The City of Lakewood Board of Zoning Appeals met on July 17, 2025, at 11:30 AM to consider two variance requests. The board approved both variances unanimously and handled routine administrative items.
Uh welcome to the July 17th, 2025 meeting of the City of Lakewood Board of Zoning Appeals. The first item on the docket is uh a roll call. Ms. Nocta, would you please call the roll? Michael Alexander. Jillian Bellino here. Matt Markling. Jeffrey Pigett. Here. Anthony Santiago. Here. Thank you. I'll make a motion to excuse Microsoft. I'll second. All in favor? Aye. And the second item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes of the May 15th, 2025 meeting. The June meeting was canceled. If everyone has had a chance to review the minutes, could we have a would someone like to make a motion to approve those minutes? I'll motion. I'll motion to approve the May 15th minutes. I'll second. All in favor? Aye. And the third item on the agenda are the opening remarks. Ms. Nocto, would you mind reading those into the record? Welcome to the Board of Zoning Appeals. For a variance to be granted, the board must get sufficient information from your presentation to determine if your property meets the practical difficulty test. All documents included with an application to the board and any addenda, statements, maps, diagrams, sketches, letters, photographs, or other materials proffered to the board by any person shall be considered by the board prior to rendering its decision on the application. No permit shall be issued unless submitted plans conformed to those approved by the board. If modifications are made to the approved plans, a successive variance request must be filed and approved to account for the modification. For the record, please sign the form on the podium and state your name and address. This serves as an oath or affirmation that you will tell the truth before the board. Thank you, Ms. Nocta. The first or the item four on the agenda is new business. It's docket number 07-11-25 1649 Bell Avenue. Would the applicant please step up to the podium and uh and sign your name and state your name and the relationship to the property, please? And then you can begin with your presentation after all of that. Hi, my name is Jason Height. I am the owner of the property at 1649 Bell Avenue. Hello everyone, I'm Mark Hubener, um resident of Cleveland, and I'm here to represent Larson Architects, the uh architect of record on this project. My name is Faith Kristowski. I'm also here to represent Larson Architects, the architect of record. So basically what we are looking at here, uh we've got a beautiful historic home. Uh we're proposing an addition. Uh the intent of the addition is to uh uh sort of allow a mother-in-law suite uh age in place sort of situation. Excuse me, could you speak up a little bit? My apologies, yes.