Park Ridge · Zoning variance
Council rejects garage size variance at 205 Belle Plaine Avenue
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On February 3, 2025 the final reading of an ordinance granting a zoning variance for a garage addition exceeding the maximum area for a detached garage at 205 Belle Plaine Avenue (VA-25-01) failed 0–5, so the variance was not granted. The minutes report that the Zoning Board of Appeals had voted to recommend denial after a public hearing.
Documented status: Recorded step (recorded), Feb 3 2025. Evidence dated . Later outcomes require a later source.
Official identifiers: VA-25-01
What changed, and when did it take effect?
· Other · Recorded in minutes
Final reading of the variance ordinance fails
Meeting date: Feb 3 2025. Case VA-25-01. Item VIII.N.1: the motion failed (0 to 5, 2 absent). Address: 205 Belle Plaine Avenue.
p. 4 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-02-03, City Council, Feb 3 2025. Open the quote and source.
p. 1 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-02-03, City Council, Feb 3 2025. Open the quote and source.
p. 5 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-02-03, City Council, Feb 3 2025. Open the quote and source.
What was requested, recommended, approved, contracted, reported paid and completed?
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Contracts, payments and completion
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Which parcels, agencies, businesses and projects are explicitly connected?
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What remains unresolved?
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Open questions
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What does the evidence suggest, and what would change it?
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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, Feb 3, 2025 (Final reading of the variance ordinance fails).
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: 205 Belle Plaine Avenue
205 Belle Plaine Ave1 permit recorded after Feb 3, 2025 through Nov 1, 2026: Other; $25,000 in declared value; dated Oct 17, 2025. Earlier permits on file: 1, the latest dated May 30, 2024 (Addition).
Permits recorded after the decision at 205 Belle Plaine Ave Issued Type Work Status Declared value Oct 17, 2025 Other NEW GARAGE Closed $25,000
Official source records
- City Council minutes, 2025-02-03
City Council, Feb 3 2025
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