 the Cheektowaga Zoning Board of Appeals granted area variances allowing two homeowners to place backup generators that encroach inside the five-foot side-yard buffer; board members cited safety and neighbor consent in unanimous votes.
The Cheektowaga Zoning Board of Appeals on Dec. 18 unanimously granted area variances to two residents seeking to place backup generators closer than the five-foot side-yard minimum.
James Whitman of 357 Barbados Drive told the board his household — he and his wife, both in their seventies — needs a winter-ready generator because “after a couple of snowstorms … we haven't even been able to get to the back of the house” to use appliances. He said installers measured the proposed location and the unit would be about three…
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