A 2,273-square-foot detached guest house and garage can be constructed in front of a home in Las Sendas, the Mesa Board of Adjustment decided recently.
The board on Sept. 1 voted unanimously in a consent agenda with other items to allow the detached casita at 3759 N. Hawes Road, with Vice Chair Nicole Lynam and board member Ethel Hoffman absent.
“There are special circumstances that apply to the site. I should actually go back and mention that there are some encumbrances on the property,” Mesa Planner Evan Balmer said in a study session before the meeting. “There is a pretty significant drainage easement ... so that’s why the casita wasn’t placed on that side of the property. They also want to maintain some viewsheds ... the city viewshed and the mountain-preserve viewshed — so they didn’t want to place it further up towards Hawes. So that’s why it’s located where it is.”
