An addition to a house was approved June 11 by the Salisbury Township Zoning Hearing Board.

The vote was 5-0 to approve the appeal of Elizabeth Marcon and Joshua Hauck, 2910 Fairfield Drive, requesting variance relief to construct a two-story addition to their residence with a rear-yard setback of 28.34 feet (40 feet required).

The corner property at Fairfield Drive and Greenbriar Lane is in the R2, Low Density Residential zoning district.

Attorney Ian Baxter, zoning hearing board vice chairman, made the motion, seconded by zoning hearing board member Nicholas Birosik, to bring the appeal to a vote.

“The house is situated on a diagonal,” Marcon said. “We’ve kind of outgrown the house,” she said, noting she and Hauck, her husband, have four children.

“Many of the homes in the area have additions. We’ve spoken with neighbors and they have no objections [to the proposed addition],” Marcon said.

“The back [of the house] is the only direction that we could add on,” Marcon said.

The two-story addition would add 484-square-feet to the two-story 1,855-square-feet single residence built in 1970. A patio and deck would be removed. A new deck would be built.

The kitchen would be expanded and a new family room would be added on the first floor. A new bedroom would be added on the second floor.

Concerning the appeal, Birosik said before the vote, “These conditions were unduly imposed on you because of the nature of the property.”

“The lot creates a hardship,” Baxter said before the vote.

“It’s a dimensional variance request,” Zoning Board Solicitor Attorney William Fries, of Fitzpatrick, Lentz, and Bubba, PC., said before the vote, adding, “Clearly, we have a diagonally-built house. It was not created by the applicants.”

The Salisbury Township Zoning Hearing Board is next scheduled to meet 7 p.m. July 9 in the municipal building, 2900 S. Pike Ave.