The Rock Island Board of Zoning Appeals met Oct. 12 to review variance requests.
Here is the meeting's agenda, as provided by the board:
Rock Island Board of Zoning Appeals
Council Chambers—Third Floor—City Hall
1528 – 3rd Avenue
Regular Meeting Agenda
October 12, 2016
7:00 PM
1. Call to Order and Roll Call
2. Introduction of Ryan Berger, Interim Planning and Redevelopment Administrator
3. Approval of the Minutes of the regular meeting of August 10, 2016
4. Procedural Explanation
5. Public Hearing #2016-18: The applicant, John Curtis, has filed a request for a variance of 300 feet of the 300 foot separation requirement between an existing Unrelated Group Family Use and a proposed Unrelated Group Family Use in an R-3 (one and two family residence) district at 3224 8th Avenue.
6. Public Hearing #2016-19: The applicant, the Rock Island County Public Building Commission has filed a request for a variance of 3 feet of the 25 foot maximum height for a freestanding light pole within 500 feet of a residential property, a variance of five feet of the five foot wide parking lot landscaped area required for a side yard or rear property line and a variance of 18 total canopy trees from the 24 canopy tree requirement for a 122 space accessory parking lot in a B-3 (community business) district at 1308, 1310, 1312, 1314, 1316, 1316 ‰, 1318, 1320 ‰, 1322, 1324, 1326 and 1328 3rd Avenue and 306, 308, 310 and 312 14th Street.
7. Public Hearing #2016-20: The applicant, Jim Ward, has filed a request for a variance of 3 feet of the 6 foot side yard setback requirement for an accessory structure in a side yard in an R-2 (one family residence) district at 3223 31st Avenue.
8. Public Hearing #2016-21: The applicant, the Martin Luther King Jr. Center, has filed a request for a variance to allow a fourth sign from the requirement to only allow one sign on the property and a variance of 7 square feet of additional sign area from the maximum total of 30 square feet of sign area for a community center in an R-3 (one and two family residence) district at 630 9th Street.
9. Other Business
10. Adjournment