Fairhope BOA tables setback variance for 11 Greenbrier Lane pending geotechnical studies

The Fairhope Board of Adjustment voted unanimously to table a request for a 15-foot front-yard setback variance for 11 Greenbrier Lane, giving the applicant up to six months to provide a topographic survey and a geotechnical engineer’s recommendation on a safe building distance from a gully on the lot.

Planning staff described the lot as a wooded, buildable R-1 parcel of about 0.38 acres in Greenbrier Subdivision and recommended denial of the variance. Staff noted existing drainage easements and a steep, roughly 15-foot-deep gully that complicates placement of the proposed home, and told the board the property could be developed without a variance using a different footprint. “As such, staff does recommend denial of BOA26.0111 Greenbrier Lane, request for 15 foot front yard setback variance,” staff said…