Notice of Public Hearing Stearns County, Board of Adjustment
Notice is hereby given that the Stearns County Board of Adjustment, in and for the County of -Stearns, will conduct a public hearing to consider variance applications on Thursday, September 23, 2021, in Room 1104, Stearns County Service Center, 3301 County Road 138, Waite Park, Minn., beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Public Hearings:
To consider a request from Jeff, Wade & Scott Nyren et al., South Haven, Minn., from Sections 10.2.11A.(2) & 10.2.11B.(2) of -Stearns County Land Use and Zoning Ordinance #439 to reconstruct a residential dwelling with attached garage ahead of the established building line partly in the shore impact zone of a lake classified recreational development. Also, to leave as constructed two water-oriented accessory structures. Said Ordinance requires a new residential dwelling with attached garage to be constructed landward of the established building line and no closer than 50 feet from the Ordinary High Water Level of a lake classified recreational development. Also, each lot may have only one water-
orientated accessory structure not meeting the normal structure setback requirements. Affected property: 48.12A P/O NW4NW4 & Govt Lots 1 & 2, Section 1, T121N, R28W, Fairhaven Township. Property address: 1862 Bayberry Road, South Haven, Minn.
To consider a request from Lee & Barbara Haugen, St. Paul Park, Minn., from Sections 5.1.2C.(2), 5.1.2C.(3), 10.2.11A.(2) & 10.2.11B.(2) of Stearns County Land Use and Zoning Ordinance #439 to construct a deck addition ahead of the established building line and a dwelling/porch addition onto a legal nonconforming residential dwelling in the shore impact zone of a lake classified Natural Environment. Also, to leave as constructed a water-oriented
accessory structure less than 25 feet from the Ordinary High Water Level. Said Ordinance requires additions on a legal nonconforming residential dwelling to be located landward of the established building line and outside the shore impact zone of 100 feet on a lake classified Natural Environment. Also requires a water-oriented accessory structure to be 25 feet from the OHWL of a lake classified Natural Environment. Affected property: Lot 26, Block 2, Clearwater Harbor, Section 32, T122N, R27W, Lynden Township. Property address: 223 Alder Road, South Haven, Minn.
To consider a request from Anne Ackerman & Kristina Miller, Clearwater, Minn., from Sections 5.1.2C.(2), 5.1.2C.(3), 9.9.9A.(1) & 10.2.11A.(2) of Stearns County Land Use and Zoning Ordinance #439 to construct an addition on a legal nonconforming residential dwelling that is ahead of the established building line, within the shore impact zone of a lake classified Natural Environment and less than 10 feet from a side property line. Also, to leave as constructed a deck that is located ahead of the established building line, within the shore impact zone of a lake classified Natural Environment and less than 10 feet from a side property line and to leave as constructed two (2) water-oriented accessory structures. Said Ordinance requires an addition and a deck on a legal nonconforming residential dwelling to be located landward of the established building line, outside of the shore impact zone and at least 10 feet from a side property line. Also only allows for one (1) water-oriented accessory structure not meeting the normal structure setback requirements. Affected property: Lot 24, Block 1, Shores Point, Section 8, T122N, R27W, Lynden Township. Property address: 18418 Eaglewood Road, -Clearwater, Minn.
If you would like to provide public testimony, either in support or in opposition to a request, you are invited to do so by attending said hearing in-person or by joining virtually. To participate virtually, please contact Jamie Lucas at jamie.lucas@co.stearns.mn.us or call him at (320) 656-3613 by noon on the Wednesday preceding the meeting date. You may submit written testimony by emailing him by 3:00 p.m. on the meeting date or by mail to the Environmental Services Department, Stearns County Service Center, 3301 County Road 138, Waite Park, MN 56387.
Comments received are not limited to those persons receiving this public hearing notice. If you know of any interested person, who for any reason has not received this notice, please inform them of this public hearing date.
Copies of applications and related information are on file and can be viewed on Meetings on Demand approximately one week prior to the meeting at http://-stearnscountymn.iqm2.com/-Citizens/Default.aspx. Meeting webcasts are broadcast live on this website location, and actions taken on these requests will be available on the website shortly after the meeting.
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Published in the Tri-County News Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021.