UALR’s Benton location closed in 2019, leaving the building vacant, its future in question. Benton City Council will discuss Monday night whether to purchase it.
The City of Benton will host a series of meetings on Monday, beginning in the afternoon, including one for public input. The times are below for the meetings on Monday, July 26th, in Council Chambers at 114 S. East Street.
- 4:30 – Planning & Zoning Public Hearing to discuss a change to the zoning matrix of the Commission’s Zoning Ordinance. The proposed change would make “storage” developments, such as mini-storage, RV/Boat storage, or climate-controlled storage, be classified as a conditional use in the C3 Commercial Zone.
- 5:30 – City Council Agenda meeting
- 5:50 – Report on UALR building structure
- 6:00 – City Council meeting
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The lengthy agenda for City Council meeting includes the following items. (See full agenda with document attachments in the embedded PDF?and be sure to navigate the PDF for all the pages)
- Swearing in new Police Officers,
- Exempting Amplify Fest from Ordinance 29 of 2007,
- Increasing Local Fire Pension,
- Open account for Benton American Rescue Plan Act,
- Purchase of UALR Benton property for $425K,
- For more information about the ownership and status of UALR Benton building, visit https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/ua-little-rock-benton-campus-14566/
- Purchase of Police vehicles,
- Grant for PD through STEP,
- Grant for PD through EBMJA,
- Acquiring tennis services for Parks & Rec,
- Fire services for Riverside Park,
- Create a fee for non-emergency calls that FD takes,
- Additional rules for addresses,
- Amending Ordinance for zoning on storage unit development,
- Rezoning 505 Allgood from R2 to R7,
- Accepting maintenance of streets etc
- on Shady Lane subdivision,
- and within the North Shore at Hurricane Lake subdivision,
- Grant for streets & drainage through CART STBG,
- Amend Ordinance 46 of 2020 for PD & FD,
- more
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