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The Zoning Board of Appeals recommended that the City Council approve a major variance allowing a replacement detached garage at 907 S. Fairview to be built without access from the abutting public alley, keeping access from the existing driveway. The roll call was 5–0. These are draft minutes.
Zoning variance · Zoning Board of Appeals · Park Ridge
Committee recommendation (recorded), Jun 25 2020 · Evidence
The Zoning Board of Appeals recommended that the City Council approve a major variance allowing a second-story and attic addition to follow the existing walls of a house at 221 N. Delphia that encroaches into the required side yards on a substandard lot. The roll call was 7–0. The final City Council action is not part of this record.
Zoning variance · Zoning Board of Appeals · Park Ridge
Committee recommendation (recorded), May 28 2020 · Evidence
The owner at 11 N. Grace asked for a major variance to add a second story above an existing house that encroaches into a required side yard. The Zoning Board of Appeals continued the case on March 19, 2020 as part of the City's early pandemic meeting reductions; that vote was 5–0. At a virtual meeting the board recommended that the City Council approve the variance; the roll call was 7–0.
Zoning variance · Zoning Board of Appeals · Park Ridge
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Feb 27 2020 · Evidence
The Zoning Board of Appeals recommended that the City Council approve a major variance allowing a personal services business at 616 Devon Avenue to expand and operate without the required off-street parking. The roll call was 6–0. These are draft minutes.
Zoning variance · Zoning Board of Appeals · Park Ridge
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Feb 27 2020 · Evidence
The Zoning Board of Appeals recommended that the City Council approve a major variance allowing a personal services business at 604, 606, 610 and 614 Devon Avenue, a building with no off-street parking, to expand and operate without the required parking. Nearby residents raised concerns about street parking. The roll call was 6–0. These are draft minutes.
Zoning variance · Zoning Board of Appeals · Park Ridge
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Jan 23 2020 · Evidence
The Zoning Board of Appeals recommended that the City Council approve a major variance allowing a deteriorating, nonconforming ground monument sign at 22 S. Washington Avenue, a medical and dental clinic in the Uptown Commercial sub-district, to be replaced. The vote was 6–0. These are draft minutes.
Zoning variance · Zoning Board of Appeals · Park Ridge
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Jan 23 2020 · Evidence
The Zoning Board of Appeals recommended that the City Council approve a major variance from the off-street parking requirements so that a day care center at 418 Touhy Avenue could share the parking lot at 410 Grant Place owned by First United Methodist Church. The vote was 6–0. These are draft minutes.
Zoning variance · Zoning Board of Appeals · Park Ridge
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Nov 21 2019 · Evidence
The Zoning Board of Appeals recommended that the City Council approve a major variance allowing a new detached garage at 1115 South Hamlin Avenue to be built without access from the abutting public alley. The roll call was 5–1. These are draft minutes; the final City Council action is not part of this record.
Zoning variance · Zoning Board of Appeals · Park Ridge
At its meeting on December 16, 2019, the City Council approved the property tax levy for the City and the Library at final reading, and the motion carried 5–1. The staff scorecard for that final reading puts the levy at $17,559,850, and the ordinance levied $4,008,000 as the Library tax.
At its meeting on December 17, 2018, the City Council approved the property tax levy for the City and the Library as part of its consent agenda, whose motion carried 6–0. The staff scorecard for that final reading puts the levy at $16,481,003 and lists the Library Board's resolution as a reduction of $1,957,524. The next year's scorecard restates this levy at $16,498,859, listing its net debt service at $257,754 rather than $240,202.
Ordinance · City Council · Park Ridge
Recorded step (recorded in draft minutes), May 23 2019 · Evidence
The property owner at 510 N. Greenwood Avenue asked for a major variance to place a ground monument sign with no setback, partly in the public right-of-way. After a hearing the Zoning Board of Appeals continued the case to the next meeting by a vote of 6–0. At that meeting the City Planner reported that the applicant had withdrawn the request and planned a sign that conforms to the Zoning Ordinance.
Because that year's street resurfacing contract came to $1,135,088, above the budget of $1,100,000, staff requested a Motor Fuel Tax Fund budget amendment of $35,088. Staff reported that the Committee of the Whole approved it on July 8, 2019, and the City Council approved it on its consent agenda on July 15, 2019 (6–0).
On May 20, 2019 the City Council approved, on its consent agenda (7–0), the street resurfacing program contract with Builders Paving LLC. Staff reported $1,135,088 as the lowest bid, against a budget of $1,100,000. Later minutes report the contract at $1,135,088 and a budget amendment of $35,088 to cover the difference.
A second-floor business tenant at 18 S. Northwest Highway applied for variances for a projecting sign and a wall sign. At the applicant's request the Zoning Board of Appeals voted only on the projecting sign and recommended that the City Council approve a major variance for it. The minutes record that the motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote. The final City Council action is not part of this record.
On April 3, 2019 the City Council approved, on its consent agenda, closing a debt service fund after the final payment on its bonds, moving $26,700 of remaining balances into the Uptown TIF Fund. The staff memo calls the closure a non-cash accounting transaction. The consent vote was 7–0.
On January 22, 2019 the City Council approved the engineering design contract for the Marvin Parkway Flood Control Project with Christopher B. Burke Engineering LLC for $101,979, by a 5–0 vote, as staff had recommended.
Contract award · City Council · Park Ridge
Recorded step (reported in a later record), Jan 1 2019 · Evidence
The City Council approved an ordinance rewriting the Municipal Code section on water and sewer rates and fees as part of its consent agenda on November 7, 2018; the consent agenda carried by roll call 7–0. The staff memo listed the water rate rising from $7.97 to $8.11 and the sewer rate from $1.42 to $1.51 per thousand gallons, with higher fixed charges, starting January 1, 2019. The ordinance also added a $50 service fee on the return of construction water meter deposits. The Municipal Code's later history lists it as Ordinance No. 2018-40.
Ordinance · City Council · Park Ridge
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 · Park Ridge
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 · Park Ridge
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 · Park Ridge
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 · Park Ridge
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.
Special use · Planning and Zoning Commission · Park Ridge
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 · Park Ridge
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 · Park Ridge
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.
Public record · Planning and Zoning Commission · Park Ridge
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 · Park Ridge
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 · Park Ridge
2019 · Zoning Board of Appeals10 on this page
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Oct 24 2019 · Evidence
The Zoning Board of Appeals recommended that the City Council approve a major variance allowing a replacement air conditioning unit to be placed in the required interior side yard at 1317 Grove Avenue. The roll call was 5–2. These are draft minutes; the final City Council action is not part of this record.
Zoning variance · Zoning Board of Appeals · Park Ridge
The owner of a reverse corner lot at 518 S. Rose Avenue asked for a major variance to build a six-foot solid fence where the Zoning Ordinance allows only a four-foot open fence. At the applicant's written request the Zoning Board of Appeals continued the hearing on August 29, 2019. At the continued hearing the board recommended that the City Council approve the variance; the roll call was 6–1. These are draft minutes; the final City Council action is not part of this record.
Zoning variance · Zoning Board of Appeals · Park Ridge
The Zoning Board of Appeals recommended that the City Council approve a major variance allowing the enlargement of a nonconforming front porch at 324 Courtland Avenue. The vote was 7–0. These are draft minutes; the final City Council action is not part of this record.
Zoning variance · Zoning Board of Appeals · Park Ridge
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), May 23 2019 · Evidence
The Zoning Board of Appeals recommended that the City Council approve major variances allowing an office use and a restaurant use at 801 Devon Avenue to operate with less than the required off-street parking. The roll call was 6–0. These are draft minutes; the final City Council action is not part of this record.
Zoning variance · Zoning Board of Appeals · Park Ridge
Recorded step (recorded in draft minutes), May 23 2019 · Evidence
A variance request at 610 Devon Avenue was noticed for a Zoning Board of Appeals hearing, but the City Planner reported at the meeting that the request had been withdrawn. The minutes do not describe the relief that was requested.
Zoning variance · Zoning Board of Appeals · Park Ridge
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Mar 28 2019 · Evidence
The Zoning Board of Appeals recommended that the City Council approve a major variance allowing an aboveground swimming pool at 1304 S. Prospect Avenue to be set back less than the required distance from the south property line. The roll call was 4–0. These are draft minutes; the final City Council action is not part of this record.
Zoning variance · Zoning Board of Appeals · Park Ridge
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Feb 28 2019 · Evidence
The Zoning Board of Appeals recommended that the City Council approve major variances allowing The Language Academy, a second-floor tenant without a storefront at 100 S. Prospect Ave, to install a wall sign on a multi-tenant building facing a public street. The draft minutes record that the motion carried on a roll call vote.
Zoning variance · Zoning Board of Appeals · Park Ridge
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Nov 29 2018 · Evidence
The applicant (John L. Bavester), represented by Neri Architects, sought major variances at 17 N. Merrill Street to add to a house whose north wall, including the chimney, encroaches into the required interior side yard. On November 29, 2018 the Zoning Board of Appeals voted 5–0 to recommend approval to the City Council, according to the staff cover memorandum to the Council. The department's annual report lists the variances as approved by the City Council. The parcel is PIN 09-25-326-012-0000.
Zoning variance · Zoning Board of Appeals · Park Ridge
Committee recommendation (recorded), Jan 24 2019 · Evidence
The Zoning Board of Appeals recommended that the City Council approve a major variance allowing a second-story addition to, and enlargement of, a house at 214 Columbia Ave that is nonconforming because of its front yard setback. The minutes record that the motion carried on a roll call vote; one commissioner abstained. The final City Council action is not part of this record.
Zoning variance · Zoning Board of Appeals · Park Ridge
Committee recommendation (recorded), Jan 24 2019 · Evidence
The Zoning Board of Appeals recommended that the City Council approve a major variance allowing a replacement detached garage at 201 Gillick St to sit closer to the centerline of a vacated alley than the Zoning Ordinance requires. The roll call was 4–2. The final City Council action is not part of this record.
Zoning variance · Zoning Board of Appeals · Park Ridge
On December 3, 2018 the City Council approved, on its consent agenda, a budget amendment to the Uptown TIF Fund to reimburse the Park District for eligible project costs under the City's intergovernmental agreement with the Park District. The staff memo put the amendment at $400,631. The memo says the agreement lets the Park District request funding in four specified years of the redevelopment agreement and that this was the fifteenth year. The consent vote was 6–0.
Public record · City Council · Park Ridge
Committee recommendation (recorded in draft minutes), Aug 23 2018 · Evidence
The applicants (Ryan and Renae Grob) sought a major variance at 1345 S. Knight Avenue to add a second story to a nonconforming house. After the hearing on August 23, 2018, a motion to approve the request was made and the board voted to recommend approval to the City Council; the staff cover memorandum to the Council reports the vote as 5–0. The department's annual report lists the variance as approved by the City Council. The parcel is PIN 12-02-106-014-0000.
On June 18, 2018 the City Council approved, on its consent agenda (6–0), the street resurfacing program contract with J.A. Johnson Paving Co. for $1,353,058.55. Staff reported $1,353,058.55 as the lowest bid and recommended the lowest responsive and responsible bidder. The program budget was $1,400,000, the level the Council had proposed at a budget workshop when it proposed enlarging the program.
Contract award · City Council · Park Ridge
2018 · Planning and Zoning Commission10 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 · Park Ridge
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 · Park Ridge
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 · Park Ridge
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 · Park Ridge
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 · Park Ridge
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 · Park Ridge
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.
Special use · Planning and Zoning Commission · Park Ridge
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.
Special use · Planning and Zoning Commission · Park Ridge
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 · Park Ridge
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 · Park Ridge
