Owen City Council Hears Zoning Committee Report
Thursday, August 1st, 2019 -- 8:46 AM
-The Owen City Council heard the Zoning Committee Report at their meeting last week.The Zoning Committee held a joint meeting with the Planning Committee and it voted to leave the northwest corner of the Countryside Estates an R1, Single family dwelling, while changing the southwest side of the estate to an R3 to accompany duplexes while allowing single family dwellings. The east end of the estates will be zoned R5, estate dwellings. The council then approved a Planning Committee recommendation to sell Lot #9 of the Countryside Estates to Jim Bohl for $1 with the stipulation the building be completed within a year. Before the next few items on the council’s agenda were discussed, a representative of Cedar Corporation announced that on behalf Governor Tony Evers and Secretary Joel Brennan, the Wisconsin Department of Administration has awarded up to $1,000,000 to the City of Owen for their Community Development Block Grant for Public Facilities project, the 5th Street Project.
The council also approved a final pay request for construction on East 10th Street. It was stated that, due to an error, the construction company was asking for an additional $1,027.50 bringing the final pay request from McCabe Construction to $30,316.08, not $29,288.58 as previously approved. For the 2019 Streets Rehabilitation Project, it was stated they be split up into three different contracts as previously discussed, to give the city more options on the dollar amount of the project. The council approved the recommendation of the Cedar Corporation to accept the bid submitted from Haas Sons, Inc of Thorp for the 2019 Streets Rehabilitation Project, Contract 3, in the amount of $449,479.40. The contract for this project may be viewed at City Hall.
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