Council declines planning commission recommendation, zones heavy industrial

Despite the unanimous recommendation of the city’s planning commission on March 16, the Kimball City Council voted to zone a tract of land at 4351 E. Highway 30 for heavy industry at its meeting last week.

The council zoned the property heavy industrial, with council member James Shields as the lone dissenting vote.

The land was originally purchased by Don Gregory and the late Bruce Evertson, located east of Kimball along Highway 30 and north of what was once Castronics. It is now owned by Evertson companies and Gregory.

“To make it perfectly clear that we don’t want to be zoned, but...