The Board of Adjustment
The Board of Adjustment meet as required on the fourth Thursday of the month at 7pm in the Public Works Conference Room of City Hall. They are solely responsible for granting permanent variances to properties for perpetuity. These ore not suggestions made to the Board of Aldermen like other Committees, these are actual decisions regarding these issues. Variances for setbacks and ground coverage can have relief up 35% by this commission. They also have jurisdiction in relieving restrictions held by the Sign Ordinance. Petitioners have to submit a $125 non-refindable fee to cover official notification expenses for their request and there is strict criteria regarding any possible granting of a variance that include:
- if the variance was not granted, the property owner could not make any reasonable use of the property
- the difficulties must be peculiar to the property
- the hardship was not a result of the applicant's own action
- the issuance of a variance will not be detrimental to the public
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Last Updated on May 12, 2006