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Des Moines council approves a string of rezonings, contracts and code updates; planning denial for new liquor store on E. 14th

3765827 · May 6, 2025
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Summary

At its May 5 meeting the Des Moines City Council approved multiple rezoning and PUD amendments, awarded infrastructure contracts, and adopted municipal code amendments; it denied a requested liquor-store use on Southeast 14th Street following a planning commission recommendation to deny.

The Des Moines City Council on May 5 approved a broad slate of planning, infrastructure, and code items, including rezonings, planned-unit-development amendments, contract awards for street and traffic-systems work, and amendments to municipal code chapters that change definitions and review procedures.

Land-use approvals passed largely on consent. Final readings were approved for rezoning and plan amendments to allow reuse of existing buildings for a church on Easton Boulevard and a duplex at 6120 Indianola Avenue. The council also approved an Urban Dreams project to develop row homes at Seventh Street and an amendment to the United Properties Echo Valley…

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