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Neighbors oppose rezoning request to legalize truck-parking lot at 5000 Ashland City Highway; council defers vote
Summary
Residents of the Scottsboro/Bells Bend area pressed the Metropolitan Council to reject a rezoning request that would legalize a truck-parking/contractor supply use at 5000 Ashland City Highway. The council deferred the item one meeting after several hours of testimony and evidence of code enforcement actions.
Neighbors in the Bells Bend/Scottsboro area urged the Metropolitan Council to reject a rezoning request that would permit building-contractor-supply and truck-parking uses at 5000 Ashland City Highway, a site already being used as a truck lot by Walker Trucking.
Councilmember Joy Kimbrough sponsored the rezoning ordinance and said she had held multiple community meetings on the project. The developer and the property owner described the parcel as prepared and landscaped and said they wanted a permanent, permitted location for equipment and trucks. “I am the owner of 5000 Highway 12. I...am so sorry that we did not I didn't had no clue that it was not the correct zoning that we are needing,” said Jason Walker, the lot’s owner, in public testimony.
Opponents presented a different history. Several residents and local advocates said the lot was created by fill and…
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