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Applicant apologizes, details repairs and costs in Mint Hill variance hearing
Summary
At a Mint Hill board hearing, applicant Maria Adzas said she began construction without permits during personal hardship, has since sought inspections and engineering work, and said tearing down or relocating the structure would be devastating after roughly $200,000 in home renovations.
Maria Adzas, the property owner applying for variance V26-02 at 6213 Elkington Lane, told the board she accepts responsibility for starting work without a permit and asked for leniency because of personal hardship and expenses tied to renovating the house. "I do understand that, it's my fault. I not proud of what happened ... I do apologize for that," she told the board, explaining she moved to Mint Hill after leaving New York and that she and her family have invested heavily in the property.
Adzas said she has pulled permits, hired licensed electricians and plumbers, retained an engineer who requested footing reinforcement, and installed drainage around the house. She told the board she had collected about four neighbor signatures in support while working 12-hour shifts at the airport. Her attorney, David Sherman of Weaver, Bennett, and Bland, told the board the applicant has completed plumbing and electrical inspections and that other existing backyard structures were permitted; Sherman argued the requested variance was needed because of existing pool plumbing and site constraints.
