> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://websterledger.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Webster zoning board approves two variances, food truck request tabled to December - URL: https://websterledger.com/webster-zba-recap-august-11-2026/ - Published: 2026-08-12T12:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-08-12T11:59:59.000Z - Description: The Zoning Board of Appeals approved a privacy fence and a front setback Tuesday, both 5-0. A request to park a food truck in a backyard was tabled to December at the applicant's request. - Author: Morgan VanDerLeest - Tags: Planning & development, Government The Webster Zoning Board of Appeals approved two residential area variances Tuesday night, one for a six-foot privacy fence on a corner lot and one for a new house that will sit inside the required front setback. Both votes were 5-0\. A third application, to park a food truck in a backyard, was tabled to December at the applicant's request. ## A six-foot fence on a corner lot The board granted a Cardile Drive homeowner permission to build a six-foot privacy fence in the front yard of a corner lot. The code bars solid and chain-link fences from a front setback outright, and holds any other fence there to four feet. Under the code a corner lot's side yard counts as a front yard, which is what made the fence a variance request. The applicant said he had moved in a few weeks earlier, and that he and his wife have a young dog and a child on the way. Asked what six feet achieves that four cannot, he said he understood the code to allow four feet, in picket or chain link. "I just rather feel more comfortable with the six foot so I'm not on display with the rest of the neighborhood," he said. At least two residents spoke, both with questions rather than objections. One asked whether drivers would be able to see around the fence. A board member answered that two oak trees stand at the corner with the fence line set inside them. The other said they had lived in the neighborhood since 2004, when the town allowed fences only where there was a pool and none at all on corner lots. They asked what had changed, and whether other neighbors could now do the same. A board member said front-yard fences are not permitted under the code, that the applicant was asking for relief from that rule, and that the board was looking only at this property. The board had granted the same relief [on July 14](https://websterledger.com/zba-recap-july-14-solar-denied-waterview-tabled/), approving a six-foot privacy fence in the front yard of a corner lot on Bright Stream Way, where it noted an existing tree line that screened the fence from view. The board found that a four-foot fence would not give the applicant the privacy he wanted, and that the variance was not significant, describing it as two additional feet. It found the difficulty self-created because the applicant had bought a corner lot. The applicant still needs a permit for the fence itself and has one year to finish the work. ## A food truck, and a request to wait A Hailey Drive homeowner asked to keep a 20-foot commercial food truck in their backyard, on a crushed stone pad next to a shed. The applicant told the board they had made the same request a little over a year earlier, and that the truck would sit there seasonally, May through September, starting next year. Town agendas show that earlier application was withdrawn before the board acted on it. The truck is currently in the way of deliveries and driveway parking, the applicant said, and completely visible to adjoining neighbors. The pad would put it "completely out of the way covered by foliage during these months." The neighbors next door are in the process of moving out but are still there, the applicant said, and they have a problem with the request. The applicant asked the board whether to wait until they had gone. The applicant was told the board would not give advice, and that an applicant controls the application and can go forward or ask to have it held. Tabling the request would not make the board set aside the visibility and aesthetic questions that would apply to anyone living in that neighboring property, whether or not those neighbors come to speak. The board had already heard the application once, the applicant was told, and it was not clear how much a delay would change its review. The applicant asked to have the application held. Offered October 14, November 17 and December 8, the applicant chose December 8, and was told, "We'll see you on 12-8." ## What the 41 feet is measured to The third application was for a new single-family home on Vosburg Road. It sought a front setback of 41 feet where the code requires 50. David Cox, P.E., a civil engineer representing the homeowners, told the board the 41 feet is measured to a covered entryway. The house itself would sit farther back. "The majority of the structure would be 46 feet with that small covered entryway being 41 feet in the front setback," he said. This lot is also a corner lot, which gives it two front setbacks. Cox said the mature trees along Vosburg would be preserved, and that shifting the house to clear the front setback would push it toward a closer neighbor. One resident, who said they live across the street, asked how large the house would be and raised construction debris and traffic. A board member said the plan appeared to address most of those concerns, and that the board's decision was limited to the setback. The board found that the corner lot reduces the buildable area and that the difficulty was therefore not self-created. It approved the variance 5-0\. Permitting follows, with one year to reach substantial completion. ## Waterview Phase 3 was not discussed [Waterview Apartments Phase 3](https://websterledger.com/webster-zba-preview-august-11-2026/), a 56-unit apartment project at Willow Point Way and Nautical Mile Drive, was listed first on the agenda, under tabled matters, with a note saying it is tabled until September. The recording of Tuesday's meeting contains no discussion of it. The chair opened by saying the board had three scheduled matters, and the three it took up were the fence, the food truck and the Vosburg Road home. The agenda names no date for that meeting, and no one named one on the recording. The town's published calendar puts the board's September meeting on Sept. 8. ## Get Webster news in your inbox Independent local journalism for Webster, NY. Subscribe free Email sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime. --- *AI tools were used in drafting and research.*