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Plan Commission debates accessory-structure exception in environmental overlay; staff to analyze variance history
Summary
Staff proposed allowing accessory structures and certain additions in the environmental-constraints overlay as an exception to the one-acre contiguous-buildable-area rule; commissioners suggested lowering an initial 1,750 sq ft cap to 1,000 sq ft and asked staff for variance-history analysis for two years.
The Plan Commission reviewed a proposed text change to the environmental-constraints overlay that would create an exception for accessory structures (sheds, garages, pools) and some home additions where contiguous flat buildable area is limited.
Staff described the amendment as a response to property owners with older, legally platted lots of record that lack the one acre of contiguous buildable area required to add common accessory features. The…
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