West Cook News

The River Forest Zoning Board of Appeals will hear a request for a variance to build a second floor on a home at 30 Franklin Ave., during its next meeting 7:30 p.m. today in the Community Room of River Forest Village Hall, 400 Park Ave.

The River Forest Zoning Board of Appeals holds hearings and makes recommendations to the Village Board regarding applications for zoning variations, rezoning, zoning code text amendments, appeals and special use permits. The board meets at 7:30 p.m. on the second Thursday of each month in the Community Room of Village Hall.

Below is the agenda for this meeting, as provided by the board.

RIVER FOREST

ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS

MEETING AGENDA

A meeting of the River Forest Zoning Board of Appeals will be held on

Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 7:30 P.M. in the Community Room of the River

Forest Village Hall, 400 Park Avenue, River Forest, Illinois.

I. Call to Order

II. Approval of the Minutes from the meeting of the Zoning

Board of Appeals on May 26, 2016.

III. Variation Request – 30 Franklin Avenue

IV. Adjournment

LEGAL NOTICE

ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS

RIVER FOREST, ILLINOIS

Public Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held by the Zoning

Board of Appeals of the Village of River Forest, County of Cook, State of

Illinois, on Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. at the Community Room of

the Municipal Complex, 400 Park Avenue, River Forest, Illinois on the

following matter:

The Zoning Board of Appeals will consider a zoning variation application

submitted by Elizabeth Cheng and Charles Kerstetter, owners of the property

at 30 Franklin Avenue, who are proposing to construct a second story

addition onto the existing home. The applicants are requesting variations to

Section 10-9-7 that would allow the north wall the home (which does not

conform to the required side yard setback) to increase in height from one

story to two stories, and to allow the addition of a roof overhang at the

second floor level to match the overhang of the existing roof (which does not

conform to the required side yard setback).

The Zoning Code prohibits any increase in height of a wall which maintains a

non-conforming side yard setback. The Zoning Code requires the roof eave

to have a minimum 3 foot side yard setback.

The legal description of the property at 30 Franklin Avenue is as follows:

LOT 30 IN BLOCK 8 IN E.S. CONWAY’S RESUBDIVISION OF

RANSON’S SUBDIVISION OF THE WEST HALF OF THE EAST HALF

OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 12, TOWNSHIP 39

NORTH, RANGE 12 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN

COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS.

All interested persons will be given the opportunity to be heard at the public

hearing. A copy of the meeting agenda will be available to the public at the

Village Hall.

Clifford Radatz

Secretary

Zoning Board of Appeals