The unapproved courtyard wall at “The Real World” Denver house in LoDo.

– OK, so this isn’t the most exciting news in the world, but here’s an update on that post from last week concerning “The Real World” Denver’s apparent illegal construction of a courtyard wall at their Denver house. Denver Post reporter Scott Lieber checks in with this update from the hearing this morning…

– “The Real World” is off the hook — for now. The Lower Downtown Design Review Board postponed ruling on their architectural redesigns to the house at 1920 Market St. and will recall the case in November, after filming ends.

– The house — the old locale for B-52’s Billiards — underwent reconstruction in preparation for the show’s filming. To legally rebuild the place, the owners needed a zoning permit and board approval. But rather than earn approval from the LDDRB, “The Real World” went through the mayor’s office and acquired a temporary building permit, skipping one necessary step for reconstruction — approval from the LDDRB.

– Kerry Buckey, an assistant city attorney who oversees the board, called it a “mistake.�? Representatives from the architecture and design firms that made the adjustments appeared at the meeting, which took place at 1400 16th St. this morning at 7:45 a.m., but nobody from Bunim/Murray Productions or MTV showed.

– The main concern was the courtyard wall that they built at the house. It blocks the public from a patio area and also has two mini-garage doors for privacy. Behind it is a hot tub and basketball court. Board members took issue with the garage doors, specifically. Before MTV built the wall, a chain-link fence had occupied the area, offering the public a view of the courtyard.

The inside of the courtyard at “The Real World” Denver house in LoDo.

– The design board said it wasn’t prepared to do anything before the November close-out (when MTV’s lease ends), so it accepted the wall as a temporary structure and said it would rule on the project at its Nov. 2 meeting. If representatives fail to appear at that meeting, the wall will be removed.

– Board members noticed the redesigned area only recently, Buckley said, which is why the issue came forth so long after production started. At the November meeting, board members will hear the case “as if it were being looked at for the first time,�? said member Paul Haack. The board will determine whether the wall will be approved or whether it will require changes.

– According to CBS4 reporter Brian Maass, who broke the story last week, the wall 20-foot-high wall cost $25,000 to build.

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