Board of Adjustment

Meetings

  • 6:00 p.m.
  • Third Monday of each month as needed
  • Public Safety Complex at 614 Main Street

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Contact Us

  1. Matthew Lepke

    Planning and Zoning Director
    Email Matthew Lepke
    Phone: 641.628.0043

Members

Members are appointed by the Mayor, subject to City Council approval, for five-year terms.

NameTerm ExpiresPhone
Email Jim CorbettJanuary 4, 2021641.628.3150
Email Vince Nossaman (Vice-Chair)May 1, 2023641.780.4394
Email Merlan RolffsMay 1, 2023641.621.6149
Email Susan ReiterJanuary 4, 2021641.416.0126
Email Lyle Vander MeidenJanuary 1, 2022641.628.2610
Email Corey WestraJanuary 1, 2024515.419.6347
Email Mike Vander Wert (Chair)January 1, 2022515.224.4344
Email Jaci NunnikhovenJanuary 1, 2022
VacantJanuary 1, 2022


Powers & Duties

The Board of Adjustment consists of nine members: five city residents, one from Marion County, and one from Mahaska County for extraterritorial zoning.

The Board of Adjustment shall have only the following powers and duties:

  • Administrative Review - The board may hear and decide appeals where it is alleged there is error in any order, requirement, decisions, or determination made by the zoning administrator in the enforcement of this zoning ordinance or any regulation relating to the location or soundness of structures.
  • Special Use Permits - The board may hear and decide the approval of applications for special use permits.
  • Variances to Relieve Hardships Relating to Property - The board may authorize, upon appeal, variances where by reason of exceptional narrowness, shallowness, or shape of a specific piece of property at the time of enactment of the zoning regulations; or by reason of exceptional topographic conditions or other extraordinary and exceptional situation or condition of such piece of property, such strict application would result in peculiar and exceptional practical difficulties to or exceptional and undue hardships upon the owner of such property.