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Article: CITY COUNCIL TABLES NORTH SIDE DEVELOPMENT DISPUTE
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- Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current)
- Article date:
- November 11, 2008
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A longtime Evansville developer who plans to buy a 27-acre tract
of the Engelbrecht Orchard on Evansville's North Side said he would
not build apartments there if that would relieve neighbors' concerns
over the future of the property.
The dispute between Dan Buck and the Orchard Parke Neighborhood
Association took center stage at Monday night's City Council
meeting.
Buck asked the council to rezone part of Connie Engelbrecht's 800
Christ Road orchard from commercial to single-family and multiple
residence.
Association President Jeffrey Whittinghill, speaking for most of
the people seated in a packed council chambers, strongly opposed the
rezoning, saying it would allow Buck to build an ...