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Addition to a nonconforming house at 17 N. Merrill Street

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The applicant (John L. Bavester), represented by Neri Architects, sought major variances at 17 N. Merrill Street to add to a house whose north wall, including the chimney, encroaches into the required interior side yard. On November 29, 2018 the Zoning Board of Appeals voted 5–0 to recommend approval to the City Council, according to the staff cover memorandum to the Council. The department's annual report lists the variances as approved by the City Council. The parcel is PIN 09-25-326-012-0000.

Documented status: Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Nov 29 2018. Evidence dated . Later outcomes require a later source.

What changed, and when did it take effect?

  1. · Committee recommendation · Recorded in draft minutes

    Zoning Board of Appeals recommends approval to the City Council

    Hearing date: Nov 29 2018. Item IV.2: the motion carried (5 to 0). Address: 17 N. Merrill Street. Applicant: JOHN L. BAVESTER. Consultant: NERI ARCHITECTS.

    • p. 4 · Draft minutes of Meeting on November 29, 2018 (revised to incorporate corrections) (Revised Minutes), Zoning Board of Appeals, Feb 28 2019. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Draft minutes of Meeting on November 29, 2018 (revised to incorporate corrections) (Revised Minutes), Zoning Board of Appeals, Feb 28 2019. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Staff memo of First Reading of an Ordinance Granting Zoning Variances to Allow Structural Alterations and Addition 17 N. Merrill (VA-18-0006) (Memorandum), City Council, Dec 17 2018. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Staff memo of First Reading of an Ordinance Granting Zoning Variances to Allow Structural Alterations and Addition 17 N. Merrill (VA-18-0006) (Memorandum), City Council, Dec 17 2018. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 4 · Draft minutes of Meeting on November 29, 2018 (revised to incorporate corrections) (Revised Minutes), Zoning Board of Appeals, Feb 28 2019. 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.

Properties named in the records

Organizations and public bodies

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, Nov 29, 2018 (Zoning Board of Appeals recommends approval to the City Council).

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.

  • Listed in a draft exhibit

    17 N Merrill St

    No permits recorded after Nov 29, 2018 through Nov 1, 2026.

Official source records

  1. Meeting on November 29, 2018 (revised to incorporate corrections) (Revised Minutes)

    Zoning Board of Appeals, Feb 28 2019

  2. First Reading of an Ordinance Granting Zoning Variances to Allow Structural Alterations and Addition 17 N. Merrill (VA-18-0006) (Memorandum)

    City Council, Dec 17 2018

Editions and corrections

Each published change is a new edition. Corrections say what changed and why.

  1. Edition 2(current)

    Edition 2: 2 revised.

  2. Edition 1Read this edition

    First edition.

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Suggested citation: GroundSignal, “Addition to a nonconforming house at 17 N. Merrill Street,” sources reviewed 2026-09-27, source records listed on this page.

Initial permanent evidence page published September 10, 2026. Follow the dated evidence above for later additions and changes. A source-check date alone does not establish a government action or project outcome.