NEWS
Easy Street Shelter asks for property deed, citizens questions rezoning
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
The Saint Jo City Council was greeted with a full meeting room for its December session as citizen questions about a potential new business and discussions on the future of Easy Street Shelter both on city property were the primary topics.
On its Dec. 13 agenda, the council considered a request to amend the city’s zoning ordinance to rezone a tract of land 59.01 acres at U.S. Highway 82 and Field Road from agricultural to commercial.
This area includes city-owned property.
During the last year there have reportedly been conversations with officials from Dollar General interested in finding a location in the Saint Jo area. Mayor Shawn Armstrong and Mayor Pro Tem Carla Hennessey both confirmed the city has been working with its lawyers on these discussions, but no decisions have been made.
Easy Street Shelter officials are concerned how this could impact its operation which is located on city property via a lease, while one citizen questioned if the city had followed all the necessary rules regarding this subject.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
(Top) Members of the Saint Jo City Council (around the table) listen to Cynthia Castle of the Easy Street Shelter (center end of table) at the recent council meeting. (News photo by Barbara Green)
On Friday city officials reported the intersection at Rock and Pillar was closed due to a sinkhole in the street. This area has been experiencing major drainage problems for many years damaging culverts and the street asphalt and concrete, with a portion of the street collapsing earlier in the spring. Drivers should avoid this area.
The Nocona City Council approved a trio of Nocona Economic Development Corporation requests and considered infrastructure work questioned by a city council.
Councilors met on June 10. Two of the NEDC requests had already been presented with the timeclock for comment started. With that time limit over, the requests were finalized.
The Type A and B Boards will spend $19,225 at the Indian Oaks Golf Club for equipment, aerifying and top dressing the greens and batteries for rental carts. It also will expend $20,000 to the Nocona Chisholm Trail Rodeo Arena Committee to build new concrete bleachers, railings, fence and platform.
The third NEDC request is a new one related to a Type B board loan of $200,000 to Amy and Chris Nunneley for a new apartment and office construction project.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
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