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Brookhaven board defers decision on Redding Road putting-green variance after staff recommended denial
Summary
The Brookhaven Board of Appeals deferred a contested request to reduce a stream buffer at 2853 Redding Road so staff can make a site-specific stream-buffer determination; the applicant had sought to place an artificial turf putting green in a drainage feature. The board set the case for Dec. 17 to allow reassessment and possible revisions.
The Brookhaven Board of Appeals on a split and often tense sequence of public testimony on VAR25-00032 voted to defer a request by homeowners Ryan and Britney Blackburn to reduce a 75-foot stream buffer to 53 feet for a small artificial-turf putting green at 2853 Redding Road.
The applicant’s consultant, Jennifer Wolfe of It’s Permittable LLC, told the board the drainage feature at the back of the Blackburn lot is “not a functioning creek” but a shallow drainage ditch that is dry about 90 percent of the time and “rarely holds more than six inches of standing water.” Wolfe said the proposed surface would be an engineered permeable artificial-turf system with a compacted stone base to promote infiltration and that the applicants would follow the city’s specifications to seek a…
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