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Thursday, July 29, 2021 File photo If you’re hoping to get a conditional use permit (CUP) for tourist lodging in a residential area, you’ll be waiting for a while. On Monday night, the Eureka Springs City Council approved a nine-month moratorium on CUP applications for R-2 and R-3 zones. The council first heard from residents who live in a subdivision where another resident has allegedly been operating illegal tourist lodging. Ferguson Stewart said the neighborhood was quiet when he moved in 2012. “I’ve lost my quiet neighborhood,” Stewart said. “It’s now a runway. There shouldn’t be...

Thursday, July 29, 2021 Bill Ott Eureka Springs City Council member Bill Ott has been appointed to the Arkansas Municipal League’s Advisory Council for Economic Development for 2021-2022. The purpose of the advisory council is to allow municipalities to get together and discuss their mutual programs and advise the municipal league’s staff and executive committee as to the types of services and policies they would like to pursue. “I’m just very honored that I would be selected to be a representative on that and more importantly to be representing my community in economic development becau...

Tuesday, May 4, 2021 The Eureka Springs City Council addressed the planning commission’s new vision plan on Monday night. The council heard from planning commission chairwoman Ann Tandy-Sallee, who said the commission spent the last year and a half reviewing and updating the vision plan. The vision plan includes possible actions the city can take to solve problems, Tandy-Sallee said, and covers why certain projects haven’t been completed. “We don’t have the money,” Tandy-Sallee said. “Eureka is very unique. We’re not going to be moving streets.” Tandy-Sallee said the commission is wo...

Thursday, April 29, 2021 File photo The Eureka Springs City Council addressed the planning commission’s new vision plan on Monday night. The council heard from planning commission chairwoman Ann Tandy-Sallee, who said the commission spent the last year and a half reviewing and updating the vision plan. The vision plan includes possible actions the city can take to solve problems, Tandy-Sallee said, and covers why certain projects haven’t been completed. “We don’t have the money,” Tandy-Sallee said. “Eureka is very unique. We’re not going to be moving streets.” Tandy-Sallee said the co...

Tuesday, March 30, 2021 File photo The Eureka Springs City Council heard from University of Arkansas representatives about alternative methods of policing on Monday, March 22. Kim Stauss, chair of the university’s school of social work, presented information on community policing with her colleague Mark Plassmeyer. Stauss said the school of social work has been working with the Fayetteville Police Department to gather quantitative and qualitative data on the types of police work that social workers can help with. “Every community is different and we just wanted to … be a resource for you ...