The phrase "a variance request" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is formally asking for an exception to a rule or regulation, often in legal, zoning, or administrative matters.
Example: "The homeowner submitted a variance request to allow for a larger fence than what is typically permitted by local zoning laws."
Alternatives: "an exception request" or "a deviation request."
Larry Horowitz, co-chairman of the land-use committee, said the new variance request was approved with 58 underground parking spaces, down from 150 allowed by the previous variance for residential use.
Senator Boxer said that she was not seeking to take sides on Simplot's variance request, but that she wanted the government to get the science right because it could effect national standards on selenium.
It also provided that on a plant-by-plant basis, operators could request a variance on the ground that the cost of complying was significantly greater than the environmental benefits of compliance.
On Tuesday, Viacom, the parent company of WCBS, will appear before the Board of Standards and Appeals in Lower Manhattan to request a variance to add 99 feet to the 208-foot-tall auxiliary tower and increase its output by 15,000 watts.
An earlier version of the ordinance would have allowed officials to attach the preservation requirement as a condition for approving certain variances requested by a property owner if the city could find an appropriate connection between the accommodation being sought and the potentially historic sign on the property.
Now the seminary is requesting a variance to erect a new 17-story structure along its Ninth Avenue block front.
The couple requested a variance, which led to a heated hearing at City Hall, where, Ms. Salvaggio recalled, "all these neighbors we'd never talked to appeared out of the woodwork and were giving these god-awful testimonies".
Steve A. Israel, a Democratic town councilman, said the board was expected to act by the end of September on the request for a variance, from the current two-acre zoning.
On Sept. 28, by a vote of 5 to 2, the town Zoning Board of Appeals rejected the church's request for a variance that would have allowed it to exceed a 30-foot height limit on the 24-acre site it owns at Westchester Avenue and Kenilworth Road.
It's a request for a variance to build 2,500 more apartments on the last open space not just in the Upper West Side, but in midtown Manhattan (two blocks between 59th & 61st, West End Ave. and Riverside Boulevard). and Riverside Boulevard
