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Chester council approves zoning change for smoke shops and passes five resolutions, including Vision Zero and a $3 million grant request
Summary
The City of Chester Council on July 9 approved an ordinance to permit smoke shops and tobacco stores by conditional use in parts of the city and adopted five resolutions, including a Vision Zero safety commitment and authorization to seek up to $3 million in multimodal grant funding.
The City of Chester Council on July 9, 2025 approved Ordinance No. 3 of 2025, which amends Part 13 (planning and zoning) of the city code to permit smoke shops and tobacco stores in the Central Business District (CBD) and Medium Industrial Commercial (MIC) district by conditional use and to define related terms and conditional‑use criteria. The ordinance passed on its second and final reading.
Councilmembers also voted to adopt five resolutions that night. They approved an honorary street renaming for Reverend Doctor E. Irvin Millsaps, adopted a Vision Zero commitment to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries by 2050, authorized a multimodal transportation fund grant application not to exceed $3,000,000 and designated the mayor and city clerk to execute related documents, authorized the Chester Economic Development Authority (CEDA) to apply for Keystone…
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