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BY KATE THOMAS
The Eagle Staff Writer
Council College Station Cit
subdivisionproved apreliminary
with r plat Monday night
eventuallmifications that could
to a suit.Y leave the city liable
After much deliberation the
council unanimously approved
the Glade East preliminary
subdivision plat.
McGraw had
ex usedchirrmaself earlier and Dr.
C• H. Ransdell had been P
an excused absence becaus~evof
the number of foreign visitors
in town,
The plat had already been
through two emotional meetings
e act Pl
at
of the planning and zoning
commission:
Opponents of the subdivision
live on one side of Bee Creek
and the subdivision is planned
for the other side. Buford Craig,
BCS Investment Corp., is the
developer and is listed as
owner.
At one point, however, Mayor
D• A• Andy Anderson said it
was obvious Craig represented
someone else in -the matter.
Opponents of the development
have listed as their objection
the fl theng that would result
from creek
further develo overflow if
along the pment is allowed
ahead channel. It has
Y been a problem.
Their chief objection is fo
development of multifamily
dwellings in back of them, The
area is thought zoned for
partments.
onehe question Became a legal
after Navasota attorney
James Bond, retained by the
residents of Glade Street, ex-
plained to the council that
Zoning Ordinance 363 was in_
valid because it referred to
blocks four and five and there
was not a legal description ~n
record at the courthouse of the
two blocks.
He maintained, therefore, rhat
the ``ordinance was ineffective
to change any of Glade because
{See COUNCIL, Page li)
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