Park Ridge · Zoning variance
Replacement garage location variances at 434 Meacham Avenue
AI-assisted researchHow this was researched and checkedThe owners sought major variances (VA-24-31) to build a new detached garage at 434 Meacham Avenue in the same nonconforming location as the existing garage, in order to preserve a mature tree. The Zoning Board of Appeals recommended approval (434 Meacham Avenue); the motion carried with no nays recorded. Any later City Council action is not part of this record.
Documented status: Committee recommendation (recorded), Oct 24 2024. Evidence dated . Later outcomes require a later source.
Official identifiers: VA-24-31
What changed, and when did it take effect?
· Committee recommendation · Recorded in minutes
Zoning Board of Appeals recommends approval of the major variances
Hearing date: Oct 24 2024. Item IV.2: the motion carried. Address: 434 Meacham Avenue. Address: 434 Meacham Avenue.
p. 1 · Approved minutes of Zoning Board of Appeals minutes, 2024-10-24, Zoning Board of Appeals, Oct 24 2024. Open the quote and source.
p. 4 · Approved minutes of Zoning Board of Appeals minutes, 2024-10-24, Zoning Board of Appeals, Oct 24 2024. Open the quote and source.
p. 2 · Approved minutes of Zoning Board of Appeals minutes, 2024-10-24, Zoning Board of Appeals, Oct 24 2024. Open the quote and source.
p. 3 · Approved minutes of Zoning Board of Appeals minutes, 2024-10-24, Zoning Board of Appeals, Oct 24 2024. 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?
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, Oct 24, 2024 (Zoning Board of Appeals recommends approval of the major variances).
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: 434 Meacham Avenue
434 Meacham Ave2 permits recorded after Oct 24, 2024 through Nov 1, 2026: Other; $106,310 in declared value; first Oct 7, 2025, last Oct 13, 2025.
Permits recorded after the decision at 434 Meacham Ave Issued Type Work Status Declared value Oct 13, 2025 Other INSTALL CEDAR PRIVACY FENCE AND CEDAR PICKET Closed $20,221 Oct 7, 2025 Other PERMEABLE PATIO, PAVER WALKWAY, PICKET FENCE Closed $86,089
Official source records
- Zoning Board of Appeals minutes, 2024-10-24
Zoning Board of Appeals, Oct 24 2024
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