LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Board of Adjustment is scheduled to meet July 13 to consider seven zoning variance requests, ranging from increases in accessory building heights to setback adjustments for carports and residential additions.

The Board is established to grant variances, conditional use permits, and hear appeals from Building Inspection and Planning. The hearings begin at 1:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers at 200 East Main Street.

Staff have recommended approval for five of the six active applications. Among them is a request from Frederick and Megan Tonning to reduce the required side street setback from 30 feet to 22 feet for a carport in a single-family residential zone at 773 Lansdowne Circle in District 3. Staff noted the lot's restrictive triangular configuration as a special circumstance justifying the reduction and said the carport would not expand impervious surfaces on the property.

Another approval recommendation involves Parsons Green Development LLC's request for two variances at 400, 402 and 404 S. Mill Street in District 3: increasing maximum driveway width from 10 feet to 18 feet and accessory building height from 20 feet to 21 feet. Staff said the variances would maintain the historic pattern of development in the district.

Staff also recommended approval for Gibson Taylor Thompson's request to reduce side yard setback from 8 feet to 2 feet at 140 Cherokee Park in District 3 for a residential addition, and for Limestone 385 LLC to reduce front yard setback from 5 feet to 2.5 feet for a vestibule at 385 S. Limestone in District 3.

However, staff recommended disapproval of a variance requested by Ethan Skeeters at 3844 Walhampton Drive in District 4 to increase an accessory building's maximum height from 20 feet to 25 feet. Staff said the applicant failed to provide sufficient justification and that the structure could function at the current height without the second-story addition.

A seventh application from Michelle Ellen and William Tate Samet at 2330 Paris Pike in District 12 to expand an accessory structure from 1,248 square feet to 1,728 square feet is scheduled for postponement. The Paris Pike Corridor Commission, which administers protection and preservation of the historic roadway, is set to review the request on the same date before the Board takes final action.

All applicants and objectors planning to speak will be sworn in at the beginning of the hearing.