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Property owners granted reduced side setback to attach garage in Spirit Lake
Summary
The Dickinson County Board of Adjustment approved a reduced side-yard setback and condition that the new garage be attached, allowing Katherine and James Peters to attach a garage with a 9-foot setback (approved 5-0) after staff clarified the published notice did not specify attachment.
Katherine Peters requested a variance to build a garage at 25076 182nd Street, asking to reduce the southeast side-yard setback from the required 30 feet to 3 feet as published. Peters told the board the parcel’s shape left ‘‘no side yards and no backyards for setbacks,’’ and that the proposed garage will include gutters to manage runoff.
Board members noted the public notice did not specify whether the structure would be attached to the house. Planning and Zoning Administrator Megan Kardell said the notice could allow an amendment. Board member Douglas Westerman moved to require the garage be attached, to set the side-yard setback at 9 feet (rather than the 3 feet originally published if detached), and to require utilities be located and marked; Alex Oponski seconded. The motion passed unanimously, 5-0 (Ashland, Clark, Oponski, Westerman, Berhow).
The board’s action reduces the published variance requirement by making the structure attached, and adds a condition that utilities be marked before construction. The decision is procedural (a variance granted with conditions); no appeal period or other next steps were announced at the meeting.
