City council nixes request for downtown first-floor apartment
Having already been told the Glencoe City Council was going to decline his request for a special-user permit allowing him to convert the former dentist’s office on North Greeley Avenue into an apartment, Fred and Cathy Werth went to Monday’s council meeting waiting to hear what else councilors had in mind.
Monday evening, April 1, the council formally declined Werth’s proposal to transform 1015 Greeley Ave. N. from a dentist’s office into a single short-term apartment unit and agreed to refund his $100 application fee. During a city council workshop the previous Monday, March 25, the council was told via a memo from City Attorney Mark Ostlund the B-1 zoning district does not allow apartments on the garden or street level, only on the second floor.
(For the complete story, see the April 3 print edition of The Chronicle.)