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Detached garage size variance at 420 Courtland Avenue

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The Zoning Board of Appeals recommended that the City Council approve a major variance allowing an existing detached garage at 420 Courtland Avenue, on a double lot, to be expanded beyond the maximum size for detached garages. The recommendation was amended with a condition that the current applicants not build a second structure on the property. The minutes record that the amended motion carried on a roll call vote.

Documented status: Committee recommendation (recorded), Nov 19 2020. Evidence dated . Later outcomes require a later source.

What changed, and when did it take effect?

  1. · Committee recommendation · Recorded in minutes

    Zoning Board of Appeals recommends approval of the garage size variance with a condition

    Hearing date: Nov 19 2020. Item IV.A: the motion carried. Condition (construction): the current applicants do not construct a second structure on their property should the variance be approved. Address: 420 Courtland Avenue.

    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of Zoning Board of Appeals minutes, 2020-11-19, Zoning Board of Appeals, Nov 19 2020. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Approved minutes of Zoning Board of Appeals minutes, 2020-11-19, Zoning Board of Appeals, Nov 19 2020. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Approved minutes of Zoning Board of Appeals minutes, 2020-11-19, Zoning Board of Appeals, Nov 19 2020. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of Zoning Board of Appeals minutes, 2020-11-19, Zoning Board of Appeals, Nov 19 2020. 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.

No explicit connection is published for this item.

What remains unresolved?

  • Open

    the current applicants do not construct a second structure on their property should the variance be approved

    Confirm dates with the City before relying on them.

    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of Zoning Board of Appeals minutes, 2020-11-19, Zoning Board of Appeals, Nov 19 2020. Open the quote and source.

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 19, 2020 (Zoning Board of Appeals recommends approval of the garage size variance with a condition).

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: 420 Courtland Avenue

    420 Courtland Ave

    2 permits recorded after Nov 19, 2020 through Nov 1, 2026: Other; $22,400 in declared value; first Jun 21, 2021, last Aug 11, 2023.

    Permits recorded after the decision at 420 Courtland Ave
    IssuedTypeWorkStatusDeclared value
    Aug 11, 2023OtherREPAIR STEPS AND WALKWAY, REPAIR RETAINING WALLClosed$12,000
    Jun 21, 2021OtherREMOVE AND REPLACE FRONT SIDEWALKClosed$10,400
  • Matched by address: 420 Courtland Avenue

    420 Courtland Ave

    No permits recorded after Nov 19, 2020 through Nov 1, 2026.

Official source records

  1. Zoning Board of Appeals minutes, 2020-11-19

    Zoning Board of Appeals, Nov 19 2020

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