Board of Adjustments sticks with ‘no’ for Twin Lakes variance request

A Twin Lakes landowner tried, unsuccessfully, to convince members of the Calhoun County Board of Adjustments to grant a variance allowing him to build a home closer to what the county zoning administrator considers to be a back lot line.
Dave Madsen, who developed the subdivision on North Twin Lake’s east side and who owns a lot there, argued the triangular lot on which he wants to build doesn’t have a rear lot line, and therefore he only needed to locate the house he wants to build 10 feet from one of the side lot lines. Calhoun County Zoning Administrator Mike Moeller denied a permit for the house with that setback.
Madsen previously was denied a permit for the same property, and the Board of Adjustments rejected his variance request; Madsen filed suit in District Court to appeal the ruling, but a judge dismissed the case on a technical error.
Moeller, in explaining his decision to the board Dec. 20, said the front lot line is not in dispute, because of the road that fronts the lot. 
Read more in the Dec. 27 edition.