The Starkville Planning and Zoning Commission granted three conditional use requests and approved a plat Tuesday which will yield 73 new apartments.
Sixty-nine of those will go up in western Starkville, west of the Highway 25 Bypass and one mile south of Highway 12, where developer Herman Ashford plans to develop a townhouse complex on a 19-acre site.
The area will remain commercially zoned with the exception of Ashford”s multi-family dwellings. In 2008, Ashford received permission to begin work on a planned hotel on the property, but the project fell through.
The Planning and Zoning Commission voted 5-1, with James Hicks voting in opposition, to allow Ashford the conditional use.
All conditional use requests granted Tuesday were stipulated to begin work toward development , not necessarily construction, within six months or the conditional use designation would be lost.
The commission unanimously approved the final plat for a three-unit building at Court Square Condominiums and the enclosing of a back porch at a house on Col. Muldrow Drive to install an additional bedroom and bathroom.
The construction of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints at 413 Abernathy Drive, a general business district, was also unanimously approved
Jason Browne was previously a reporter for The Dispatch.
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