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After heated public comment, Evansville council denies two rezoning requests for recovery residences
Summary
Following extended public testimony about neighborhood density and safety, the Evansville Common Council on July 22 denied Ordinances R-2024-16 (971 E. Blackford) and R-2024-17 (819 E. Powell), both proposed to allow higher-occupancy recovery residences; council votes were 1–7 for each denial.
The Evansville Common Council on July 22 voted down two rezoning petitions seeking to permit larger recovery residences in established neighborhoods, after more than an hour of debate and public testimony.
Area Plan Commission staff Cassie Virgin described the zoning rationale: the petitioners sought R4 zoning to classify the properties under use-group 6 (group homes or boarding-house style supervised living), a category the current Evansville zoning code does not explicitly modernize for recovery residences. Staff noted that under existing zoning a single-family unit is allowed to house up to five…
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