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Board approves setback variance for mobile home at 90 Hazelwood Road over neighbor objections
Summary
The Buncombe County Board of Adjustment voted unanimously to grant a variance reducing a required 10-foot right-of-way/front setback to 4 feet for a manufactured home at 90 Hazelwood Road after hearing testimony about an earlier county review error and neighbor claims of excavation damage and blocked emergency access.
The Buncombe County Board of Adjustment voted unanimously to grant a dimensional variance allowing a manufactured home to be sited closer to the road than the ordinance normally allows at 90 Hazelwood Road.
The request, presented by Walter Lucas of Titan Factory Direct, asked the board to reduce the county’s 10-foot setback to 4 feet so a 24-by-52 mobile home can be placed on a 0.28-acre lot. Staff told the board the site-plan review and initial building permit had been approved and later flagged during a permit renewal when reviewers discovered the setback inconsistency. Lucas said that the site-plan review omitted a right-of-way from the survey, that the buyer closed a loan in reliance on the county…
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