Old Home Town- 25 years ago

A sharply divided City Commission approved a site plan for an apartment development in the Bluffs area near Sixth and Iowa streets, overriding complaints by two commissioners that the plan was defective and that its approval could taint a pending lawsuit over the area’s rezoning. The Bluffs area is a hilly site just east of the intersection of Sixth and Iowa. The commission’s action cleared the way for construction of a 20-unit apartment complex on the southwest side of Fifth and California. Voting against the plan were Nancy Shontz and Tom Gleason. Voting for it were Mayor Marci Francisco, Barkley Clark and Don Binns.