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(KAIR) -- A member of the citizens group opposing the proposed rezoning efforts of Benedictine College gave Atchison City Commissioners suggestions earlier this week as they consider their vote on the proposal.
Rick Coronado lives next to part of the re-zoning area, where the plan is to put a new baseball and softball field on agricultural land recently donated to the school by the James Asher family.
During the public forum portion of the meeting, he suggested Commissioners make a field trip to the proposed area before making their vote on June 3rd.
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Plans are currently unclear where parking for any future sporting events at the complex will be, which could be up to several hundred yards away from the grandstands.
The measure to rezone the land from agriculture to planned development district was recommended to City Commissioners by Atchison Planning Commissioners six to zero May 1st with an amendment that Benedictine officials provide more information for a future site plan review before Planning Commissioners before the change goes into effect.
Nearly a dozen from the citizens group and their legal counsel representing them spoke out against the rezoning at that meeting, while only school President Steve Minnis was the only person to publically speak in favor of the proposal.
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