Several proposed street closings and an alley closing dominate the agenda for Tuesday’s Pine Bluff City Council meeting.
Four ordinances and four resolutions focus on such closings. The ordinances are due for second readings and seek the closure of:
• The alley between Cherry and Linden streets and Seventh and Eighth avenues.
• A portion of Parker Street.
• Part of Cottonwood Street and all of Cottonwood Circle.
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• Part of North Belair, South Belair, West Belair and Belle Meade Drives.
The resolutions call for the city clerk to publish notices of public hearings on the proposed closings.
Two other ordinances, up for initial readings, call for:
• Amending the city’s code of ordinances pertaining to fencing and screening requirements for automobile salvage, wrecking and junkyards; establishing a grace period for such establishments to come into compliance with city regulations; and providing for a penalty for violations.
• Providing for the rezoning of a parcel of land at East 38th Avenue and Ohio Street to Residential Planned Unit Development.
Three remaining ordinances call for the:
• Awarding to the Jefferson County Community Development Corp. the federal Community Home Development Corporations home funds – totaling $234,364 – for the years 2008, 2011 and 2012.
• Expressing the commitment of the city to provide a 10-percent grant match for improved traffic signals at the intersections of the Martha Mitchell Expressway and Hutchinson and Bryant streets and to maintain the system after installment.
• Providing for placement of costs of correcting certain nuisances on tax books as delinquent taxes and collected as such.
The council’s public safety committee will meet at 4 p.m. Tuesday while the ordinances and resolutions, and ways and means committees will meet at 5 p.m. The full council meeting will start at 5:30 p.m.