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Planning commission asks staff to draft changes for detached-garage setback rules in older southeast neighborhood
Summary
Following a ZBA referral, the commission asked staff to draft language to address detached garage setbacks in five older subdivisions where many lots are undersized; the city attorney cautioned against using an overlay district as drafted and commissioners asked staff to return with options that are easy to administer.
The planning commission agreed to ask city staff to draft ordinance language to address detached accessory building (garage) setbacks in a southeast Troy neighborhood originally platted in the 1950s. The referral came from the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA), which said many lots in the area do not meet current minimum lot-area and frontage standards (staff reported approximately 70% of parcels below the 7,500-square-foot lot-area threshold) and that homeowners who need to…
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