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Applicants revise rear addition and detached garage design; board hears parking and aesthetic concerns
Summary
Applicants for a rear addition and detached garage on McLean Road described changes to fenestration, rooflines and materials to address an aesthetic review and a parking-area variance; board members debated height, compatibility with Grandview Heights character and whether to table the matter until a full board is present.
Applicants for a project on McLean Road told the Grandview Heights Planning & Zoning Board on June 11 that they had added vertical windows, a horizontal trellis and modest roof changes to reduce the apparent mass and respond to earlier comments on aesthetic review and a requested parking-area variance.
The discussion mattered because the board must decide whether the addition and new detached garage are sufficiently “secondary” to the historic house and whether the rear yard area used for driveway and parking exceeds the zoning limit. The applicants asked the board to consider their revised drawings and raised the option of tabling the matter until the commission is at full membership.
At the start of the item, staff noted the board was operating with three members present, and reminded applicants that a variance requires three affirmative votes…
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