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Palmyra council opens and closes public hearings on rezoning and right-of-way vacation; city attorney gives first readings on five ordinances
Summary
Mayor Alan Adrian opened public hearings on rezoning 1603 South Main and vacating part of West Main Cross; both hearings closed. City Attorney James Lemon provided first readings of five bills covering parking, mobile food vendors, peddler licensing, the rezoning, and the right-of-way vacation; no final ordinance votes were held.
Palmyra, Mo. — The Palmyra City Council opened two public hearings at 7:01 p.m. on Oct. 16 to take comments on a rezoning request by the Palmyra R‑I School District for 1603 South Main and on a request to abandon a portion of the public right-of-way in the 300 block of West Main Cross. Mayor Alan R. Adrian said questions were asked and answered; the public hearings were closed at 7:04 p.m. The transcript does not attribute public comments to named individuals.
Following the hearings, City Attorney James Lemon provided the first readings of five bills: Bill #1661 (amending Section 355.100 regarding prohibited parking of certain vehicles); Bill #1662 (retitling Chapter 625 to 'Mobile Food Vendors' and enacting regulations for mobile vendors); Bill #1663 (moving 'peddler' language from Chapter 625 to Chapter 606 and renaming that chapter for itinerant vendors' and peddlers' licenses); Bill #1664 (rezoning 1603 South Main from R‑1 to S‑1 and amending the zoning map); and Bill #1665 (vacating the northerly portion of the public right-of-way adjacent to West Main Cross Street). These were presented as first readings; the transcript records no ordinance adoptions on these items during the Oct. 16 meeting.
Council Member Rex Thomas reported that an ordinance committee met to finalize discussion on a proposed trailer ordinance; the committee recommends moving forward with the trailer ordinance as presented and providing a business owner six months to relocate a trailer. Other informational updates included a finance committee TEAMS meeting with Navigate to support an upcoming project, issuance of Phase I Brownfield reports, a BPW tour of the service department and new warehouse and scheduling of an easement meeting related to a raw water line, and work on new gutters and downspouts for the Palmyra Recycle Center funded by donated money Jim Bross obtained.
No votes on the first-reading ordinances were recorded at the meeting. Several visitors who had attended the hearings left the meeting at 7:30 p.m.
