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Council grants a floor area variance for a garage addition at 1633 Vine Avenue

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On May 4, 2026 the City Council approved the final reading of an ordinance granting variance VA-26-08 for an addition to an existing detached garage at 1633 Vine Avenue that exceeds the maximum floor area ratio. The motion carried.

Documented status: Approved (recorded), May 4 2026. Evidence dated . Later outcomes require a later source.

Official identifiers: VA-26-08

What changed, and when did it take effect?

  1. · Approved · Recorded in minutes

    City Council grants the variance

    Meeting date: May 4 2026. Case VA-26-08. Item VIII.O.1: the motion carried. Address: 1633 Vine Avenue.

    • p. 4 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2026-05-04, City Council, May 4 2026. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 5 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2026-05-04, City Council, May 4 2026. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2026-05-04, City Council, May 4 2026. 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 May 4, 2026 (City Council grants 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.

  • Matched by address: 1633 Vine Avenue

    1633 Vine Ave

    No permits recorded after May 4, 2026 through Nov 1, 2026.

Official source records

  1. City Council minutes, 2026-05-04

    City Council, May 4 2026

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Suggested citation: GroundSignal, “Council grants a floor area variance for a garage addition at 1633 Vine Avenue,” 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.