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San Benito commissioners approve two rezones, ratify payments and deny telecom rate increase
Summary
At its March 18 meeting the San Benito City Commission approved two commercial rezones, ratified payments for fitness equipment and a lift-station retainage, and voted to deny a routine consumer price index adjustment to municipal telecom access-line rates. A separate agenda item on document scanning was tabled to the next meeting.
The San Benito City Commission on March 18 approved final readings of two rezoning ordinances, ratified vendor payments related to a fitness-equipment grant and a sewer lift-station project, and voted to deny a consumer price-index adjustment to municipal telecommunication access-line rates.
The actions were taken during the regular meeting after routine public comment and consent-agenda votes. Commissioners approved rezoning requests to allow commercial uses at two properties, ratified a $34,500 payment for fitness-equipment installation, approved a $29,209.05 retainage release for a lift-station project, and denied a 2025 consumer price index (CPI) increase to telecom right-of-way access-line rates. A separate, larger agenda item on digitizing city records was tabled to the next meeting.
Planning staff presented the rezoning requests. Ordinance No. 2252-AF-O3-2025 rezones property owned by Juan Ruben Vela from AO (agriculture/open space) to C-2 (commercial, general retail) to allow a wood-molding and hardware business. Planning staff said the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval; the…
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