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Planning commission approves 16-bed mental health facility at 5119 Wheeler Avenue with conditions
Summary
A conditional use to convert an existing building at 5119 Wheeler Avenue into a 16‑bed mental health hospital was approved 6-1; the approval bars admission of convicted violent offenders above class B and includes screening measures.
The Fort Smith Planning Commission on Sept. 9 approved a conditional use allowing a 16‑bed mental health hospital to operate at 5119 Wheeler Avenue.
Planning staff presented Conditional Use 10-9-25, a request by owner Mike Hawthorne to allow the 8,548-square-foot building in an I-1 industrial zone to be used as a mental health hospital. The application would permit conversion of the existing structure into a facility with 16 bedrooms; the applicant proposed landscaping and an…
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