Just curious if anyone has any real-world experience with applying for a variance or appealing setback requirements for a residential home in Jeffco.

I've been looking it up online and I think I found the forms, just going through them now.

Situation is this: We have a corner lot and right now the yard that sits on the side of the driveway is pretty much useless to us. We want to fence it off but setback requirements prohibit us from putting a fence forward of the front face of the house. In most cases I agree with this requirement but in our case it would actually just be an extension of the neighbor's back fence (because we're on a corner) so it really wouldn't look that bad, nor would it impede visibility. It would also double the size of our usable fenced in "back" yard.

I know appealing a setback requirement is going to be a tough sell but I wanted to know if anyone here had actually done it. Other than filing fees it won't cost us anything since I'll be doing the legal work for myself.

Thanks in advance!