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Zionsville board denies homeowners’ request to push patio into rear-yard setback
Summary
The Board of Zoning Appeals denied a variance that would have reduced the rear-yard setback from 25 to 10 feet for a permeable-paver patio at 10853 Bington Way in Holiday Farms, finding the petitioner did not meet the ordinance’s narrow “unnecessary hardship” standard.
The Board of Zoning Appeals on March 4 denied a request to encroach 15 feet into the rear-yard building setback to build an outdoor patio at 10853 Bington Way in the Holiday Farms planned unit development.
Jonathan, a Town of Zionsville planning staff member, told the board the proposal ‘‘meets all other applicable development standards in the PUD and does not encroach into the drainage or utility easement,’’ but recommended denial because the petitioner did not demonstrate the legally required ‘‘unnecessary hardship.’’ Staff concluded ‘‘strict application of the terms of the zoning ordinance would not…
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