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Resident urges council to reject high-density zoning for 13-acre tract at Business 69 entrance
Summary
John Kelso told the council the parcel behind Greenville's 'Welcome' sign (about 13 acres) is poorly suited to high-density residential use because it borders a cemetery, civic center, single-family areas and other nonresidential uses, and he asked the council to discourage premature rezoning applications.
John Kelso, a Greenville resident, used the citizens-to-be-heard portion to ask the council to consider adjacent land uses before approving high-density residential zoning for a roughly 13-acre tract near the Business 69 split. Kelso described adjacent properties — a cemetery and the Fletcher Warren Civic Center to the north, a bank and church to the south, single-family neighborhoods to the west, and commercial services nearby — and said those contexts make intensive residential uses incompatible.
"One of the things that anytime you're doing a zoning change, you have five questions you ask... two of them relate to adjacent property," Kelso said, urging the council not to let applicants waste three years of city and resident time on an incompatible plan. He closed by urging staff and council to use compatibility with neighboring uses as a primary test before advancing any rezoning.
