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BAY ST. LOUIS, MISSISSIPPI
SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 1983
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Council bucks consultant?s ordinance correction advice
. By WAYNE DUCOMB JR.
The Bay St. Louis City Council at a Thursday night meeting bucked the advice of a consultant hired to correct erroneous city zoning ordinances in refusing to place a commercial classification on US-90 property owned by renouned jazz clarinetist Pete Fountain.
At a previous council meeting, the officials accepted 52 out of 53 recommendations by Jules Lagarde, a Bay St. Louis architect, which he formulated to correct discrepancies in zoning regulations of the City Planning and Zoning Commission, formed in 1964.
TheJaWed Lagarde recommenda-
7	tion^fJoTlj) which suggested the council classify property northwest of the intersection of the highway and Second Street and the now vacant Fountain lots south of US-90 and on Beach Boulevard, as commercial land, w/ ?"
But the council Thursday night prompted by a motion offered by Ward Two Councilman James Thriffiley agreed to only designate the Second Street land as commercial, but toTeave the Fountain property as a residential area for multi-family dwellings.
Fountain is reportedly planning to build condominiums on his highway property at the foot of the Bay of St. Louis bridge which would yymply with the multi-family residential (R-3). classification the council maintained.
Thriffiley said the minutes of the then Bay Board of Commissioners appr'ov-ing the commercial designations were >not signed and contained errors ip t Fount5Ia~property lot numbers?
mendation by Ron Murray Consultants, Inc. of Bay St. Louis allowing the firm to seek a Small Cities Community Development Jobs Bill Block Grant.
In addition, a Tuesday hearing at 6 p.m. is scheduled at City Hall to obtain citizen comments regarding the propos-
ed project.	$.'?'?
Ron Murray, company _ president, said Friday that the project will allow the hiring of about 10 unskilled Workers for 12 to 18 months to perform gas line renovation and drainage work.
COUNCIL?PAGE 2A
Planning and Zoning Commission to meet
By JUNE M. HEYDT The Planning and Zoning Commission will meet Tuesday, Aug. 9 to review a new up-to-date zoning map that will be presented by architect J ules Lagarde.
C.C. McDonald, commission chairman, said, ?If we don?t find anything wrong with the new zoning map, no discrepancies or errors, and it is approved, this will clear the deck to set a date for a public hearing on the beach front ordinance.?
The beach front ordinance prohibits commercial construction on the beach front except for the property owned by the Bay-Waveland Yacht Club, the
American Legion, and the Central Business District, which includes the area from the old Merchants Insurance Building to the north side of the Maurice Colly property.
The one exception is Pete Fountain?s property which is already zoned highway commercial C-3, said McDonald.
McDonald also noted that the ordinance does not mean that the yacht club, or any of the other commercially zoned property owners can build whatever they want to. Anything built on the beach must be approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission and the Bay St. Louis City Council.
The miqjites ot the commissioners ? meeting in a single motion direct rezon-
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Murray indicted