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Board grants variance to build on Maxwell Lane lot but requires recorded riparian easement
Summary
The Bloomington Board of Zoning Appeals approved a variance 4–0 allowing relief from two outer riparian buffer zones at 2214 East Maxwell Lane, but required the owner to record an easement covering buffer areas and left the 25-foot streamside buffer intact.
The Bloomington Board of Zoning Appeals voted unanimously Thursday to grant a variance that clears the way for a single-family house to be built on a vacant lot at 2214 East Maxwell Lane, subject to conditions including a recorded riparian easement.
Gabriel Holbrow, zoning planner for the City of Bloomington, told the board that the 0.61-acre lot contains an intermittent stream and three riparian buffers that together extend about 75 feet. Staff recommended relief from the intermediate and fringe zones on the north side of the stream but opposed any permanent relief from the 25-foot streamside zone, saying in the staff report that…
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