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Metropolitan Area Planning Commission Special Session Minutes
June 1, 1955
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The City Planning Commission of Jonesboro, Arkansas, met in special session on June 1st, 1955, at 1:15 P.M., in the Chamber of Commerce Office.
MEMBERS PRESENT: Dean Ellis, Charles Frierson, Mrs. Clifford Hill, Minor Markle, Lloyd Rebsamen, Elmer Stuck, and Neal Thayer.
OTHERS PRESENT: Aldermen Virgil Snow, and L.B. Hamilton of the Jonesboro City Council Street Committee, and Richard Forbes of the University of Arkansas Planning Commission.
MEMBERS ABSENT: Jesse Banks and Al Hendrix.
The meeting was called to order by Chairman Charles Frierson and the minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved.
Chairman Frierson called for a report from Lloyd Rebsamen, Chairman of the Street Committee, on his conferences with the Street Committee of the City Council and his study of a preliminary traffic count, made by the State Highway Department, as related to the proposed major street system map of the Master Street Plan. Mr. Rebsamen reported that his studies with the joint committees of the Council and the Planning Commission and with the highway map showed that the proposed map was substantially in accordance with present usage.
It was moved by Elmer Stuck, seconded by Minor Markle, and passed unanimously that Map #2, designated Major Street System of the Master Street Plan, be officially approved by the Planning Commission and recommended to the Jonesboro City Council for their consideration and action.
Considerable discussion on right of way protection followed, centering around the difficulties encountered in establishing set back building lines where existing high cost structures front on the street in question. It was agreed that the Street Committee would discuss with the city attorney the proper drafting of ordinances or other documents which could solve this problem As a matter of policy, the commission agreed to further study with the Street Committee...
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