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Planning Commission approves revised home and ADU at 155 Elm with privacy and landscaping conditions
Summary
The commission unanimously approved a revised single-family home with a detached ADU at 155 Elm Ave, conditioning permanent textured obscure glazing on neighbor-facing windows, at least one additional front-yard tree, and reduced poured-in-place concrete with more permeable surfacing.
The Mill Valley Planning Commission unanimously approved a revised single-family residence and detached accessory dwelling unit at 155 Elm Avenue on April 22, finding the designs addressed prior concerns about massing, privacy and landscaping.
Staff told commissioners the property is an existing roughly 10,000-square-foot lot with a 1,500-square-foot main house and a detached ADU; the applicant added a wraparound front porch, narrowed the driveway and proposed additional landscaping while retaining two mature trees on site. Staff recommended the project be found categorically exempt from CEQA and approved subject to findings and conditions.
The applicant described the porch as about…
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