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Council approves Court Square rezoning, clears a slate of special permits and change-of-petitioner items
Summary
The Springfield City Council approved a Court Square rezoning to Business B to support transit-oriented redevelopment and voted to approve multiple special permits and change-of-petitioner items at its March 23 hearings meeting. Supporters said the rezoning will enable mixed-income housing and redevelopment near Union Station.
The Springfield City Council voted March 23 to rezone portions of the Court Square urban renewal district from Industrial A to Business B, and then moved through a series of special-permit and change-of-petitioner items that the council approved by roll call.
Tim Sheehan, executive director of the Springfield Redevelopment Authority and the city’s chief development officer, presented the Court Square rezoning as an effort to allow mixed-income, transit-oriented redevelopment near Union Station. "The district is ripe for mixed income multifamily residential development," Sheehan said, noting the area’s…
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