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Planning board recommends code tweaks to allow accessory structures on corner lots with screening
Summary
The Satellite Beach Planning and Advisory Board recommended amendments to allow certain accessory structures closer to sidewalks on corner lots, add setback clarifications and require screening or buffer to limit visual impacts; the board approved the draft with added screening language.
The Satellite Beach Planning and Advisory Board voted to recommend draft code changes to clarify and relax rules for accessory structures on corner lots while adding screening requirements.
Staff outlined the proposal as part of code housekeeping: the draft revises how the code treats the “second front yard” on corner lots so that small accessory structures (sheds, gazebos, tiki huts) may be located in a defined area with size- and setback-based limits. Staff emphasized permanent accessory structures still require engineering and permits (including wind-uplift considerations) and noted small temporary structures below a size threshold are treated differently.
Residents and board members raised privacy and sight-line concerns, asking whether neighbors could end up looking directly at a shed without screening. “If you live on a corner lot, I would want to put a shed there if I didn't have a fence to screen out somebody,” said Diane Douglas, a Satellite Beach resident. Board members recommended adding required screening (a fence or landscape buffer) consistent with other parts of the code; the board moved and voted to recommend the draft ordinance with the additional screening language.
The board also discussed fence setbacks and conformity for existing nonconforming fences; members supported language to allow some fences to go to the property line where they are already in place, reducing repeated BOA variance requests.
What happens next: The board’s recommended changes, including the added screening requirement, will be forwarded to City Council for ordinance drafting and possible adoption.
