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Council approves homeowner variance to place backup generator 40 inches inside rear-yard limit
Summary
The council unanimously granted a variance allowing a home generator at 255 1st Avenue North to encroach about 40 inches into the 25-foot rear-yard minimum, subject to conditions including landscaping, fencing, and noise mitigation; petitioner cited hurricane-related outages and site constraints.
Council approved a resolution granting petition 25-V-6 to allow a home generator to be sited 21.25 feet from the rear property line (short roughly 40 inches of the 25-foot requirement) at 255 1st Avenue North.
Petitioner Stacy Vermillan described neighborhood power outages, a transformer near the rear of her home and limited siting options that would avoid removing mature landscaping. "This area…
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