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Planning and Zoning Commission Denies Boarding Home Request
The plans of a developer to turn a former nursing home and former abbey into a boarding house for veterans essentially has a monkey wrench in them.

That's after the Galesburg Planning and Zoning Commission voted last night to deny a zoning change request for 820 East Fifth Street, and to deny a variance that would have allowed it to have 42 residents instead of the mandated 12 for such a home.

Owner Doug Ball wants to turn the former Holy Rosary Abbey into what he says will be a home for veterans. But nearby resident Mark Chaney says he feels that's not the type of person that's been staying there now.

"From January, 1 2012 to last week September, 14 that numbers 33. 33 times the police have been called out to this address. I'd have to say because of this number there are plenty of problems for the police and at this time Mr. Ball on have 12 people there and he'd like 30 more."

Chaney gave the commission a petition signed by over a hundred residents urging the commission to deny Ball's requests. They claim their neighborhood has been made unsafe.

Ball says he's just trying to do what he's proposed. The Galesburg City Council, which has already okayed waiving portions of the city's building code, will get the final say on the zoning change, while the decision on the variance is final.
09 19 12 by Newsroom
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