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Show Discussion on R-l Zoning Law Lindon City Moving Ahead With At a combined meeting of the Lindon City Council and the Planning Plan-ning Commission Board held last Thursday evening, the proposed new R-l zoning ordinance for areas of Lindon was further discussed, with a suggested boundary outline considered. Planning Commission Chairman Kenneth R. Gillman presided. pre-sided. A motion was nxadie by Mayor Harold Keetch that I Dale Despain, Pi'ovo Planning Consultant, be authorized to study the suggestions and write a draft of the proposed ordinance. II was recommended that the ordinance be made to coincide co-incide with similar ordinances in other Utah Valley domm unities for uniformity. According to Chairman Gillman, all property owners who might be affected by the boundaries now being- studied, will be contacted individually by council or planning plan-ning board members. A public hearing on the controversy will be called possibly within the next ten days, Chairman Gillman stated, at which time the draft of the bill will be read and discussed. The purpose of the R-l Zoning ordinance as outlined by planning commission members would be to encourage better building in Lindon, Lin-don, and 'to: make f iniancing of new homes easier in the zoned area. Commission members stressed family gardens and animals raised for home use would be allowable within the R-l zone, but commercial commer-cial agriculture and stock raising would be prohibited. A limit would probably be set on ithe number of animals to be allowed! per family in the zoned area. At the present time Lindon has only two zones, residential -agriculture and commercial-residential. |