The Abilene Board of Adjustment considered a request to resume residential use and to allow reconstruction totaling more than 50% of replacement cost at 1457 Hollywood Drive during a meeting called to order at 8:31 a.m.

City planner Clarissa Ivy presented the case identified in the hearing notice as VA 2025-01 and said the request was made by the property owner, Mario Falcon. Ivy told the board the property is zoned light industrial, that residential use is not a permitted use in that zoning category, and that the application was reviewed under section 1.4 0.4 0.1 of the Land Development Code. She said the city notified property owners within a 200-foot buffer and received one written response in favor and zero opposed. Ivy also stated that several nonconforming residences exist elsewhere on Hollywood Drive and that granting the special exemption would not place an undue burden on public facilities, per the criteria the code requires the board to consider.

Owner Mario Falcon told the board he wants to return the property to a family home. "We just wanna get in the house and make it a family home for me and my children and my wife," Falcon said. He said electrical and plumbing work remain, that he has contractors lined up, and that he would move as soon as work is complete.

Board members briefly discussed the matter on the record. A motion to approve the special exemption and allow the reconstruction was made and a second was recorded. During the roll call portion captured in the transcript, Board Member Reiter was recorded as "yes" and Board Member Whitlock was recorded as "yes." The transcript does not capture the responses of the remaining board members; the meeting earlier stated the board has five members and that four favorable votes are required to approve any request. The board also noted that if a special exemption or variance is granted, the applicant has 180 days from the approval date to obtain any required building permit, and that appeals from the board's decision may be made to the district court within 10 days.

No members of the public spoke in opposition during the recorded hearing. After the exchange on the motion and votes that appear in the transcript, the agenda proceeded to any other business and the meeting closed.

The full administrative record (file VA 2025-01), including the final signed minutes and the complete vote tally, should be consulted for the official outcome and any conditions attached to approval.