title
Metropolitan Area Planning Commission
January 24, 1958
body
The City Planning Commission of Jonesboro, Arkansas, met in special session on January 24, 1958, at 7:30 P.M., in the Engineering Office of City Water and Light Plant.
MEMBERS PRESENT: Planning Commissioners Dean Ellis, Mrs. Clifford Hill, Minor Markle, Lloyd Rebsamen, Elmer Stuck, and Neal B. Thayer.
OTHERS PRESENT: Mr. John Voorhees and Mr. Charles Taylor of the University of Arkansas Planning Division.
MEMBERS ABSENT: Planning Commissioners Jesse Banks, Charles Frierson, and Al Hendrix.
The minutes of a regular meeting held November 7, 1957, and a public hearing held November 30, 1957, were read and approved.
Chairman Stuck presented a draft of a proposed zoning ordinance, which had been discussed at several previous planning commission meetings.
The draft was examined, page by page, and several revisions, additions and corrections made.
It was moved by Lloyd Rebsamen, seconded by Dean Ellis, and carried, that a special meeting of the City Planning Commission be called at a convenient date for all and that the mayor, city council, and the city attorney be invited. Purpose of the meeting is to present the revised copy of the zoning ordinance and discuss it with all concerned.
The City Planning Commission examined a set of tracings representing a legal map prepared by the University of Arkansas, which had been authorized by the City Planning Commission at a previous meeting. IT was pointed out that local engineer Fred Haywood had spent the entire day with University of Arkansas people in checking this map.
It was moved by Lloyd Rebsamen, seconded by Mrs. Clifford Hill, and carried, that the City Planning Commission express to Fred Haywood its sincere appreciation for his assistance to the University of Arkansas personnel on these maps.
It was noted that the terms of three planning commissioners had expired as of December 31, 1957. It was moved by Lloyd Rebsamen, seconded by Minor ...
Click here for full text