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Boonton planning board approves variances for 412 Dixon Avenue; applicant to add two-car garage and enlarge home
Summary
The Boonton Planning Board approved variances for a residential addition and a two-car garage at 412 Dixon Avenue, citing an undersized lot and streetscape mitigation; the approval passed on a unanimous 8-0 roll-call vote after board discussion and engineer-recommended stormwater conditions.
Brian Murphy, a registered architect with Brian Murphy Architect, testified at the Boonton Planning Board meeting that the property at 412 Dixon Avenue is an undersized R-1A lot and that proposed additions are designed to preserve the house’s front appearance while adding interior space.
“This property is actually 9,278.3 square feet, so it is a little bit of an undersized lot,” Murphy said during his testimony, and he described requested variances including a rear-yard setback proposed at 19.1 feet (35 feet required) and a side-yard setback of 10.5 feet (15 feet required), plus increases in building and lot coverage.
The applicant proposed to add a two-car garage accessed by a single double door, relocate a…
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