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Metropolitan Area Planning Commission Minutes
August 15, 1957
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The City Planning Commission of Jonesboro, Arkansas, met in regular session on Thursday, August 15, 1957, at 7:30 P.M., in the Engineering Office of City Water and Light Plant.
MEMBERS PRESENT: Planning Commissioners Charles D. Frierson, Mrs. Clifford Hill, Lloyd Rebsamen, Elmer Stuck, and Neal Thayer.
OTHERS PRESENT: Ben Wewers (citizen), Terry Shell (attorney), Fred Haywood (engineer) and John Voorhees of the University of Arkansas Planning Commission.
MEMBERS ABSENT: Planning Commissioners Jesse Banks, Dean Ellis, Al Hendrix and Minor Markle.
Fred Haywood and Terry Shell, on behalf of Ben Wewers, presented a plat of a subdivision called Wewers Addition to the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas. The Planning Commission recognized that this subdivision is outside the corporate limits of the City of Jonesboro and that it does not have jurisdiction. Moved by Charles Frierson, seconded by Elmer Stuck, and carried, that the plat of Wewers Addition be approved as presented, as conforming to the Jonesboro Subdivision Ordinance.
After further discussion, moved by Charles Frierson, seconded by Elmer Stuck, and carried, that the City Planning Commission recommend to the City Council that as lands are annexed to the City of Jonesboro, between Highway 63 and Highway 18 East, provisions for the extension of a street between these highways, roughly along the south line of the north half of Section 20, be preserved as near as it feasible for a street which could be the extension of Wilkins Street in an easterly direction.
The secretary presented a replat of Senter and Company’s Addition to the City of Jonesboro by William R. Stuck. After considerable discussion, moved by Charles Frierson, seconded by Elmer Stuck, and carried, that conditional preliminary approval be given to this replat, with a request that the developer make every effort to secure a full 60 foot wide street on the northerly...
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