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Planning Board approves one-year reinstatement to reopen Beazley’s convenience store at 377 N. Fairmont
Summary
The Kankakee City Planning Board voted to reinstate a legal nonconforming commercial use for up to one year at 377 N. Fairmont, allowing the applicants to operate a neighborhood convenience store if they meet fire, permitting, sidewalk and landscape-buffer conditions before occupancy.
The Kankakee City Planning Board voted to reinstate a legal nonconforming status enabling a convenience store at 377 North Fairmont Avenue for a one-year trial period, the board announced at its meeting.
Planning staff told the board that historical building records and action sheets show a storefront at the address dating back decades and that restoring the prior use is consistent with the structure’s long-standing pattern. Staff said the simplest route for the owners to resume operations is reinstatement of the legal nonconforming use rather than a planned-unit development or a full rezoning.
Applicant DeMarcus Bell and property owner Helen Bell described the site as a small neighborhood…
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