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Commission denies conditional-use permit for transitional boarding home at former Ritz
Summary
A conditional-use permit for a faith-based transitional housing program at 1415 East Broad was denied after a 3–2 roll call that the chair said did not meet a required 'forum of the whole commission' threshold; the applicant had proposed a state-licensed program for men leaving incarceration.
A plan to open a faith-based transitional boarding home for men at 1415 East Broad was denied by the Texarkana County Planning Commission after a procedural quorum issue followed a 3–2 roll call.
The applicant, identified in the filing as Tedro Jefferson of Malachi Group Trust, described a program called Pathway to Higher Dimension that would provide up to one year of structured transitional housing, job‑readiness training, counseling and spiritual mentorship for men leaving incarceration. Jefferson…
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