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Mark Gibson seeks setback waiver to add garage inside Slide Brook buffer
Summary
Applicant Mark Gibson asked the Fayston Development Review Board for a side‑setback waiver to attach a 30-by-36-foot garage to a house that already lies entirely within the 100-foot Slide Brook stream buffer, offering site plan conditions and agreeing to downcast lighting and a turnaround plan as requested.
Mark Gibson asked the Fayston Development Review Board on May 6 to grant a side‑setback waiver to add a 30-by-36-foot attached garage to his home, which he said already sits fully within the 100‑foot Slide Brook stream buffer.
Gibson told the board the house was built in 1970 and expanded in 1994, and that a 1994 setback waiver allowed the earlier expansion to sit inside the buffer. "We have no existing garage and very little storage in the house; part of the garage will be storage," Gibson said, adding that he wants to relocate the laundry to the first floor of the new addition. He said the addition would be "moved as far away from the brook (Slide Brook) as possible."
Board members raised practical concerns about the proposed location near the property line shared with a 50‑foot strip owned by Sugarbush. DRB member Ky Koitzsch asked whether vehicles turning in front of the garage could encroach on the neighboring access strip and whether a turnaround was planned; Gibson replied, "we wouldn’t park our car in the garage; it would only be used for storage," and said he would not expand the driveway.
Zoning Administrator Jason Wilson asked whether the applicant would accept conditions: providing a site plan that shows a turnaround and the leach field location, and using downcast lighting. Gibson agreed to both conditions. The board reviewed applicable review standards, then closed the hearing by unanimous vote.
Next steps: the DRB closed the hearing and will consider the evidence and conditions in its deliberation; the minutes record the hearing closure but do not record a final waiver decision that night.
