O'Hern Business Park culvert and driveway variance
Description
Variance request to reconstruct a buried culvert and allow a driveway up to ~50 feet at the right-of-way and ~60 feet at the roadway, versus the 30/36-foot maximums. The board tabled it pending a professional truck-maneuvering analysis or an amended request.
Impact summary
Approving it would let 53-foot semis exit the site without running into the ditch and would restore drainage away from the barn and mulch business; staff argued the standard width is workable and the road reconstruction project may resolve the issues.
Applicant
- Name
- Gabriel J. O'Hern (O'Hern Business Park, LLC)
- Address
- N46 W23133 Lindsay Road, Pewaukee, WI 53072
At a glance
- Hearings
- 1
- Public comments
- 0
- Total mentions
- 1
Last vote · Zoning Board of Appeals
Last discussed Jul 13, 2026.
Meeting timeline (1)
Related issues (2)
Lindsay Road driveway variance and culvert flooding
A buried, non-functioning culvert on Lindsay Road is backing water into a historic barn and a mulch business, and semis can't safely turn out of the narrow permitted driveway. The city says the whole corridor floods and is slated for reconstruction with curb, gutter and storm sewer in its five-year plan, which may solve the drainage problem without a variance.
Lindsay Road truck traffic and neighborhood impacts
A neighbor near the business park supports fixing drainage but worries wider access means more semis, noise, early-morning forklift beeps and light spilling into yards. The board noted the variance wouldn't authorize more traffic, and the applicant said traffic has actually declined.
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