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Cedar Rapids council approves wide raft of zoning and public works measures
At the Wednesday Cedar Rapids meeting the mayor and all commissioners were present as resolutions and ordinances passed unanimously. The agenda included annexation petitions for 3724 Beechercourt NW and a portion of Blairs Ferry road, multiple rezoning requests from R-2 to R-3 R-4 and M-1, and a suite of public safety and infrastructure actions such as a March of Dimes walk, first readings on dance flyer space, storm sewer projects, and purchases for parks and public works including a 1975 GMC duo, a Toro equipment line, a John Deere tractor, and a Vietnam veterans memorial plaque installation.
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Cedar Rapids
James Congwer
Beechercourt
Linn County Board of Supervisors
Blairs Ferry Road
Wilson Avenue
Dale G
Dorothy Newport
Bowling
Twenty-sixth
Twenty-seventh Avenues
Shepard Construction Co
Bowling Street
Twenty-fifth Avenue
Hull Avenue SE
Lotus Schwartz
Don Ackerman
Edgewood Road
Forty-second Street
Life Investors Development Co
George
Dorothy Zinser
March of Dimes
Wilbur Smith and Associates
First Avenue
Varitech
Cnde
Lovely Lane
Kenwood
Prairie Drive
Huston Street
Ambroz Recreation Center
Parks Department
Toro
John Deere
Memorial Commission
May's Island