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Committee recommends Planning Commission approve major setback variance for Catherine Lane garage, with landscaping condition
Summary
The Development Review Committee recommended that the Planning Commission approve application 25PLN-0036 to reduce a front-yard setback from 15 to 5 feet to permit an attached garage, adopting a CEQA categorical exemption and adding a condition that the existing driveway to a shed be removed and replaced with landscaping. The committee recorded a 4–1 vote to forward the application.
The Grass Valley Development Review Committee on Jan. 27 recommended the Planning Commission approve a major variance (application 25PLN-0036) to reduce the front-yard setback from 15 feet to 5 feet on a single-family lot on Catherine Lane to allow construction of an attached accessory garage.
Associate Planner Vanessa Franken described the parcel’s curved frontage and the parcel’s 1949 subdivision pattern, saying the lot’s configuration limits typical placement of accessory structures. Staff reported the engineering review found sight-distance acceptable for the…
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