PZ 24-023.
APPLICANT: Assatou Barry and Ibrahim Diallo
SPECIAL USE: To allow front yard privacy fence at the Story Road Frontage, per UDC Table 4-1.
LOCATION: 3401 Redwood Forest Lane SW
ZONING: R-15(C) ACRES: 0.346 ac PIN: 19082100470
Staff Recommendation: Approval Planning and Zoning Recommendation:
BACKGROUND: The subject site is located within Cameron Springs subdivision within the Residential (R15C) zoning district. The subdivision was originally approved on May 2, 2005, consisting of 152 single-family units. The applicant purchased the property in November 2018.
The applicant requests to allow the fence to remain at the Story Road frontage, and they wish to expand the front yard encroachment by installing additional fencing at the Story Road frontage to enclose the HVAC unit to create a larger enclosed area in their yard. Staff expressed to the applicant that there is no support for expanding the non-compliant conditions by allowing the fence to be expanded further into the front yard to also enclose the HVAC unit.
In 2020, the applicants illegally cleared adjacent HOA property, and were compelled to revegetate that property, however the trees planted to resolve that issue did not survive. The problem was compounded when the applicants fenced in the HOA property. Code enforcement action related to the fence was initiated in August 2023, after the applicants enclosed said HOA property within their fenced area. The fence has since been removed from HOA property, and the applicant is now seeking Special Use approval to allow the fence to remain at the road frontage.
The neighboring property has open code enforcement violation related to unpermitted gazebo and fencing on HOA property. Additionally, the property across the street also has a non-compliant privacy fence at the Story Road frontage - they have been referred to code enforcement, but a violation was not on record as of the dra...
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