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Salina board approves landscape-buffer waiver for CHDO infill cottages, 4–1
Summary
The Salina Board of Zoning Appeals on Feb. 19 approved a variance allowing the Community Housing Development Corporation of Central Kansas to add a third cottage on a lot at Harsh and 4th Street without the full 10‑foot landscape buffer, requiring only three street trees; the vote was 4–1.
The Salina Board of Zoning Appeals voted 4–1 on Feb. 19 to approve a landscape‑buffer variance that will let the Community Housing Development Corporation of Central Kansas (CHDO) build a third one‑bedroom cottage on a zoning lot at the northwest corner of Harsh and 4th Street without installing the full 10‑foot planted buffer required for multifamily properties.
Staff told the board the lot is a little over 15,600 square feet and currently contains two dwellings (1001 North 4th Street, built 1994; 235 East Harsh, built 1997) and that R2 zoning normally limits lots to two dwelling units. The CHDO seeks to place three detached one‑bedroom cottages on the lot, which by code makes the site “multifamily” and would normally trigger a 10‑foot buffer with a six‑foot screening fence, trees and shrubs.
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