Planning and zoning approves permit for animal shelter

The Planning and Zoning Commission has approved the next step in making a physical location for the St. Frances Animal Rescue facility a reality.

Last Thursday, the commission voted to grant a conditional-use permit for the nonprofit organization to put a building on Lot 4, Block 66 in the north portion of an industrial lot on Fifth Avenue, just off Bennett Street.

The approval is the latest development in the shelter's ongoing process to have a fixed location since it was created in 2006 and operated out of a home at 3.5 Mile Zimovia Highway. Later, it became a foster operation, where volunte...

 

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