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Madison County Board rezones Rosewood Heights convenience store despite neighbor opposition
Summary
After a heated debate about packaged liquor and possible future gaming, the County Board voted 19-9 on April 21 to rezone a Farm Fresh convenience store site in Rosewood Heights from R-3 to a tailored B-5 business district with conditions limiting certain uses.
The Madison County Board on April 21 approved a zoning map amendment to reclassify a convenience-store parcel at 740 E. Airline Drive in Rosewood Heights from R-3 single-family residential to a tailored B-5 planned business district, a move opponents said could make it easier for the site to sell packaged liquor or later seek video gaming.
The measure, filed as Z21-0014, passed on a roll-call vote of 19 in favor and 9 opposed after more than an hour of discussion among board members, county zoning staff and legal counsel.
Mick Madison, chair of the Building & Zoning Committee, framed the change as a correction of a long-standing mismatch between the property’s use and its zoning and said the B-5 designation allows the board to write conditions specific to that parcel. “We wrote the B-5 Business District in a way to make it to where the neighbors would see that there would not be able to be alcohol served,” Madison…
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