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Board allows 10×10 shed to remain in sideyard at 438 Cove Street
Summary
The Board granted a variance permitting a 10×10 accessory structure to encroach into the sideyard at 438 Cove Street to protect a golf cart and avoid disturbing landscaping; staff found no significant adverse impacts.
The Sandusky Board of Zoning and Appeals approved a request from property owner Dorothy Bird to allow a 10×10 by roughly 8½‑foot‑tall accessory structure to occupy a portion of the sideyard at 438 Cove Street. Staff said the structure overlaps the sideyard by approximately six feet but leaves adequate circulation and does not materially reduce remaining parking or create other neighborhood harms.
Bird told the board the shed is intended to shelter a golf cart and to avoid removing garden and landscaping if the structure were placed elsewhere on the lot: "I just want to house my golf cart because the weather down there is horrible and it's tore apart carports and everything else," she said. Staff confirmed the shed meets the square-footage definition for an accessory 'shed' rather than a garage and observed no objections from other departments.
The board voted to approve the variance with the standard condition that applicable building and engineering permits be obtained prior to construction or modification.
