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Zoning board approves variance for parking-pad extension at 320 North Summit
Summary
The Bowling Green Zoning Board of Appeals unanimously approved a variance permitting a 384-square-foot extension of an existing parking pad at 320 North Summit Street that exceeds the 1,200-square-foot parking-pad limit in the city code.
The Bowling Green Zoning Board of Appeals on a unanimous vote approved a variance allowing a previously constructed parking-pad extension at 320 North Summit Street that increases the pad to about 1,624 square feet, 384 square feet over the 1,200-square-foot limit set by the zoning code.
The variance matters because the city’s zoning code establishes a 1,200-square-foot limit for a ground-level parking pad; the pad at 320 North Summit existed in a legal nonconforming state under the code adopted July 12, 2023, and the extension was built before a permit was obtained.
Planning Director Heather Sailor told the board that the code defines a parking pad as “a ground…
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