Times Editorials : Unfinished business
With respect to veterans, sale barn decision is due
Posted: September 14, 2009 at 4:40 a.m.
Regarding Tuesday's meeting of the Fayetteville City Council, it's worth noting that the first item mentioned under unfinished business begins this way: "An ordinance rezoning that property described in rezoning petition RZN 09-3271, for approximately 8.87 acres, located at the old Washington County Sale Barn... " The effort to switch that land from a listing of heavy commercial/light industrial - thus making room for a set of apartment buildings that many Northwest Arkansas veterans are fighting tooth and nail - has been gestating for some time. The city notes that this ordinance was left on the first reading on June 16; meanwhile, the second reading fell on July 7, and the third on July 21. It was tabled again at the council's Aug.
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