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Zoning panel declines to recommend rezoning of West 30 Second Street property
Summary
Dubuque— zoning advisory commission voted not to recommend rezoning a vacant parcel on West 30 Second Street from R-1 single-family to OR (office-residential) after residents raised concerns about spot zoning, parking and traffic; the matter will go to City Council on Aug. 18.
DUBUQUE, Iowa — The Zoning Advisory Commission on Aug. 6 voted not to recommend rezoning a vacant parcel at West 30 Second Street (parcel ID 2627007) from R-1 single-family to OR, an office-residential district, after neighbors raised objections about possible uses, parking and traffic and staff said the council would require a supermajority to change the zoning.
The commission's decision followed a public hearing in which neighbors said they bought homes expecting a single-family neighborhood and expressed concern that OR zoning allows a wide range of principal uses. "Office is one of the things listed under the principal permitted uses, but there's also another very varied wide range," resident Joni Heitzman…
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