Interesting. I do remember a case where the Surveyor went thru the county but not the HOA, then the HOA got upset and turned the Surveyor into the Board for a 0.1' side tie discrepancy. The Surveyor had to hire an attorney...
> I never miss a chance to cram something up a HOA's rectum with extreme prejudice.
Ah yes. Most of the HOA board members and its cohorts don't know what I do for a living.
I really enjoy a good CRAMMING session myself.
Variance process - the list
It looks like they have a pretty elaborate process for making sure your application package is complete, but I wonder if they also have any sort of pre-application meeting process, formal or informal, where you can meet with some of the people involved in preparing the Staff Report to kind of gauge your odds of success before going through the whole application ordeal. They probably can't guarantee the outcome but if there's a huge roadblock, they might be able to tell you to forget the whole thing.
Variance process - the list
Nothing like that was mentioned anywhere
Macheteman
How much of a variance setback value is involved here?
*IF* you really want to get into the waters of zoning variances then head down to planning and get a copy of a map and application form that has recently been approved and use those as your guidelines. You can probably get hold of one that is very similar to what you want to do. As far as not going through the proper channels just avoid that completely.
Macheteman
It's substantial, we're talking about going from a 25' minimum down to a 10.5', tho keep in mind it's in an estate style subdivision, the lots are on an airfield
Macheteman
So, for whatever reason, the HOA is OK with the reduction in setback. What is the County's minimum for that zone? If it's greater than 10 feet, I'd either go through the county process or walk away if your client wants to take a chance on the County not finding out. Won't there be inspectors crawling around looking at the new garage construction? Maybe they will be aware of County setbacks and wondering who was involved in this garage being placed where it is?
Many years ago, our company had a minor architectural department where we would produce plans for single-family or small apartment buildings or garage additions and stuff. This was done under my former partner's civil engineering license. We did a plan for a detached garage and the client did his own site plan and layout on-site. He violated a setback and 25 years later, I'm not sure I've heard the last of that problem from the pain-in-the-butt neighbor that wants to make me, and whoever else was involved, responsible for the violation. We finally did a boundary adjustment at the garage owner's expense to correct the setback violation but the neighbor seems to think he's got a big hammer he can bring down on my head if he needs to.
Macheteman
I don't believe my client would attempt to build without the variance.