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Council committee backs rezoning of 10,000‑square‑foot Mount Vernon lot, orders public hearing
Summary
A Lawrence council subcommittee recommended rezoning a 10,000‑square‑foot parcel in the Mount Vernon neighborhood from Industrial 1 to Residential 1 and voted to order a public hearing after staff said the lot cannot practically be used for industrial purposes.
A council zoning subcommittee voted to recommend rezoning a 10,000‑square‑foot parcel in the Mount Vernon neighborhood from Industrial 1 to Residential 1 and ordered a public hearing on the change.
Planning staff member Mister McCarthy told the committee the parcel fronts on Madison Street and is effectively inaccessible from the adjacent Lawrence Industrial Park. “It has no value as industrial land because it is the back portion of a part of land that is off of Powers Street,” McCarthy said, adding the lot was created in 1969 and is “a buildable lot in District 1.”
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