Board Of Aldermen

By Randy Bell Clinton will now have a parks superintendent and a private company handling landscaping and grounds maintenance at Traceway Park. The Board of Aldermen voted November 15 to create the superintendent position and to hire a Louisiana company for the Traceway work. “The park superintendent, I think that’s a position that’s definitely needed,”…

Ricki Garrett, Alderwoman at Large   In our meeting on Tuesday, November 15, the Board heard from Public Works Director, Phillip Lilley, who shared again with the Board the challenges he is facing maintaining a full contingent of workers in the department.  Although it is difficult to lose any employee, it is particularly hard to…

By Ricki Garrett, PhD, Alderwoman at Large   The Board of Aldermen met for their first meeting in November this week, and, for the most part, it was a fairly routine meeting. In its first action, the Board denied a request for a Dimensional Variance from the owner of 108 Keith Lane to add a…

By Ricki Garrett, PhD, Alderwoman at Large The Board of Aldermen are dealing with a great deal of significant issues currently, and the meeting Tuesday night (October 18) highlighted some of those issues. Following the approval of the consent agenda, the Board heard a report from our Police Chief, Ford Hayman. The good news is…

By Randy Bell   As the City of Clinton considers whether to rezone all of its farmland, it’s refusing requests to allow individual pieces of property to be reclassified as agricultural. Rob Logan’s 143 acres at Williamson Road and Pinehaven Road had been rezoned residential estate (R-E), because the previous owner had planned to build…

By Randy Bell Angry farmers crowded into a Board of Aldermen work session October 17 to fight a rezoning proposal which would push all agricultural land in Clinton into a residential classification. A Comprehensive Plan the City adopted in 2018 includes a map which shows all land previously zoned agricultural (A-1) moved into expanded residential…

By Randy Bell   Those who have ideas about what a new nature-oriented park in Clinton should include will get their chance to voice those opinions during a town hall-style meeting November 10. The consultants hired to develop an 84-acre “destination park” will assist the City with the community visioning workshop at the Wood Activity…

By Randy Bell It’s a complaint you often hear from people visiting Clinton’s Olde Towne District – it’s sometimes hard to find a place to park. But the City has a plan to create about fifty additional spots. And there’s a reason it’s being done with a sense of urgency. “We’re just trying to get…

By Randy Bell A proposal to be considered by Clinton’s Planning and Zoning Review Board later this month could shrink—or eventually eliminate—the City’s farmland footprint. It would rezone all agricultural (A-1) land in Clinton to residential estate (R-E) to allow for the construction of more housing developments. Clinton’s Director of Community Development Roy Edwards says…