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Dorchester County Board of Zoning Appeals denies variance for Whitehall Road accessory building
Summary
The Dorchester County Board of Zoning Appeals voted to deny a variance request from William Allen Dixon to expand an accessory building at 5528 Whitehall Road, finding the application failed to meet critical-area and general variance standards; planning staff recommended denial and said mitigation or vertical expansion were feasible alternatives.
The Dorchester County Board of Zoning Appeals on Feb. 11 denied a variance request that would have allowed a larger accessory building at 5528 Whitehall Road in Cambridge.
Chair Len Spicer opened the hearing and read the board’s procedures before planning staff summarized the application: the owner sought to replace a 1,010-square-foot accessory structure with a proposed 1,664-square-foot building — a net increase of roughly 654 square feet that would raise total lot coverage to about 6,831 square feet, beyond the county’s allowed coverage under the critical-area rules. Planning staff recommended denial, saying the applicant had not met the legal standards for a critical-area variance.
The board’s planner and critical-area office described…
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