Greenland Leaders Take First Steps Toward Land-Use Plan
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GREENLAND - Residents should from the outset in the development of a vast area of plan allocation of Greenland, a regional planner said Tuesday night. Celia Scott Silkwood, with the Northwest Arkansas Regional Planning Commission, a plan for planning the Greenland and representatives of members of the city council at the beginning of the transformation of the city zoning codes and land-use plan business. “If you can, to the public of the nature and anyway, you have a good plan,” said Silkwood. A country is a plan for the “roadmap” for the city, such as the leaders want to develop their city, “said Silkwood. “You are not to rezone the whole city,” Silkwood said the group. “You’re going for a plan for the use of land by the city as a whole.” The group began its work cut for it. Greenland’s latest plan land use map is October 1985. This document is not only not to show, on a project for the country around Interstate 540, it does not even have the country on the map. The group reached an agreement that the first goal should be the country after the work along Interstate 540 and along US 71 corridor, which passes through the center of town. “There is not much you will be able to distinguish here (city hall) and the countries,” said Bill Yoes, the former mayor of Greenland. The area between the United States-71 was developed primarily as a residential area. Greenland also suffers from the lack of zoning limits. Currently, the only city on the areas of codes of commerce, agriculture, 1 and the residential-2. “At this moment, we have only the ceiling commercial,” said Planning Commissioner Brenda Reynolds. “Among those Beauty Shop a rendezvous near a Truck Stop. Silkwood said, the group at the beginning of the list of priorities, and it is to formulate a plan of work - the procedure for obtaining information and begin to implement the changes. “I know that you all have a sense of urgency,” said Silkwood. “However, this will take some time. If you want the concentration on I-540, we can update of the comprehensive plan, starting with the high traffic areas rather than selection from the list next to the entire city. ” Silkwood said, the group is the first stop for the amendment of the plan of land use. Then, she said, the Planning Commission and the city must go through their city codes and codes of planning land use. This would also be additional and different zoning designations used allows each zone. “We want the public, once we know how we are going about the process,” said Wayne Box, chairman of the Planning Commission. The group, the consensus seems to be at the Interstate 540 and US-71, Box said. “The rest may be gradually changing,” Box said. |