Variance granted by Locust Grove council

The Locust Grove City Council voted at its March 9 regular meeting to approve a variance that reduces the front-yard setback requirement from 40 to 12.55 feet for a lot in the Grove Village subdivision.

According to a city staff report, an “unintentional field inspection error” led to a house being constructed while encroaching on the setback standard, and denial of the variance “would leave a family preparing to move in to their contracted new home in a possible prolonged state of being without a home and cause an undue hardship.”

Officials said that the variance would not make the property inconsistent with the community’s existing residences.

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