Florissant Planning and Zoning Approves Requests for Pet Cemetery

The Florissant Planning and Zoning Commission had its hands full Monday night with two requests for a pet cemetery at #115 and #7 N. Highway 67.

The commission recommended approval for each request but not without its share of questions and additional motions.

Rose Darnell, the petitioner, first asked the commission for a rezoning of the both properties from a R-4 to a B-3 zoning district. Darnell planned to expand from its current 2.6 acres to a total 4.6 acres with the additional land. She said it would allow for more grave sites for several more years, and the cemetery would become the largest in the area.

Building Commissioner Philip Lum explained to the commission that this is an unique site as its rezoning would allow for more than 100 other permitted uses and 50 special permitted uses.

Commissioner Lee Baranowski said he’s concerned that the rezoning could allow for any of those other kinds of businesses to be placed on that property down the road. In addition, Commissioner Richard Weller shared similar sentiments and said that the limited entrance and exit to the property could case problems. The property has access through the back of the

The commission passed the request with the condition that in obtaining the special use permit, the pet cemetery be the sole use for the property.

In the special use permit request that immediately followed, the commission recommended approval of the request with the condition that if the pet cemetery leaves, then the special use permit would become null and void and the rezoning would revert back to R-4.

Technical Difficulties

Most of the rest of the agenda for the meeting had to be continued due to problems with the recorder.

The digital recorder ran out of space, and no one was available to assist with the recorder, so the commission put it on hold until things could be resolved.  

The next meeting is May 21.