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Resident asks council to revisit alley vacation after planning and zoning variance denied
Summary
Clarence Gordon asked Sioux City Council to reconsider a planning-and-zoning decision that denied vacation of an alley behind his property; staff said utilities and multiple adjacent owners complicate a partial vacation and council agreed to direct staff to revisit the matter and schedule reconsideration.
Clarence Gordon told the Sioux City Council on April 24 he needs an alley vacation so he can install a carport behind his property at 2310 South Clinton Street.
Gordon said planning and zoning denied his earlier vacation request and approved only a variance; he told the council he would offer permanent easements to neighbors and that the alley has never been opened since it was platted in 1889. He described fences,…
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