Park Ridge · Zoning variance
School addition parking and height variances at 707 Wisner Street (first filing)
AI-assisted researchHow this was researched and checkedPark Ridge-Niles School District sought parking, building height and floor area variances for a classroom addition at 707 Wisner Street under case VA-25-02. After the public hearing the Zoning Board of Appeals voted 7–0 to continue the case to February 27, 2025. Staff later reported that additional variances were identified, so the same request was re-noticed under a new case number.
Documented status: Public hearing (recorded), Jan 23 2025. Evidence dated . Later outcomes require a later source.
Official identifiers: VA-25-02
What changed, and when did it take effect?
· Other · Recorded in minutes
Board continues the case
Hearing date: Jan 23 2025. Motion to continue (item IV.B). Item IV.B: the motion carried (7 to 0). Other date: Feb 27 2025.
p. 5 · Approved minutes of Zoning Board of Appeals minutes, 2025-01-23, Zoning Board of Appeals, Jan 23 2025. Open the quote and source.
p. 5 · Approved minutes of Zoning Board of Appeals minutes, 2025-01-23, Zoning Board of Appeals, Jan 23 2025. Open the quote and source.
p. 1 · Approved minutes of Zoning Board of Appeals minutes, 2025-01-23, Zoning Board of Appeals, Jan 23 2025. Open the quote and source.
p. 5 · Approved minutes of Zoning Board of Appeals minutes, 2025-01-23, Zoning Board of Appeals, Jan 23 2025. Open the quote and source.
· Public hearing · Recorded in minutes
Zoning Board of Appeals holds the public hearing
Hearing date: Jan 23 2025. Case VA-25-02. Address: 707 Wisner Street. Applicant: PARK RIDGE-NILES SCHOOL DISTRICT 64.
p. 1 · Staff memo of PUBLIC HEARING REVIEW AND ACTION: Variances at 707 Wisner Street - VA-25-02 (Major/Minor) (Staff Memorandum), Zoning Board of Appeals, Jan 23 2025. Open the quote and source.
p. 1 · Approved minutes of Zoning Board of Appeals minutes, 2025-01-23, Zoning Board of Appeals, Jan 23 2025. Open the quote and source.
p. 2 · Approved minutes of Zoning Board of Appeals minutes, 2025-01-23, Zoning Board of Appeals, Jan 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.
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, Jan 23, 2025 (Board continues the case).
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: 707 Wisner Street
707 Wisner St2 permits recorded after Jan 23, 2025 through Nov 1, 2026: Other; $122,115 in declared value; first Dec 23, 2025, last Feb 25, 2026. Earlier permits on file: 1, the latest dated May 13, 2020 (Other).
Permits recorded after the decision at 707 Wisner St Issued Type Work Status Declared value Feb 25, 2026 Other PASSENGER ELEVATOR REPLACE THE POWER UNIT Closed $61,115 Dec 23, 2025 Other ADDING DEVICES TO EXISTING SYSTEM FIRE ALARM Closed $61,000
Official source records
- Zoning Board of Appeals minutes, 2025-01-23
Zoning Board of Appeals, Jan 23 2025
- PUBLIC HEARING REVIEW AND ACTION: Variances at 707 Wisner Street - VA-25-02 (Major/Minor) (Staff Memorandum)
Zoning Board of Appeals, Jan 23 2025
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