REVERSED: Judge upends approval of planned development in western Little Rock.


Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen
today reversed the Little Rock Planning Commission’s approval of a proposed residential development known as Mergeron Court.

The Wingate Neighborhood Association and others sued over the approval of a 12-home preliminary plat for two acres between Wingate and Kaylin Hills near the 8000 block of West Markham across from Brady Elementary.

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The judge said the proposal hadn’t included an engineering analysis required for flood-prone land. He said there was a potential for harm if the project was done without the engineering.

He held the Planning Commission action to be arbitrary, reversed it and sent the case back to the commission.

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Here’s the judge’s opinion.

KARK/Fox 16 reported earlier on the neighbors’ complaints.

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