Ball to consider deannexation requests

By JIM BUTLER

Sometimes town life and country life mix, sometimes they don’t.

The Ball Town Council will consider adopting ordinances at its Tuesday evening session that address that.

Introduced in May, the three deal with requests for deannexation of parcels at owners’ request.

Kevin McVay, who has extensive holdings in the area, seeks to take two tracts, one on Williford Road, out of the town.

Elizabeth Moreau White wants the same for a site on Paradise Road.

Mixed activity – farming, ranching, commercial and residential – occurs in the region.

To the ear of many cattle mooing in the morning or evening or both is the sound of a way of life, to others it is an annoyance.

And advantages of being within municipal boundaries early on can become less so as development expands.

Better out than in, some decide, and ask for that as has been the case in some previous Ball boundary contractions.

A development example, though not in the neighborhood mentioned above, is a rezoning petition filed by MaMas Bakery.

Owners seek to have 5915 Hwy. 165 changed from R-3 Residential Multi-Family to B-1 Commercial, allowing additional parking and business expansion.

The Zoning Committee will hold a 6 p.m. public hearing on June 25.

A public hearing will be held tomorrow evening, June 16, at 6:30 on a proposal to amend the police pay scale to provide a vehicle stipend to the chief to use personal vehicle in lieu of the town’s leased vehicle.

Changes adopted in May to the town sewage ordinance are now in effect.

Facing what has become an increasing financial burden, officials adopted rules and regulations relative to past-due balances.

They are now considered delinquent and subject to collection processes on reaching $240.

Liens, delinquent charges, denial of permits and/or licenses, utility reconnection delay are all possible consequences until the debt is collected or payment agreement reached.

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