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Council asked for exceptions to zoning code

Should the city grant variances on its zoning code for specific requests from citizens? The Sundance City Council had three opportunities to consider this question at last week’s meeting, and the answer was different for each unique circumstance.

Mayor Paul Brooks opened a public hearing for a zoning change with a little history on how the zoning code came to be. Years ago, he said, there was no zoning at all in Sundance and the city was a “hodge podge” of different types of property.

The council went through a lot of effort to get it zoned, he said, modeling its code off the one crea...

 
 
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