Homewood BZA denies developer’s request to shrink landscape buffer at 1707 Rees Street

Jan 9, 2026

The BZA voted down a request to renew a prior variance reducing the required perimeter landscape strip from 15 feet to 5 feet at 1707 Rees Street after neighbors and an adjacent property owner raised parking and fairness concerns.

The full story

The Homewood Board of Zoning Adjustment denied a landscape‑variance request for a proposed retail development at 1707 Rees Street after a neighbor’s objections and board questions about parking and hardship.

Free newsletter

Sign up to keep reading.

Your free newsletter brings you what your city council, county, and school board discussed and decided.

or
Already have an account? Sign in