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City council approves zoning, contracts and code updates; multiple routine items pass
Summary
The Des Moines City Council on Jan. 13 approved a slate of routine and contested items, including rezonings, street and bridge contracts, municipal code amendments and applications for grant funding. Most votes passed unanimously; one zoning board review drew a 6-1 (with one abstention) outcome.
The Des Moines City Council on Jan. 13 approved multiple rezoning requests, construction contracts, municipal code changes and a community development grant application during a meeting that ran through a full agenda and an extended public-comment period.
The council front-loaded routine business, unanimously appointing Mike Simonson as mayor pro tem and approving the meeting agenda and consent agenda (items 3–32). After public hearings and staff presentations, the council approved a series of zoning and land-use items, awarded construction contracts, and adopted several municipal code amendments by roll-call votes.
The decisions included first- and final-reading rezoning approvals for downtown and neighborhood properties (items 34, 35 and 36), a land-exchange for the Southeast Connector project (item 37), application for a Community Development Block Grant through the Iowa Economic Development Authority (item 30), and multiple street and infrastructure contracts. The council also approved amendments to Chapter 114 of the municipal code (traffic regulations), updated definitions in Section 114-1,…
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