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Rear-yard setback variance for an elevated pool deck at 1621 Walnut Street

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On June 2, 2025 the City Council voted 5–1 to approve the final reading of an ordinance granting a major variance (VA-25-13) allowing an elevated deck around an above-ground pool at 1621 Walnut Street (09-22-422-012-0000) to sit closer to the rear lot line than the required setback. The Zoning Board of Appeals held the hearing on May 22, 2025 and recommended approval unanimously. The ordinance requires the deck to be built substantially as shown in the application plans.

Documented status: Approved (recorded), Jun 2 2025. Evidence dated . Later outcomes require a later source.

Official identifiers: VA-25-13

What changed, and when did it take effect?

  1. · Public hearing · Scheduled on an agenda

    Zoning Board of Appeals hearing

    Hearing date: May 22 2025.

    • p. 2 · Staff memo of Approve the Final Reading of an Ordinance granting a Zoning Variance to Permit an Elevated Deck Surrounding a Pool to be less than the Required Setback from any Lot Line in the Rear Yard at 1621 Walnut Street (VA-25-13) (Memorandum), City Council, Jun 2 2025. Open the quote and source.

  2. · Approved · Recorded in minutes

    City Council approves the variance

    Meeting date: Jun 2 2025. Case VA-25-13. Item VIII.N.2: the motion carried (5 to 1, 1 absent). Address: 1621 Walnut Street.

    • p. 7 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-06-02, City Council, Jun 2 2025. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 8 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-06-02, City Council, Jun 2 2025. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-06-02, City Council, Jun 2 2025. Open the quote and source.

What was requested, recommended, approved, contracted, reported paid and completed?

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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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Properties named in the records

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 Jun 2, 2025 (City Council approves the 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.

  • Listed in a draft exhibit

    1621 Walnut St

    No permits recorded after Jun 2, 2025 through Nov 1, 2026. Earlier permits on file: 4, the latest dated Oct 30, 2024 (Other).

Official source records

  1. Approve the Final Reading of an Ordinance granting a Zoning Variance to Permit an Elevated Deck Surrounding a Pool to be less than the Required Setback from any Lot Line in the Rear Yard at 1621 Walnut Street (VA-25-13) (Memorandum)

    City Council, Jun 2 2025

  2. City Council minutes, 2025-06-02

    City Council, Jun 2 2025

Editions and corrections

Each published change is a new edition. Corrections say what changed and why.

  1. Edition 3(current)

    Edition 3: 3 revised.

  2. Edition 2Read this edition

    Edition 2: 3 revised.

  3. Edition 1Read this edition

    First edition.

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Suggested citation: GroundSignal, “Rear-yard setback variance for an elevated pool deck at 1621 Walnut Street,” sources reviewed 2026-09-27, 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.