{"id":31742,"date":"2023-09-15T21:34:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T03:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-seeks-to-fill-vacancy-on-board-of-adjustment-and-appeals\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:45:18","slug":"cortez-seeks-to-fill-vacancy-on-board-of-adjustment-and-appeals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-seeks-to-fill-vacancy-on-board-of-adjustment-and-appeals\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez seeks to fill vacancy on Board of Adjustment and Appeals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=09042aa2-aec8-4d1c-9178-3f6feca3b077&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1371\" alt=\"Cortez city staff are finalizing the updated land use code.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Cortez city staff are finalizing the updated land use code.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The city of Cortez announced that it seeks a volunteer to fill a vacancy with the Board of Adjustment and Appeals.<\/p>\n<p>The board member will be accountable for yard area and lot coverage, hearing and deciding appeals, grant variances from flood hazard standards and to permit variance or modifications of structures\u2019 heights.<\/p>\n<p>The applicant should have some interest and knowledge about the land use code because that is the majority of information the board is presented with.<\/p>\n<p>Meetings will be held when needed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say they meet maybe two times a year,\u201d said City Clerk Linda Smith in an email.<\/p>\n<p>According to a news release, candidates should submit a letter of interest via email at <a href=\"mailto:lsmith@cortezco.gov\">lsmith@cortezco.gov<\/a> or to City Hall at City Clerk\u2019s Office, 123 Roger Smith Ave, Cortez, CO 81321<\/p>\n<p>The vacancy will remain open until filled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Position remains open until filled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-31742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81545,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31742\/revisions\/81545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31742"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=31742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}