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Council continues zoning review for 0 South Main Street after municipal planning split vote
Summary
Mount Vernon City Council on Jan. 27 gave a second reading to a proposed rezoning of 0 South Main Street from R1A to R3, but postponed a final decision while the law director researches a split municipal planning commission vote.
Mount Vernon City Council on Jan. 27 gave a second reading to an ordinance proposing to rezone parcels at 0 South Main Street from R1A (core residential) to R3 (attached residential), but council did not make a final decision and asked the law director to continue researching the procedural record.
At municipal planning, officials said, only four commissioners were present and the vote split 2–2, which the law director said created no formal recommendation to council. The law director reported he had researched the statute and conferred with other zoning lawyers and concluded the municipal planning commission had reviewed the application but issued no recommendation; council…
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