KENT—The Planning and Zoning Commission last week granted an application from Abigail Spath of 255 Kent Rd. for a greenhouse accessory structure.
Spath was seeking a special permit to put the little building within the 100-foot setback from the south side of her property. PZC Chairman Wesley Wyrick told her that with the building already designed to be set back 72 feet from the road, she could move it another 28 feet and avoid having to have a special permit.
But Spath said she wanted the building relatively close to the road to have a place to safely get her kids, who are young, when they get off the school bus.
She said she would press ahead with the special permit because she felt the building would be more esthetically pleasing tucked into a curve of their drive and would be less visible to passing traffic. She anticipates using the building for potting plants and the like while waiting for the children.
Land Use Administrator Tai Kern said there are two regulations, not conflicting but slightly different that cover accessory buildings in front of a main building. “One calls for a special permit and the other for the 100 feet,” she explained. Both regulations would be covered by the special permit.
“My only question was the way it relates to the road and whether it would blend in,” she said. “It seems there is enough shielding with mature shrubs and second level of other shrubs.”
Also approved was an application from Don Lawson and Meg Currie of 101 Macedonia Rd., whose home is in the Horizon Line Zone. They wanted to raise the roof four feet on a shed and, farther down the slope, build a barn behind their house.
Wyrick said he had been to the site and neither structure would break the horizon line. “Without driving in, you wouldn’t have seen the house,” he said. “Really, there is no impact.”
