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Mesquite Board of Adjustment fails to approve 1,200 sq ft accessory structure at Clear Meadow Drive
Summary
The Board of Adjustment denied a special exception request to build a 1,200-square-foot, 21-foot-tall accessory structure to store an RV at 2941 Clear Meadow Drive after a 3-1 vote; approval would have required four affirmative votes because only four members were present. Staff had recommended approval conditioned on permitting prior unpermitted concrete work.
The Board of Adjustment of the City of Mesquite, Texas, voted 3-1 on Aug. 28 to deny a special exception request to allow a 1,200-square-foot, 21-foot-tall detached accessory structure at 2941 Clear Meadow Drive to be used to store an RV.
Tiara Clark of the Planning and Zoning Division told the board the property is in a planned-development single-family zone and sits on just under half an acre. The city’s typical accessory-structure limits are 500 square feet and 15 feet in height; the applicant proposed a 1,200-square-foot structure 21 feet tall. Clark said the lot coverage of the existing and proposed structures would be about 8% of the lot, under the ordinance’s provision limiting rear-yard coverage, and noted an existing permitted…
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