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St. Tammany Board of Adjustments approves multiple variances, postpones mosque parking request
Summary
The St. Tammany Parish Board of Adjustments approved variances affecting a school practice field, two residential additions/structures and an accessory building, and postponed a parking-buffer request from the Jefferson Muslim Association to allow the applicant to collect neighborhood verification.
The St. Tammany Parish Board of Adjustments approved four property variances and continued a separate parking-buffer request after public discussion and staff recommendations.
The board voted to grant a pair of variances for a proposed baseball practice facility at 115 Dummy Line Road in Madisonville, subject to staff conditions including planting the required 9 class B trees and 29 shrubs on the practice site or on the adjacent Lake Castle School property, executing a recorded cross-access agreement between parcels and filing a recorded, notarized acknowledgment that the property owner will pay for any future installation of an 8-foot opaque fence requested by adjacent owners. Manny Estrada, appearing for the absent owner, said the field will be used by Lake Castle School and described safety and sight-line concerns that informed the fence and planting requests. "It's very important to him to get this variance passed,"…
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