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Front porch enlargement variance at 324 Courtland Avenue

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The Zoning Board of Appeals recommended that the City Council approve a major variance allowing the enlargement of a nonconforming front porch at 324 Courtland Avenue. The vote was 7–0. These are draft minutes; the final City Council action is not part of this record.

Documented status: Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Jul 25 2019. 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 of the porch variance

    Hearing date: Jul 25 2019. Item IV.A: the motion carried (7 to 0). Address: 324 Courtland Avenue.

    • p. 1 · Draft minutes of Meeting on July 25, 2019 (draft) (Minutes), Zoning Board of Appeals, Aug 29 2019. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Draft minutes of Meeting on July 25, 2019 (draft) (Minutes), Zoning Board of Appeals, Aug 29 2019. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Draft minutes of Meeting on July 25, 2019 (draft) (Minutes), Zoning Board of Appeals, Aug 29 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.

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, Jul 25, 2019 (Zoning Board of Appeals recommends approval of the porch variance).

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: 324 Courtland Avenue

    324 Courtland Ave

    2 permits recorded after Jul 25, 2019 through Nov 1, 2026: Other; $16,867 in declared value; first May 18, 2020, last Jun 9, 2022.

    Permits recorded after the decision at 324 Courtland Ave
    IssuedTypeWorkStatusDeclared value
    Jun 9, 2022OtherPATIO AND WALKClosed$14,387
    May 18, 2020OtherREPLACING FRONT CONCRETE WALK WITH PAVERSClosed$2,480

Official source records

  1. Meeting on July 25, 2019 (draft) (Minutes)

    Zoning Board of Appeals, Aug 29 2019

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Suggested citation: GroundSignal, “Front porch enlargement variance at 324 Courtland Avenue,” sources reviewed 2026-09-24, source records listed on this page.

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