A proposal, an approval and a completed project are different events. These permanent timelines and published records connect the evidence and identify what remains unverified.
795 published records and 16 reviewed projects · Source review 2026-09-06. Selected coverage; this is not a complete list of municipal activity.
Krista Ward applied for zoning text amendments that would allow three-flat or three-unit buildings in the two-family residential district and would exempt such buildings from the covered-garage requirement. The Planning and Zoning Commission heard the request on March 8, 2022. The draft minutes record the motion to recommend the amendments as denied; that vote is not captured as a verified claim in this record. The source is draft minutes.
Ordinance · Planning and Zoning Commission
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Mar 8 2022 · Evidence
The City proposed zoning text amendments adding temporary medical testing sites as a temporary use. On February 8, 2022 the Planning and Zoning Commission sent the proposal back to staff with questions, without a vote. On March 8, 2022 it recommended the amendments with City Attorney language limiting such sites to permanent structures in two business districts during a declared public health emergency. The vote was 8–0. The sources are draft minutes. The Council's own action is not part of this record.
Ordinance · Planning and Zoning Commission
Committee recommendation (recorded), Feb 23 2022 · Evidence
After a public hearing on February 23, 2022, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended that the City Council approve a map amendment rezoning 10 Higgins Road, a vacant commercial building formerly used by a veterans club and zoned single-family residential when it was annexed, to the general commercial district. The applicants were Canfield Higgins, LLC and DJP Canfield Higgins, LLC. The vote was 9–0. The Council's own action is not part of this record.
Ordinance · Planning and Zoning Commission
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Dec 14 2021 · Evidence
After a public hearing, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted to approve, as its recommendation to the City Council, a special use allowing a tax services company to occupy the rear of a ground-floor tenant space at 110 South Prospect Avenue in the Uptown core. The vote was 7–0. The City Council's own action is not part of this record.
Special use · Planning and Zoning Commission
2021 · Planning and Zoning Commission19 on this page
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Nov 23 2021 · Evidence
After a public hearing, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted to approve, as its recommendation to the City Council, Park Ridge-Niles School District's special use application to add classrooms and auxiliary teaching spaces at Roosevelt Elementary, 1001 South Fairview Avenue, part of the district's plan for full-day kindergarten. The vote was 6–0. The City Council's own action is not part of this record.
Special use · Planning and Zoning Commission
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Nov 23 2021 · Evidence
After a public hearing, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted to approve, as its recommendation to the City Council, Park Ridge-Niles School District's special use application to add classrooms and auxiliary teaching spaces at Washington Elementary, 1500 Stewart Avenue, part of the district's plan for full-day kindergarten. The vote was 6–0. The City Council's own action is not part of this record.
Special use · Planning and Zoning Commission
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Nov 23 2021 · Evidence
After a public hearing, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted to approve, as its recommendation to the City Council, Park Ridge-Niles School District's special use application to add classrooms and auxiliary teaching spaces at Franklin Elementary, 2401 Manor Lane, part of the district's plan for full-day kindergarten. The vote was 6–0. The City Council's own action is not part of this record.
Special use · Planning and Zoning Commission
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Nov 23 2021 · Evidence
After a public hearing, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted to approve, as its recommendation to the City Council, Park Ridge-Niles School District's special use application to add classrooms and auxiliary teaching spaces at Carpenter Elementary, 300 North Hamlin Avenue, part of the district's plan for full-day kindergarten. The vote was 6–0. The City Council's own action is not part of this record.
Special use · Planning and Zoning Commission
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Nov 23 2021 · Evidence
After a public hearing, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted to approve, as its recommendation to the City Council, Park Ridge-Niles School District's special use application to add classrooms and auxiliary teaching spaces at Field Elementary, 707 Wisner Street, subject to the applicant obtaining a parking variance from the Zoning Board of Appeals, part of the district's plan for full-day kindergarten. The vote was 6–0. The City Council's own action is not part of this record.
Special use · Planning and Zoning Commission
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Nov 9 2021 · Evidence
After a public hearing on November 9, 2021, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted on a motion to recommend that the City Council approve a special use for a real estate brokerage office on the ground floor at 2 N Northwest Highway. A staff memorandum to the Council reports that the Commission failed to reach affirmative findings and declined to recommend approval; the draft minutes' roll call lists three ayes and four nays, although the sentence after it says the motion was approved. The City Council's own action is not part of this record.
Special use · Planning and Zoning Commission
Approved (recorded in draft minutes), Nov 9 2021 · Evidence
The Planning and Zoning Commission approved the Park Ridge Park District's site plan to replace two tennis courts and one basketball court at Jaycee Park, 1515 S Washington Ave. The vote was 7–0.
Public record · Planning and Zoning Commission
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Oct 26 2021 · Evidence
The Planning and Zoning Commission held a public hearing on City-initiated text amendments to the density and use rules for independent living facilities in the retail and office district. On August 24, 2021 it voted carried to continue the hearing, and on October 26, 2021 it voted to recommend amendments as modified by the Commission, including renaming the use age-restricted senior housing, setting a lot-area-per-unit density, raising the minimum age, and adding guest parking. The vote was 7–0. The City Council's own action is not part of this record.
Ordinance · Planning and Zoning Commission
Approved (recorded in draft minutes), Jul 27 2021 · Evidence
The Planning and Zoning Commission approved a site plan for an interior remodel and exterior accessibility modifications to the Jewel-Osco grocery store at 481 Busse Highway. The vote was 8–0.
The Planning and Zoning Commission approved the Park Ridge Park District's site plan for three temporary light poles for soccer practice at 100 S. Western for the autumn seasons of this year and next, ending October 31, 2022, subject to compliance with the Zoning Ordinance's lighting section. The vote was 8–0.
Public record · Planning and Zoning Commission
Approved (recorded in draft minutes), Jun 22 2021 · Evidence
The Planning and Zoning Commission approved a site plan to reconstruct the Park Ridge Public Library parking lot at 20 S. Summit, a City-owned lot, with permeable pavers and rain gardens, on condition that the final landscaping plan be subject to staff review and not increase any landscaping non-conformity. The vote was 5–0.
Public record · Planning and Zoning Commission
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Jun 8 2021 · Evidence
After a public hearing, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended that the City Council approve a special use allowing a law office and mortgage brokerage office on the ground floor along Northwest Highway at 127 N Northwest Highway. The vote was 8–0. The City Council's own action is not part of this record.
Special use · Planning and Zoning Commission
Public hearing (recorded in draft minutes), May 11 2021 · Evidence
The draft minutes of the continued hearing record a roll call on a motion to recommend approval with conditions, but their outcome wording is not consistent, so the result is not stated here; the applicant later withdrew the application. The City Council's own action is not part of this record.
Special use · Planning and Zoning Commission
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), May 11 2021 · Evidence
After a public hearing, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended that the City Council approve special uses allowing a physical therapy and chiropractic clinic and a medical spa, a personal services establishment, on the ground floor at 36 Main Street in the Uptown core. The vote was 7–0. The City Council's own action is not part of this record.
The owners of 400-410 Higgins Rd sought site plan review to use the building there as a child day care center with an outdoor play area. The Planning and Zoning Commission approved the site plan review on August 25, 2020 by a vote of 8–0, with conditions that include removing the nonconforming monument sign. On November 10, 2020 it approved a major amendment to the approved site plan by a vote of 7–0, adding a condition that signs restricting turns from Vine Avenue into the alley be posted.
Public record · Planning and Zoning Commission
Approved (recorded in draft minutes), Nov 24 2020 · Evidence
Karim Inc., operating a Dunkin' Donuts, sought site plan review for a single-lane drive-through at 742 Higgins Road. On November 24, 2020 the Planning and Zoning Commission approved the site plan review by a vote of 8–0, with conditions that include monument and directional signs to guide drive-through traffic. A later staff annual report lists the case as approved by the commission on November 24, 2020.
Public record · Planning and Zoning Commission
Approved (recorded in draft minutes), Oct 27 2020 · Evidence
The Park Ridge Park District sought site plan review for various modifications to Woodland Park at 1200 North Western Avenue. On October 27, 2020 the Planning and Zoning Commission approved the site plan review by a vote of 8–0, with conditions on lighting and on other City departments' requirements. A later staff annual report lists the case as approved by the commission on October 27, 2020.
Public record · Planning and Zoning Commission
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Nov 24 2020 · Evidence
Options Medical Weight Loss sought a special use to operate a medical/dental clinic in a tenant space at 118 Euclid Avenue. On November 24, 2020 the Planning and Zoning Commission voted 8–0 on a motion recommending that the City Council approve the special use. The City Council's own action is not part of this record.
Special use · Planning and Zoning Commission
Committee recommendation (recorded), Jan 12 2021 · Evidence
After a public hearing on January 12, 2021, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted to recommend that the City Council approve City-initiated zoning text amendments creating the adult-use cannabis dispensing organization as a special use in the office and business districts, with spatial restrictions, application requirements and an off-street parking minimum, while prohibiting non-dispensing cannabis business establishments. The minutes record that the motion carried on a roll call vote. The City Council's own action is not part of this record.
Ordinance · Planning and Zoning Commission
2020 · Planning and Zoning Commission5 on this page
Committee recommendation (recorded), Nov 10 2020 · Evidence
The owner of a spa business applied for a special use to move it into a ground-floor space at 7 South Fairview, where personal services establishments on the ground floor require special use approval. On November 10, 2020 the Planning and Zoning Commission voted 7–0 on a motion recommending that the City Council approve the special use. The City Council's own action is not part of this record.
Special use · Planning and Zoning Commission
Committee recommendation (reported in a later record), Feb 25 2020 · Evidence
The applicant and property owner's application for a special use allowing dwelling units above the ground floor at 400-410 Higgins came before the Planning and Zoning Commission on January 22, 2020, and the commission voted 7–0 to continue the hearing. Minutes of a later meeting report that the commission recommended approval of the proposed mixed-use special use on February 25, 2020; the vote at that meeting is not available as text. The application's later course is not part of this record.
Special use · Planning and Zoning Commission
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Dec 10 2019 · Evidence
The Planning and Zoning Commission voted by roll call to recommend approval with conditions: parking relief must be obtained through the variance process, and day care staff are to be present near Grant Place during peak pick-up and drop-off hours. The motion carried. This record does not state the vote tally. The vote is a recommendation; City Council action is not part of this record.
Special use · Planning and Zoning Commission
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Dec 10 2019 · Evidence
The Planning and Zoning Commission voted by roll call to recommend approval with conditions, including one added accessible parking space, and the motion carried. This record does not state the vote tally. The vote is a recommendation; City Council action is not part of this record.
Special use · Planning and Zoning Commission
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Dec 10 2019 · Evidence
The Planning and Zoning Commission voted by roll call to recommend approval with conditions, including restriping for accessible parking at the next scheduled restriping project, and the motion carried. This record does not state the vote tally. The vote is a recommendation; City Council action is not part of this record.
Special use · Planning and Zoning Commission
2019 · Planning and Zoning Commission10 on this page
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Nov 26 2019 · Evidence
The Planning and Zoning Commission voted by roll call to recommend approval with conditions, including an added accessible parking space in the north lot and a waiver of landscaping and transition yard requirements, and the motion carried. This record does not state the vote tally. The vote is a recommendation; City Council action is not part of this record.
Special use · Planning and Zoning Commission
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Nov 14 2019 · Evidence
After the City Council opted out of permitting cannabis business establishments, text amendments were proposed to define them in the Zoning Ordinance and prohibit them in all zoning districts. The Planning and Zoning Commission voted to recommend approval, adding language that covers businesses allowing cannabis consumption on premises; the motion carried 9–0. The vote is a recommendation; City Council action is not part of this record.
Ordinance · Planning and Zoning Commission
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Nov 14 2019 · Evidence
The Planning and Zoning Commission voted to recommend approval to the City Council, and the motion carried 9–0. The vote is a recommendation; City Council action is not part of this record.
Special use · Planning and Zoning Commission
Committee recommendation (reported in a later record), Sep 10 2019 · Evidence
Text amendments were proposed to allow electronic message board signs, such as real-time bus arrival signs, for the Regional Transportation Authority. On August 27, 2019 the Planning and Zoning Commission opened the hearing and voted by voice vote to continue discussion to its next meeting. A later staff memo to the City Council reports that at the continued hearing on September 10, 2019 the commission voted to recommend approval; those minutes are not extractable here. The vote is a recommendation; City Council action is not part of this record.
Ordinance · Planning and Zoning Commission
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Aug 27 2019 · Evidence
The Planning and Zoning Commission voted by roll call to recommend approval with conditions, including shade trees near the north lot line and a waiver of the transition yard and foundation landscaping, and the motion carried. This record does not state the vote tally. The vote is a recommendation; City Council action is not part of this record.
Two applicants, as contract purchasers, sought a special use for a ground-floor professional office, a coworking space, at 11 N. Northwest Highway in the Uptown Commercial sub-district. After a public hearing, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted to recommend approval to the City Council subject to its findings of fact; the motion carried 8–0. The vote is a recommendation; City Council action is not part of this record.
Special use · Planning and Zoning Commission
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Jun 11 2019 · Evidence
A special use was requested to allow a personal service use, a salon, on the ground floor at 25 South Prospect Avenue in the Uptown Core sub-district, where the Uptown Plan favors retail, restaurant and entertainment uses on ground floors. The Planning and Zoning Commission held the public hearing on June 11, 2019. A later staff memo to the City Council reports that the motion to recommend approval failed, so the commission's recommendation was not to approve. The roll-call count in the draft minutes is not restated here.
Special use · Planning and Zoning Commission
Committee recommendation (recorded), May 14 2019 · Evidence
After discussion of traffic at the Greenwood Avenue entrance, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted to approve the site plan review subject to a new traffic study and the original conditions. The motion carried 8–0. The vote is a recommendation; City Council action is not part of this record.
The Planning and Zoning Commission took up text amendments to the Zoning Ordinance on solar panel requirements and definitions. On April 9, 2019 it voted to table the case pending staff answers on panel height, free-standing panel size and glare, and the motion carried. On April 23, 2019 it voted to approve the amendments with changes, including a lower height limit for panels on flat roofs and a size limit for free-standing panels; that motion also carried. This record does not state the vote tally. The vote is a recommendation; City Council action is not part of this record.
Ordinance · Planning and Zoning Commission
Committee recommendation (recorded), Jan 8 2019 · Evidence
The Planning and Zoning Commission held a public hearing on text amendments to the Zoning Ordinance's rules for nonconforming structures, intended to let owners of homes that are nonconforming as to bulk enlarge them without variances, and voted to approve the amendments as submitted, subject to its findings of fact. The motion carried 8–0. The vote is a recommendation; City Council action is not part of this record.
Ordinance · Planning and Zoning Commission
2018 · Planning and Zoning Commission11 on this page
Approved (recorded in draft minutes), Nov 13 2018 · Evidence
After the property at 1036 Higgins Road (parcel 12-02-300-118-0000) was rezoned to allow a drive-through, its owner sought site plan approval for a new commercial building. On November 13, 2018, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted 7–0 to approve the site plan, subject to the conditions listed in the staff report.
Public record · Planning and Zoning Commission
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Nov 13 2018 · Evidence
The applicant asked to rezone 400-410 Higgins Road, a vacant former office building and vacant lots (parcels including 12-02-409-012-0000, 12-02-409-013-0000, 12-02-409-014-0000 and 12-02-409-019-0000), from the general commercial district to the retail and office district, in order to pursue a mixed-use building with ground-floor commercial space and residences above; that project would need a separate special use hearing. After a public hearing on November 13, 2018, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted 7–0 to recommend approval with amended findings of fact.
Ordinance · Planning and Zoning Commission
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Aug 14 2018 · Evidence
The owner of 1036 Higgins Road (parcel 12-02-300-118-0000), a restaurant site with a nonconforming drive-through, asked to rezone it from the retail and office district to the general commercial district ahead of a multi-tenant commercial project with a drive-through. After a public hearing on August 14, 2018, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted 8–0 to recommend approval with the findings of fact as submitted. Site plan review was still required.
Ordinance · Planning and Zoning Commission
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Jun 12 2018 · Evidence
The City of Park Ridge proposed zoning text amendments to its parking requirements: applying the small-use parking exemption to all commercial uses in any commercial district, exempting permitted and special uses in the Uptown business district, and removing the fee-in-lieu provision. After a public hearing on June 12, 2018, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted 6–0 in favor of the amendments as submitted, for the City Council's consideration.
Ordinance · Planning and Zoning Commission
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Jun 12 2018 · Evidence
The City of Park Ridge proposed zoning text amendments so that personal service uses could include cosmetic tattooing, with new definitions for body art and tattoo establishments. After a public hearing on June 12, 2018, the Planning and Zoning Commission broadened the proposal to include body art tattooing as well and voted 6–0 in favor of the amended text and findings of fact, for the City Council's consideration.
Ordinance · Planning and Zoning Commission
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), May 22 2018 · Evidence
The owner of 425 Talcott Road (parcels 12-02-208-006-0000 and 12-02-208-007-0000), occupied by a plumbing business, asked to rezone the site from the retail and office district to the multi-family residential district. After a public hearing on May 22, 2018, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval with findings of fact; the staff memo to the City Council reported the vote as 7–0.
Ordinance · Planning and Zoning Commission
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), May 22 2018 · Evidence
Two applicants sought a special use to open a dog grooming business, a personal service use, in a ground-floor tenant space at 143 Vine Avenue in the Uptown core sub-district. After a public hearing on May 22, 2018, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval; the staff memo to the City Council reported the vote as 7–0.
Pusheen Corporation applied for a special use to allow a ground-floor professional office at 104 Main Street in the Uptown core sub-district. After a public hearing on April 24, 2018, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted 7–0 to recommend approval, including the findings of fact as amended.
After a City Council referral, the Planning and Zoning Commission held a public hearing on April 24, 2018 on a zoning text amendment that would restrict infill activity in and around Murphy Lake. A motion to recommend approval failed 1–6, so the Commission did not recommend the amendment. The staff memo to the City Council reported the same result (1–6).
Ordinance · Planning and Zoning Commission
Public hearing (recorded in draft minutes), Feb 27 2018 · Evidence
Park Ridge Ventures, LLC applied for a special use to allow a Pearle Vision optical store, a personal service use, on the ground floor of the Pickwick Theater building at 1 South Prospect Avenue. The Planning and Zoning Commission held a public hearing on February 27, 2018 and voted on a motion to recommend approval. The roll call in the draft minutes and the result line printed below it do not agree, so this record does not state the outcome.
Special use · Planning and Zoning Commission
Approved (recorded in draft minutes), Jan 9 2018 · Evidence
GW Properties, LLC sought site plan approval for a new multi-tenant commercial building on the former bank site at 123 North Northwest Highway in the Uptown commercial sub-district. On January 9, 2018, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted 6–0 to approve the site plan, subject to the conditions listed in the staff report.
