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Long Beach board denies curb-cut variance at 74 Delaware Avenue after applicant testimony
Summary
The City of Long Beach zoning board denied a request to legalize a combined 30-foot curb cut at 74 Delaware Ave., concluding the configuration exceeded the 25-foot limit in code; applicants were told they could alter the opening to meet code or seek judicial review.
At a City of Long Beach zoning board hearing, the board voted to deny the variance application from Patricia and Joseph Gummis of 74 Delaware Avenue to authorize a combined 30-foot curb cut for off-street parking. The motion to deny carried by a 4-3 vote after more than an hour of testimony and questioning.
The applicants told the board they lifted their house in 2018, which created parking beneath the house and left a detached garage on an adjacent lot. Patricia Gummis said they had secured multiple certificates of occupancy over time and that they believed earlier approvals allowed the current curb configuration. "We didn't even know this at the time," she said, describing how they discovered they had lost recognized off-street parking only after…
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