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Board grants setback variance for house at Buena Vista Avenue and Pewaukee Road (tax key WAKC1000071)
Summary
The Waukesha City Board of Zoning Appeals unanimously approved a variance on Feb. 16, 2026, permitting a single-family home to be built 10 feet from Buena Vista Avenue at the triangular lot (tax key WAKC1000071); the board found the standard variance criteria satisfied and recorded a 4–0 vote.
The Waukesha City Board of Zoning Appeals on Feb. 16 granted a dimensional variance permitting construction of a single-family house on a triangular, substandard lot at the intersection of Buena Vista Avenue and Pewaukee Road (tax key WAKC1000071). The requested street-yard setback is 10 feet from Buena Vista Avenue, where the RS-3 zoning district ordinarily requires 25 feet.
City planning staff described the lot as triangular, about 6,700 square feet, and noted the steep grade on Pewaukee Road that would require a home partially built into the hill with a garage opening toward Pewaukee. Staff…
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