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Metropolitan Area Planning Commission Public Hearing Minutes
November 30, 1957
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The City Planning Commission of Jonesboro, Arkansas, met to conduct a public hearing on the Land Use Plan and Map on November 30, 1957, at 2:30 P.M., in the City Hall.
MEMBERS PRESENT: Planning Commissioners Dean Ellis, Charles D. Frierson, Mrs. Clifford Hill, Elmer A. Stuck and Neal B. Thayer.
OTHERS PRESENT: Mayor Herbert Sanderson, Mrs. Dean Ellis and Mrs. Elmer A. Stuck.
MEMBERS ABSENT: City Planning Commissioners Jesse Banks, A.L. Hendrix, Minor Markle and Lloyd Rebsamen.
The hearing was called to order by Chairman Elmer A. Stuck.
Mr. Stuck announced that pursuant to legal notice published in the Jonesboro Sun on November 15, 1957, and pursuant to previous actions of the Jonesboro Planning Commission and the laws of the State of Arkansas, this hearing was being held to allow public discussion of the Jonesboro Land Use Plan and Map.
No objectors appeared at the hearing.
After discussion, moved by Dean Ellis, seconded by Mrs. Clifford Hill, and carried unanimously, that the Land Use Plan and Map be accepted and recommended to the Jonesboro City Council, subject to the following changes:
1. Omit area from Commercial District bounded by Oak Street, Church Street, Elm Street and Union Street.
2. Add areas to Commercial District bounded by Creath Street, Vandyne Street, Cate Street, and East Street.
3. Add area bounded on the west by Young Street, on the north be East Nettleton Avenue an don the east and south by the Jonesboro City Limits.
After discussion, moved by Charles D. Frierson, seconded by Dean Ellis, and carried, that preliminary approval be given to a subdivision of an existing lot belonging to Jim L. Binkley, subject to the granting of necessary utility easements in order that proper sewer and other utility service may be eventually extended into the subdivision.
There being no further business, meeting adjourned.