zoning update

May 10, 2006 at 3:08 pm | In housing, co-ops, Chicago |

This is a follow-up to my previous post about zoning. 

I have not spoken with attorney, Mark Kupiec, since April 19th.  At that time, he told me visited Gerald Garcia in Zoning 6 times and found new objections each time.  He was hoping for a denial “any day now.” 

On May 2nd we found out from Aggie in Mark’s office that there was an additional objection from the City, relating to existing ceiling height.  Our architect provided a letter stating that the ceiling is sloped and that the average existing height is 6’9.5”. 

On May 9th, Mr. Garcia said that wasn’t good enough, he needs a section drawing showing the exact height at each point.  Anything less than 6’9” is not legal living space with regards to FAR, which is why this is important.  I spoke with Peter, our architect, today and he’ll put the average on the drawing and send it to Mark.

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  1. […] This is a follow-up to my last post on zoning.  In that post I told you how our architect was going to put the average ceiling height on the drawings to address the legal-floor-area issue (Zoning says 6′9″ is legal so if we’re below that, we’re increasing floor area, which is an issue - Permits says legal has to be 7′6″ which is why we’re in this mess to begin with).  Peter (the architect) did that and it still wasn’t good enough.  He then produced a sort of inverted topographical map of the ceiling which today was accepted! […]

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