Muscogee council approves multiple rezonings and street/alley closures to enable local commercial and industrial uses

The City of Muscogee City Council on April 27 approved a series of land-use amendments and rezonings to allow commercial and industrial uses at several locations across the city.

Planner Miss Winkle told the council the applicant for 617 Elgen Street seeks a future land-use amendment and rezoning from I1 light industrial and R5 mobile-home zoning to C1 local commercial to allow Golden Rule to operate an adult day-care in part of the existing building. The council closed the public hearing, with no public commenters, and approved resolution 3077 and ordinance 4294A.

The council approved similar pairs of actions to reclassify 510 South 7th Street (ordinance 4293A) from R1 single-family residential to C1 local commercial and 627 Elgen Street (ordinance 4296A) from R4 multifamily residential and I1 to C1 local commercial. The southeast corner property at Elgen and 7th Street also was moved from R4 to C1 (ordinance 4295A). Councilors voted to authorize staff to update the official zoning map in each case.

Separately, an area adjacent to Port Place Road and North Herald Scroggins Road (Harris Road) was rezoned to Port Industrial under ordinance 4302A to allow future industrial use and development, a change staff said conforms with the future land-use plan.

Council also approved a requested street closure of River Drive between North 43rd Street East and North 46th Street East to support property consolidation and retention of utility easements, and an alley closure behind 2410–2412 Arline Avenue to facilitate consolidated lot access; staff said in both cases the city will retain required utility easements.

All rezoning, amendment and closure motions passed by roll-call vote; no members of the public registered to speak during the hearings.