CIDNA Contact Information
Judy Berge, Chair Variance Committee 926-6265 (phone), 926-3156 (fax)
Chad Larson, CIDNA Chair 925-5180 (phone)
Procedures for Zoning Variance Requests
CIDNA Board of Directors Variance Request Procedures
You have requested a variance from the City building code. One of the items on your checklist is to contact your neighborhood association. To help facilitate and expedite our part of this process, the Cedar-Isles-Dean Neighborhood Association (CIDNA) has a Variance and Development Committee.
For the CIDNA Board of Directors to reach a decision, you need to do the following:
1) Contact CIDNA as soon as you know you will require a variance to discuss a timeline (contact information is listed below.) The CIDNA Board of Directors meets the first Tuesday of each month (no meeting in August), and the Variance and Development Committee will need approximately 3 weeks to review a completed variance request before it can make a recommendation to the full CIDNA Board at the next board meeting. We encourage you to attend the CIDNA Board meeting at which your variance request will be heard.
2) Arrange for fax or delivery of 4 copies of your completed variance request to the Chair of the Variance and Development Committee.
3) Include with this variance request any information that you have gathered for the City. For example, neighbor signatures, petitions, etc. Give us any information you think may be helpful.
Criteria for our decision when we review your variance request:
1) Since CIDNA exists, by design, to serve the neighborhood and its residents, our most important criteria is that your project have no adverse impact on your neighbors. For this reason, it is extremely helpful to us if you have talked to your neighbors directly and provided us with signatures that they have no opposition to your project. This carries the most weight.
2) Does the variance request conform to other variance requests granted in the neighborhood.
3) Is the variance request in keeping with the character of the neighborhood.
4) Does the variance request meet the Board of Adjustments 5 required findings for variances. Since we are advisory and not regulatory in nature, this is for our information only. CIDNA does not assume responsibility to ensure your variance request meets these 5 findings.
What we will do after we have reviewed your variance request:
1) The Variance and Development Committee will contact you if there is insufficient information to make a recommendation. Incomplete information could delay the process. The Committee will advise you of the recommendation it will make to the full CIDNA Board.
2) The Variance and Development Committee will make one of the following recommendations to the CIDNA Board:
a) No Opposition to the variance request.
b) No support for the variance request. (Oppose)
c) Offer no opinion.
3) The CIDNA Board will make and vote on a motion based on one of the three recommendations.
4) We will fax or e-mail a letter containing the CIDNA Boards recommendation to the Board of Adjustment, with a copy to you. The receipt of this communication by the Board of Adjustment should complete your process with CIDNA.