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Applicant Pamela Hervey asks to create private family cemetery; commissioners ask for smaller plat after petition
Summary
Pamela Hervey asked the board for permission to designate 2 acres of her 20-acre tract as a private family cemetery; staff and commissioners said the submitted plat suggested roughly 300 potential gravesites, noted a 195-signature petition opposing the plan, and requested a revised survey limited to about 25–50 plots before any decision.
Pamela Hervey, the applicant, asked the Rankin County Planning Commission to allow a private family cemetery on a portion of her 20-acre property at 475 McLean Circle, saying she wanted two acres designated so family members who do not attend a Jackson church could be buried closer to home.
The board attorney opened the public hearing and said the plat Hervey submitted appeared to allow as many as "as many as 300 gravesites on this property," and reminded commissioners that the county applies state law in these cases. "This is a state law," the board attorney…
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