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Commissioners send zoning-language change to area planning after Fisher family seeks rebuild on preexisting lot
Summary
After residents said a 2-acre family lot was rendered ineligible for a BZA hearing under current wording, commissioners voted to ask area planning to draft language allowing variances for preexisting nonconforming lots in ag zones; the change would let heirs seek a BZA hearing if adopted later.
Randolph County commissioners voted to ask area planning to draft revised wording for the Unified Zoning Ordinance after David and Angie Fisher told the board they cannot obtain a Board of Zoning Appeals hearing to rebuild on a long-held, preexisting 2-acre family lot.
The Fishers said the original homestead on their property is more than 125 years old and no longer habitable. "We were told we couldn't do it because of the wording," David Fisher said, asking the commission for help to allow the family to rebuild legally on the site they own.
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