Board allows rear setback variance for Wagner property, denies side setback over runoff concerns

Jul 29, 2026

The Brown County Board of Zoning Appeals approved a rear setback variance for 7446 Honey Locust Drive but denied the requested one-foot side setback, imposing a condition that the petitioner install a gutter system to prevent runoff to the west property line.

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President John Dillberger and the Brown County Board of Zoning Appeals on July 29 approved a rear setback variance for Todd and Jill Wagner’s property at 7446 Honey Locust Drive (Nineveh, Hamblen Township) but denied the requested one-foot side setback. Planning Director Kayla Robertson read the staff report before petitioner Todd Wagner described the removal of a decorative concrete wall and the proposed lightweight roof supported on 6-inch steel posts, about 8 to 9 feet tall.

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