Being advised on appearance

City attorney tells Cheney council they must only consider evidence from hearings when deciding Parkside Commons rezone request

Cheney’s City Council received a little issue education at their March 28 meeting, courtesy of city attorney Stanley Schwartz.

Schwartz counseled council members on the “appearance of fairness doctrine,” in part to prepare them to conduct a hearing on a proposed rezone change for the Parkside Commons apartment complex. The owners of the land the proposed complex would occupy, Eastmark Corporation, want to change the zoning on the land bordered by North Eighth, Erie, Cedar and Oak streets from its current R-3 multifamily zoning to R-3H, multifamily high-density.

The change would boost the apart...

 

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