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Somerset council grants variance and conditional permit for 5529 Upingham sunroom after runoff concerns
Summary
After questioning and public testimony about prior runoff, the Somerset Town Council granted a variance to accept a landscaping (non‑engineered) stormwater plan and approved a screened‑sunroom permit at 5529 Upingham Street conditioned on a permeability test and specified routing of roof/runoff to a rain garden.
Somerset — The Town Council on March 3 granted a variance and approved a conditional permit for a screened sunroom at 5529 Upingham Street, requiring a soil permeability test and specific routing of roof runoff into a proposed rain garden.
The applicants, Rachel Miller and John Adomovich, requested a variance from Somerset code to waive the usual engineered stormwater drainage plan required when proposed construction increases impervious surface. The town attorney summarized the narrow scope of the variance: it would waive the requirement for an…
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