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Chair opened the meeting, took roll call (Margaret Clements, Skip Daley, Guy Lofman, Jeff Morris present), introduced evidence into the record (Monroe County Development Ordinance; Comprehensive Plan; BZA rules; legally advertised cases), and approved the published agenda. Motion to introduce evidence and to adopt the agenda passed unanimously (votes recorded 3–0 at roll call stage).
The Monroe County Board of Zoning Appeals met to hear variances and conditional-use requests across the county, including disputes over slope and floodplain encroachments, several accessory-dwelling unit requests, and a multi-parcel Chick-fil-A site plan. The board denied a slope-encroachment variance in the Lake Monroe watershed, approved a conditional move of an accessory dwelling into the flood fringe with a completion deadline, granted multiple commercial variances for a Chick-fil-A site with conditions, and split decisions on a disputed unpermitted garage that neighbors say has caused erosion and access problems.
