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Metropolitan Area Planning Commission Minutes
July 11, 1968
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The City Planning Commission met in session on Thursday, July 11, 1968 at 7:30 P.M. in the City Hall.
MEMBERS PRESENT: A.E. Scott (Chairman), Glenn Lane, Clay Kenward, Bob Harrison, Mabe Spurlock, Buddy Melton, Frank Falls Jr., and Jack Jarrett.
OTHERS PRESENT: Brooks Griffith (representing the Public Works Department).
Chairman A.E. Scott called the meeting to order and the following action on items of the agenda took place.
Chairman A.E. Scott declared the minutes of the June 27, 1968 meeting approved as read with no changes to be made.
Chairman announced that the meeting was open for public hearing on items that had been advertised for rezoning, and these items were presented in the following order:
Item #1. Mr. Ryburn- to change the zoning from Residential (R-1) to Commercial (C-3) of a tract of land described as: Begin at the quarter corner of Section 20 and 29, Township 14 North, Range 4 East, thence West on the Section line 757 feet to the point of beginning proper; thence North 00 degrees 58’ East 375.8 feet; thence North 89 degrees 58’ west 562.9 feet; thence North 01 degrees 00’ East 53.9 feet; thence West 858 feet; thence South 00 degrees 14’ West 430 feet to the section line, thence East on the section line 1421.1 feet to the point of beginning proper. The above described tract is a part of Cobb and Lee’s Survey of the Southwest Quarter of Section 20, Township 14 North, Range 4 East.
Received letter from Mr. C.L. Geis, Superintendent of Jonesboro Public School was read as follows:
At its last meeting, on July 9, 1968, the Board of Directors of the Jonesboro Public Schools requested me to inform you of their resolution opposing a zoning change from Residential to Commercial in the area of Hillcrest School.
Such change in zoning would, in the Board’s opinion, destroy the real purpose of neighborhood schools erected to serve residents of a given area.
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