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Mound Council approves expansion permit for 2971 Cambridge Lane despite neighbor access dispute
Summary
The Mound City Council voted to approve planning case 25-13, allowing a second-story replacement house at 2971 Cambridge Lane and a reduction in impervious surface to 48%. Neighbors raised longstanding access concerns; the council left access remedies to separate discussion rather than conditioning the permit.
The Mound City Council on Dec. 9 approved planning case 25-13, an expansion permit that allows a replacement, two-story house at 2971 Cambridge Lane while maintaining several existing nonconforming setbacks.
Rita, a city planning consultant, told the council the house — originally built in 1914 — would increase in footprint from about 1,300 to 1,500 square feet and add a second story. The applicant intends to reduce the site—s impervious surface from 64.69% to about 48% by replacing a bituminous driveway with permeable pavers and removing a shed, though the proposed cover remains above the R1A 40% maximum. Rita said the changes keep most work within the existing footprint and that the expansion permit is required because the proposal raises the degree of a pre-existing nonconformity (the second story).
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