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Board approves house-height variance but denies 43-foot detached garage on steep Prescott lots
Summary
The Board of Adjustments approved a modest height increase for a new house (from 35 feet to 38 feet 10 inches) on combined hillside lots but denied a request to allow a detached garage to rise to 43 feet; staff cited steep lots and substantial fill needed to meet fire-code driveway grades. Votes on both items were 5–1.
At a July 17 public hearing, the City of Prescott Board of Adjustments approved one part of a two-part variance request and denied the other. The board approved a house-height variance for case V25-009 (35 feet to 38 feet 10 inches) by a 5–1 vote and later denied a separate request to permit a detached garage to rise to 43 feet from the 20-foot maximum, also by 5–1.
Tammy DeWitt, community planner, presented the request on behalf of the applicant. She said two platted hillside lots are being combined and that the lots were designated hillside at platting because the…
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