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Fresno County supervisors approve variance to split a 5.09‑acre Willow Bluff parcel despite staff recommendation
Summary
After days of public testimony and debate over water and zoning policy, the Fresno County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to overturn the planning commission’s denial and approve variance application No. 4181 to split a roughly 5.09‑acre parcel into two ~2.55‑acre parcels in the Willow Bluff area.
Fresno County supervisors voted unanimously March 3 to grant a variance that will allow a landowner to split an existing roughly 5.09‑acre parcel in the Willow Bluff area into two about 2.55‑acre parcels, overturning a prior denial from the county planning commission.
The public hearing centered on whether the four findings required for a variance could be made. Tawanda Matunga of Public Works and Planning summarized staff’s conclusion that the planning commission could not reach the necessary findings at its August 2025 hearing. Appellant counsel Austin Ewell, representing the landowner, told supervisors the application was filed before the county’s 2024 general‑plan redesignation and presented a hydrogeology study the…
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