PERU – A Peru municipal official was granted a variance Tuesday night to build a boathouse and screen-enclosed porch on his Worthley Pond frontage property.
Michael Boyd, the town’s code enforcement officer, met with Peru’s Board of Appeals in the town office regarding his 48-acre property on the pond’s west side in the Murray Cove area.
Chairman Michael Hase said Wednesday night that the appellate body approved the variance with covenants and stipulations.
Boyd, of Dixfield, originally sought to build a gazebo-like structure to replace the previous property owner’s 28-foot camper that was 33 feet from water’s edge.
He said he removed the camper to make the lot more conforming and aesthetically pleasing, but he wanted to build a 28-foot-by-18-foot structure 75 feet from the water to store his four boats. Boyd said he also wanted to “have a place to sit in, out of the bugs.”
Hase said the covenants and stipulations were to reduce the size of the boathouse and enclosed deck from 28 feet to 24 feet. They also state that the boathouse will have no plumbing or running water.
Additionally, the structure’s screen-enclosed porch is to remain so in perpetuity, to prevent it from becoming a camp.
The boathouse is also being considered as a substructure to Boyd’s existing house, which means it cannot be sold as another lot, Hase said.
Boyd, he said, agreed to the stipulations, and must now seek a building permit from the Planning Board.
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