Sheila Martin honored

GENTRY — With a short agenda, the Gentry Planning and Zoning Commission discussed elements in an ordinance proposal which would allow for swinging signs within the city.

Suggested by the commission for inclusion in the ordinance to be proposed to the city council for approval would be allowing businesses to hang swinging signs of up to eight square feet with a limit of one per business entrance and allowing corner businesses to have an additional sign on the side streets.

The signs would be required to have a clearance of 80 inches or more from the ground or sidewalk and could not extend over the roadway.

Also proposed was to allow fixed signs of the same size to extend out from the building but require clearance from the ground or sidewalk be a minimum of eight feet.

The proposed ordinance will be brought back to the commission on September 15 for a possible recommendation to the council.

The commission ap- proved adding required signature lines to the preliminary and final plat checklist for subdivisions within the city and adding a provision for the installation of streetlights to the preliminary plat checklist.

The issue of sidewalk requirements in subdivisions was tabled until the September meeting. Discussions are expected to include adding a requirement that sidewalks be completed down at least one side of each street in a subdivision so that there are not gaps in the sidewalk when lots remain unsold for a time or no homes are built on a lot.

Photo by Susan Holland Steve Mitchael (left), chairman of the Gravette historical museum commission, poses with Sheila Martin at a reception in her honor Saturday at the museum. Martin had served as hostess to visitors at the museum for almost 12 years before leaving...