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School foundation landscaping and parking island variances at 707 Wisner Street

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Case VA-25-09 requested major variances at 707 Wisner Street to allow less than the minimum foundation landscaping width and fewer parking lot islands than required. The Zoning Board of Appeals voted 7–0 to recommend that the City Council approve both variances. The City Council's action is not covered by this record.

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

Official identifiers: VA-25-09

What changed, and when did it take effect?

  1. · Committee recommendation · Recorded in minutes

    Board recommends approval to the City Council

    Hearing date: Mar 20 2025. Item IV.B: 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. 5 · Approved minutes of Zoning Board of Appeals minutes, 2025-03-20, Zoning Board of Appeals, Mar 20 2025. Open the quote and source.
  2. · Public hearing · Recorded in minutes

    Zoning Board of Appeals holds the public hearing

    Hearing date: Mar 20 2025. Case VA-25-09. Address: 707 Wisner Street. Applicant: PARK RIDGE-NILES SCHOOL DISTRICT 64.

    • 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. 1 · Staff memo of PUBLIC HEARING REVIEW AND ACTION: Variances at 707 Wisner Street - VA-25-09 (Majors) (Staff Memorandum), 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?

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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, Mar 20, 2025 (Board recommends approval to the City Council).

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 St

    2 permits recorded after Mar 20, 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
    IssuedTypeWorkStatusDeclared value
    Feb 25, 2026OtherPASSENGER ELEVATOR REPLACE THE POWER UNITClosed$61,115
    Dec 23, 2025OtherADDING DEVICES TO EXISTING SYSTEM FIRE ALARMClosed$61,000

Official source records

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

    Zoning Board of Appeals, Mar 20 2025

  2. PUBLIC HEARING REVIEW AND ACTION: Variances at 707 Wisner Street - VA-25-09 (Majors) (Staff Memorandum)

    Zoning Board of Appeals, Mar 20 2025

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