Park Ridge · Special use
Social club special use for a cigar lounge at 626 Busse Highway
AI-assisted researchHow this was researched and checkedAfter a public hearing, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended that the City Council approve a special use (SU-25-13) for a social club or lodge, a members' cigar lounge operated by The Embassy Cigar Lounge, at 626 Busse Highway. Staff noted the site's parking fell short of the requirement and the applicant planned to reconfigure the lot. The vote was 8–0. The minutes cited are the draft version posted for approval at the next meeting. The City Council's own action is not part of this record.
Documented status: Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Aug 26 2025. Evidence dated . Later outcomes require a later source.
Official identifiers: SU-25-13
What changed, and when did it take effect?
· Committee recommendation · Recorded in draft minutes
Planning and Zoning Commission recommends approval
Meeting date: Aug 26 2025. Item IV.A: the motion carried (8 to 0). Address: 626 Busse Highway. Applicant: THE EMBASSY CIGAR LOUNGE.
p. 3 · Draft minutes of Approval of Minutes – August 26, 2025 (Draft Minutes), Planning and Zoning Commission, Sep 23 2025. Open the quote and source.
p. 2 · Draft minutes of Approval of Minutes – August 26, 2025 (Draft Minutes), Planning and Zoning Commission, Sep 23 2025. Open the quote and source.
p. 2 · Draft minutes of Approval of Minutes – August 26, 2025 (Draft Minutes), Planning and Zoning Commission, Sep 23 2025. Open the quote and source.
p. 1 · Draft minutes of Approval of Minutes – August 26, 2025 (Draft Minutes), Planning and Zoning Commission, Sep 23 2025. Open the quote and source.
What was requested, recommended, approved, contracted, reported paid and completed?
Amounts are read from the cited pages and added up by code. A recommendation, an award or an authorized amount does not establish that money was paid.
No amount is published for this item.
Contracts, payments and completion
No contract, payment or completion record is published for this item. Approval alone does not establish completion.
Which parcels, agencies, businesses and projects are explicitly connected?
Official identifiers and exhibit listings connect records. A name, an address or distance alone only suggests a connection.
Organizations and public bodies
- EMBASSY CIGAR LOUNGE (applicant)
What remains unresolved?
No condition or deadline is published for this item. That is a limit of the published research, not evidence that none exist.
Open questions
No open question is recorded for this item.
What does the evidence suggest, and what would change it?
No conflicting records are published for this item.
Permits at this address since the first recorded event
No approval, award or execution is recorded, so permits are counted after the first dated event, Aug 26, 2025 (Planning and Zoning Commission recommends approval).
Computed by code from the building permits in the Park Ridge property release (the county permit feed), as of Nov 1, 2026. A permit shows that work was authorized, not that it was completed, and no permit recorded does not establish that nothing was built. A parcel matched by address is nominated by the address written in the record; that does not prove the record concerns it.
Matched by address: 626 Busse Highway
626 Busse Hwy1 permit recorded after Aug 26, 2025 through Nov 1, 2026: Other; $257,500 in declared value; dated Feb 4, 2026.
Permits recorded after the decision at 626 Busse Hwy Issued Type Work Status Declared value Feb 4, 2026 Other REMODEL HIGH-END, UPSCALE CIGAR LOUNGE Open $257,500
Official source records
- Approval of Minutes – August 26, 2025 (Draft Minutes)
Planning and Zoning Commission, Sep 23 2025