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A conditional use permit application for a community living facility for 10 developmentally disabled adults at 462 Beach Ave. S.E. - heavily opposed by neigh boring property owners — was withdrawn before Huron City planning commissioners voted on the request Wednesday night. Boyd Wiedenman, 1655 McClellan Drive S.W., who applied for the permit as owner of the house at 462 Beach Ave. S.E., told com missioners after a petition containing the names of 60 neighboring residents had been submitted, ‘I don’t want to fight with my neighbors,” and he withdrew the request. Wiedenman said earlier he planned to sell the residence to the Huron Area Adjustment Training Center, Inc., if the permit was granted. He said the 10 develop mentally disabled adults who would reside at the facility would be the ‘advanced students”’ of the present com munity living facility at 205 Fourth St. S.E., in operation now for about a year. No one from the training staff appeared at the com mission meeting Wednesday night, although com missioners had in hand a letter from Tom Meekins, executive director of the center Tony Hofer, 452 Beach Ave. S.E., presented the com mission with a petition of opposition containing the names of 60 residents who he said resided within a block of the proposed living facility. He said two Huron realtors told him the facility would devalue his property, and he also said neighborhood op position to the facility could cause minor problems. Everett Raschke, 505 Beach Ave. S.E., testified the facility would have a bad influence on preschoolchildren. He sug gested commissioners adopt a resolution banning communi ty living facilities from an area unless there is unani mous approval from neigh bors. Police Commissioner Bill Ford said on the standpoint of the police department there have been no problems at the existing living facility at the corner of Fourth Street and Iowa Avenue S.E. In other action during a meeting which lasted until nearly midnight,planning commissioners approved a variance application by Skogen-Petersen, Inc. to have 22 instead of the required 57 parking spaces for a proposed 37-unit apartment complex at Tenth Street and Illinois Avenue S. Gary Skogen said it has been the experience of the developers at other locations that all of the required spaces are not needed at complexes occupied by low-income, elderly and handicapped persons. He said his company has applied for Section 8 funding for rental subsidy housing and added there are good in dications the application will be approved. Skogen said fewer parking spaces will allow more space for green areas and patios. Construction is planned to begin next spring. Commissioners again tabled a request by the Huron Nursing Home to rezone property east of the nursing facility from single to multiple family. Nursing home officials said Wednesday night they wish to construct an apartment facility for the elderly. Residents would be in dependent, but could take meals at the nursing home across the street and would have emergency care in case of problems, they said. But __ planning com missioners voted to table the request after neighbors, who had questions about the proposal, said they wanted to review the plans. They said a meeting was held last Friday, but that it was at an inconvenient time and called on short notice. Another meeting will be set up before the application is again considered by planning commissioners next month. Commissioners approved a home occupation permit for Leo Sevesind, 1470 Lincoln Ave. S.W., to sell Christmas trees from Nov. 15 to Dec. 25 this year, but denied home occupation permits for sale of firewood and bicycles. Commissioners said the sale of firewood and bicycles doesn't conform with the intent of the home occupation ordinance since the items are not prepared on the site and have to be brought in for sales purposes. They approved the permit to sell trees this year only, and indicated they would consider an application again next year. However, com missioners said should the area develop in the next year the permit probably wouldn't be approved in 1979. Acting commission chairman Everett Hoyt told Levesind his sales of firewood, trees and bicycles have not been as much of a problem in the past, although done illegally, since the area hasn't developed, but he said that will change in the near future. In other business, planning commissioners. APPROVED a variance for Harvey Dick, 1252 Fourth St S.W., to construct an addition to his house two feet closer to the lot line than code allows. APPROVED a variance for Thomas Bowar, now of Brookings, to build an over sized garage near his future residence at 1910 Wisconsin Ave. S.W. There was op position from two of the neigh bors Wednesday night. Both variance applications now go to the Huron Board of Adjustment, which will most likely meet next week, at the call of the chairman. TABLED a home oc cupation permit application from Gary Nelson, 1308 Utah Ave. S.E., until he appears before the commission. Nelson requested the permit to sell seed corn at his residence. APPROVED county building permits for Roger Lee to build a basement under a mobile home in Theresa Township, and for Growers Ag Service to construct a 60-by-60 foot building in Coutts Outlets along Twenty-first Street S.W. in Clyde Township.
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Huron Daily Plainsman
Huron, South Dakota, US
Thu, Jul 13, 1978
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