Council Holds Special Session

Grove Developer Don VanHooser is a happy man at last. On the six attempt he successfully got city council approval to rezone his property on Carey Bay from C-3 to R-1S. It seemed that every time he came before Planning & Zoning or the council, there were scriveners' errors that caused the request to be submitted over again.
At a special city council meeting Friday morning, he finally obtained approval to build his development, which will include a putting green and 14 homes in his Bay Pointe subdivision.

In other action, council approved an ordinance closing two utility easements for the Rusty Pelican property on Honey Creek; approved taking $1,200 from the city's contingency fund to transfer to contributions to others for the Grove Chamber's GroveFest event and booth space at Joplin's Health Essentials event; and moved $2,000 from the city's contingency fund to contributions to others, for downtown merchants' promotion of Grove during the revitalization construction period, phase One.