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Detached garage height variance at 519 Cedar Street

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Case VA-25-06 requested a minor variance for a new detached garage at 519 Cedar Street that would exceed the maximum height for a detached garage. At the applicant's request the Zoning Board of Appeals continued the case (vote 4–0) to March 20, 2025. At that meeting the board voted 7–0 to approve the minor variance; for a minor variance the board's approval is the final decision.

Documented status: Public hearing (recorded), Mar 20 2025. Evidence dated . Later outcomes require a later source.

Official identifiers: VA-25-06

What changed, and when did it take effect?

  1. · Other · Recorded in minutes

    Board continues the case at the applicant's request

    Hearing date: Feb 27 2025. Motion to continue (item IV.B). Item IV.B: the motion carried (4 to 0). Other date: Mar 20 2025.

    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of Zoning Board of Appeals minutes, 2025-02-27, Zoning Board of Appeals, Feb 27 2025. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of Zoning Board of Appeals minutes, 2025-02-27, Zoning Board of Appeals, Feb 27 2025. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of Zoning Board of Appeals minutes, 2025-02-27, Zoning Board of Appeals, Feb 27 2025. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Approved minutes of Zoning Board of Appeals minutes, 2025-02-27, Zoning Board of Appeals, Feb 27 2025. Open the quote and source.
  2. · Approved · Recorded in minutes

    Board approves the minor variance

    Hearing date: Mar 20 2025. Motion to approve (item IV.A). Item IV.A: the motion carried (7 to 0).

    • p. 1 · Approved minutes of Zoning Board of Appeals minutes, 2025-03-20, Zoning Board of Appeals, Mar 20 2025. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of Zoning Board of Appeals minutes, 2025-03-20, Zoning Board of Appeals, Mar 20 2025. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of Zoning Board of Appeals minutes, 2025-03-20, Zoning Board of Appeals, Mar 20 2025. Open the quote and source.
  3. · Public hearing · Recorded in minutes

    Zoning Board of Appeals holds the public hearing

    Hearing date: Mar 20 2025. Case VA-25-06. Address: 519 Cedar Street. Applicant: PAUL GIDASZEWSKI.

    • p. 1 · Staff memo of CONTINUED: PUBLIC HEARING REVIEW AND ACTION: Variance at 519 Cedar Street - VA-25-06 (Minor) (Staff Memorandum), Zoning Board of Appeals, Mar 20 2025. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Approved minutes of Zoning Board of Appeals minutes, 2025-03-20, Zoning Board of Appeals, Mar 20 2025. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Approved minutes of Zoning Board of Appeals minutes, 2025-03-20, Zoning Board of Appeals, Mar 20 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.

After the decision: permits at this address

Permits dated after Mar 20, 2025 (Board approves the minor 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: 519 Cedar Street

    519 Cedar St

    1 permit recorded after Mar 20, 2025 through Nov 1, 2026: Other; $4,200 in declared value; dated Sep 4, 2025.

    Permits recorded after the decision at 519 Cedar St
    IssuedTypeWorkStatusDeclared value
    Sep 4, 2025OtherFENCEClosed$4,200

Official source records

  1. Zoning Board of Appeals minutes, 2025-02-27

    Zoning Board of Appeals, Feb 27 2025

  2. Zoning Board of Appeals minutes, 2025-03-20

    Zoning Board of Appeals, Mar 20 2025

  3. CONTINUED: PUBLIC HEARING REVIEW AND ACTION: Variance at 519 Cedar Street - VA-25-06 (Minor) (Staff Memorandum)

    Zoning Board of Appeals, Mar 20 2025

Editions and corrections

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  1. Edition 2(current)

    Edition 2: 3 revised.

  2. Edition 1(shown on this page)

    First edition.

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Suggested citation: GroundSignal, “Detached garage height variance at 519 Cedar Street,” sources reviewed 2026-09-24, 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.