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Article: Planners oppose salvage yard
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- The Topeka Capital-Journal
- Article date:
- March 3, 2003
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By Mike Hall
The Capital-Journal
An auto salvage yard at 417 S.E. 13th shouldn't be approved
because of its proximity to Williams Magnet School, the Monroe School
and the Freedom Pathway Trail.
That is the recommendation of the Topeka-Shawnee County Planning
Agency to the Topeka City Council. The council will be asked to
approve an application Tuesday night from Jerry L. Penner to operate
a salvage yard on a 1.41-acre site there.
Penner notes his lot is across the street from another salvage
yard in an industrial area. But planning director David Thurbon
argues that is just another reason to deny the application. Salvage
yards shouldn't be concentrated in one area, he wrote in a report to ...