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Council approves Mason’s Cove conditional use permit with fence, landscaping and sound-barrier conditions
Summary
New Franklin City Council approved the Planning and Zoning Commission’s unanimous recommendation to grant a conditional use permit for Mason’s Cove, adding a revised condition requiring a fence, aesthetically pleasing landscaping and a sound barrier to protect adjoining residences.
New Franklin City Council on Jan. 2 unanimously approved a conditional use permit for the Mason’s Cove event venue, adopting Planning and Zoning’s recommendation and amending a condition to require a fence, aesthetically pleasing landscaping and a sound barrier to ensure security and privacy for adjacent residential properties.
The permit covers the venue’s indoor and outdoor commercial recreational uses. Council members heard more than an hour of technical discussion and neighborhood complaints about sound, fence siting and landscaping before voting to accept the recommendation from Planning and Zoning with the amended Condition 2.
Why it matters: Neighbors and the city have been negotiating the placement and appearance of a barrier that council and the applicant say is intended to reduce…
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