BOARD OF ZONING AND APPEALS MINUTES
Date: December 14, 2009
(These minutes were published in the Jan. 22, 2010 Bluffton council packet)
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: 218 S. Main Street
BZA: Bill Gable, Gordon Diller, and John Harbison
Administration: Nancy Benroth
Petitioner: Sean & JoLynn Burrell, and Meg Burrell
The legal notice was published in the Bluffton News on December 3, 2009.
Letters were sent to all the property owners within 200 feet of all property lines.
As bad as 2009 was, the Village of Bluffton's budget dodged the financial bullet in the year just past.
According to Nancy Kindle, village fiscal officer, Bluffton's cash balances decreased by $295,008 in 2009. The streetscape program was completed at a cost of $230,244 and $600,000 of the town hall debt was retired. Those figures were revealed at the Jan. 11 council meeting - the first meeting of 2010.
It appears 2010 is a "breather" year for the Village of Blfufton budget. Bluffton council okayed its 2010 budget on Dec. 28. The general fund total is $2,138,316. That's lower than the 2009 general fund budget of $2,331,215.
The Bluffton board of zoning and appeals granted a rear yard variance in a hearing held Dec. 14.
The variance of eight feet was requested by petitioners Sean and JoLynn Burrell and Meg Burrell for a property at 218 S. Main St.
The purpose of hearing was to consider the variance for an addition to the house at the address. A garage and second story will be added to the back of the house into the rear yard.
