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First-floor elevation variance at 813 S. Cumberland Avenue (VA-24-17)

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The City Council approved the final reading of an ordinance granting variances to expand a nonconforming house whose first-floor elevation exceeds the allowed maximum at 813 S. Cumberland Avenue (VA-24-17). Staff reported that the Zoning Board of Appeals held its public hearing on July 25, 2024 and voted 5–0 to recommend approval. The City Council's roll call vote on the final reading was 6–0.

Documented status: Approved (recorded), Aug 5 2024. Evidence dated . Later outcomes require a later source.

Official identifiers: VA-24-17

What changed, and when did it take effect?

  1. · Public hearing · Reported by staff

    Zoning Board of Appeals holds the public hearing

    Hearing date: Jul 25 2024.

    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve the Final Reading of an Ordinance granting Zoning Variances to allow the expansion of a nonconforming structure with a first-floor elevation height above the allowed maximum at 813 S. Cumberland Avenue (VA-24-17) (Memorandum), City Council, Aug 5 2024. Open the quote and source.

  2. · Committee recommendation · Reported by staff

    Zoning Board of Appeals recommends approval

    Hearing date: Jul 25 2024. Item ZBA: the motion carried (5 to 0).

    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve the Final Reading of an Ordinance granting Zoning Variances to allow the expansion of a nonconforming structure with a first-floor elevation height above the allowed maximum at 813 S. Cumberland Avenue (VA-24-17) (Memorandum), City Council, Aug 5 2024. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve the Final Reading of an Ordinance granting Zoning Variances to allow the expansion of a nonconforming structure with a first-floor elevation height above the allowed maximum at 813 S. Cumberland Avenue (VA-24-17) (Memorandum), City Council, Aug 5 2024. Open the quote and source.

  3. · Approved · Recorded in minutes

    City Council approves the ordinance

    Meeting date: Aug 5 2024. Item VIII.N.2: the motion carried (6 to 0, 1 absent). Case VA-24-17. Address: 813 S. Cumberland Avenue.

    • p. 1 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2024-08-05, City Council, Aug 5 2024. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 5 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2024-08-05, City Council, Aug 5 2024. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 5 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2024-08-05, City Council, Aug 5 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.

After the decision: permits at this address

Permits dated after Aug 5, 2024 (City Council approves the ordinance).

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: 813 S. Cumberland Avenue

    813 S Cumberland Ave

    1 permit recorded after Aug 5, 2024 through Nov 1, 2026: Addition; $300,000 in declared value; dated Mar 26, 2025. Earlier permits on file: 2, the latest dated Jun 2, 2020 (Sewer).

    Permits recorded after the decision at 813 S Cumberland Ave
    IssuedTypeWorkStatusDeclared value
    Mar 26, 2025AdditionADDITION TO SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENCEClosed$300,000

Official source records

  1. Approve the Final Reading of an Ordinance granting Zoning Variances to allow the expansion of a nonconforming structure with a first-floor elevation height above the allowed maximum at 813 S. Cumberland Avenue (VA-24-17) (Memorandum)

    City Council, Aug 5 2024

  2. City Council minutes, 2024-08-05

    City Council, Aug 5 2024

Editions and corrections

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  1. Edition 2(current)

    Edition 2: 3 revised.

  2. Edition 1Read this edition

    First edition.

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Suggested citation: GroundSignal, “First-floor elevation variance at 813 S. Cumberland Avenue (VA-24-17),” sources reviewed 2026-09-25, source records listed on this page.

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