DELAWARE SITE FIGHT: CHESWOLD WAL-MART HEARING POSTPONED DUE TO TYPO
Typos delay hearing for Wal-Mart near Cheswold [Delaware Online]
CHESWOLD – Kent County officials have delayed a hearing on a Wal-Mart and strip mall because the wrong date was listed for the hearing.
The hearing was rescheduled for Tuesday but some postings still listed Sept. 23 as the date. Kent County commissioners didn’t learn of it until just before Tuesday’s meeting.
County Planning Director Sarah Keifer says the scheduled meeting was shifted and officials didn’t update this project’s application. County Attorney William Pepper says holding the meeting would have put any decision on shaky legal ground.
When planning staff checked, officials say they couldn’t prove the right date was posted on all listings and commissioners postponed the meeting.
The hearing for a 225,000 square-foot Wal-Mart off U.S. 13 was rescheduled for Oct. 21.
Posted by Luke West on Thursday, October 02, 2008
