During the March 5 Taylor Town Council meeting, Planning and Zoning administrator Allen Davis presented a rezoning request for a multi-family residential parcel to build two duplexes on Papermill Road, just west of the Speedway gas station. The Planning and Zoning Committee recommended approval and the council approved the rezoning unanimously.
Also presented by Allen Davis, was a request to change the town ordinance definition of medical marijuana. “We have the state statute that changed where they allow industrial hemp to be grown and our current ordinance has in its definition that medical marijuana includes industrial hemp in its plant definition. We need to revise that definition to separate the two plants so we would be changing the medical marijuana definition and adding an industrial hemp definition with the state statute,” explained Davis.
This was the first reading of an ordinance amending the current definition of medical marijuana and it was approved by title only but a second reading is still required before the change goes into effect.
The Town of Taylor is still waiting on the approval of the industrial business park by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ). No action was made at this meeting, but it will be discussed at next month’s meeting.
Taylor resident John Williams, who lives on Country Bear Lane near the outskirts of Taylor spoke up during the call to the public asking for help maintaining his rough, rural road. Six residents live down the road and there are many holes on the road that make living there difficult at times.
Williams, who has been a part of the community for 34 years and the other residents have been maintaining it themselves, even going so far as to purchase gravel, transport and grade it themselves about four years ago.
Williams proposed that the town council approve a purchase of some gravel or crushed asphalt to fix the road again, saying that the residents themselves would haul and grade it again. The council questioned if Country Bear Lane was a city road and responded with a promise from Town Manager Gus Lundberg to review the extent of the council’s jurisdiction regarding the boundaries of publicly maintained roads.
Betsyann Wilson, program director of NPC Friends & Family for Northland Pioneer College (NPC) gave a brief financial report regarding Arizona Gives Day, a 24-hour, annual, statewide online fundraiser run by the Arizona Alliance of Non-profits to be held on Tuesday, April 7. Any donation made will increase the opportunity for NPC Friends & Family to earn bonus money from the Arizona Alliance of Non-profits. Since NPC Friends & Family started participating in Arizona Gives Day six years ago, it has finished in the top four of statewide non-profits and gained an additional $3,000 to $4,000 in bonus money each year. A non-profit can register for their own page on the website where people can donate and any non-profit can be put into the running. at azgives.org/npcfriendsfamily.
