The City of Morgantown Board of Zoning Appeals continued multiple agenda items involving off‑street parking and conditional‑use questions because applicants or representatives were absent or significant materials were incomplete.
Cases continued included a conditional‑use/occupancy request for a fraternity house at 709 High Street (applicant James Morrison), a variance request for off‑street parking at 731 Wells Street (John Espinosa), and a multi‑unit rental parking variance at a property presented as VAR25‑081 (three‑unit rental). Planning staff explained there was insufficient information and no applicant representative on several cases; board members who noted neighborhood impacts asked to have fuller documentation and a representative present.
For the fraternity house application, planning staff said the property historically was used as a fraternity but lacked current certificate‑of‑occupancy paperwork; board members moved to continue the item to the next regular meeting to allow the applicant to appear and to provide documentation about charter status and parking.
For the Wells Street and the multi‑unit rental cases, the board cited missing details about on‑site topography, feasible locations for off‑street parking and historical usage. In each case the board voted to continue the hearing to the next regular meeting rather than act in the applicants’ absence.
Board members instructed planning staff to notify applicants of the new hearing date and to request supporting materials — site plans showing grading and potential parking layouts, proof of organizational charters where applicable, and documentation of historical use — before the continued hearing so the board can evaluate variances on evidence rather than in the applicants’ absence.