There are 62 article(s) tagged Board of Adjustment:
Local planning boards are sometimes criticized for giving rules exceptions to developers at the expense of residents and neighborhoods. But this month even St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - arguably the most popular and influential "developer" in town - did not get its way.
Plans for a new St. Jude building with security fencing and a windowless, ground-floor wall ignited a planning board's concern that it would deaden street life in the resurgent Pinch District. But ALSAC/St. Jude officials won concessions, saying safety of its ill children is a priority.
An emergency shelter is planned in Westwood; in Midtown and the Medical District, a property owner is requesting its apartment buildings be "legitimized."
Apple Partners is also behind the City Cottages project, which is building new homes around Memphis in the $300,000 range.
The Board of Adjustment approved variances so that ALSAC/St. Jude Children's Research Hospital can build temporary surface parking lots to accommodate the big expansion of its campus.
Three well-known Memphis institutions are seeking approval from the Memphis and Shelby County Board of Adjustment to expand their operations.
The owner of landfill in northeast Memphis is ordered to cease operations and hire independent experts to analyze soil and water at the property that backs up to the Wolf River.
The Board of Adjustment has given permanent approval for the shipping-container concession stand at River Garden park.
A new student housing project is planned near the University of Memphis at a former McDonald’s restaurant site.
Belz is requesting a microbrewery be allowed on land the company owns at 845 N. Main St. in Uptown.
The Board of Adjustment approved requests to build a car wash near East Memphis houses and a convenience store with gas pumps on the southern gateway to Downtown.