Milton City Council Decides on Fate of Historic Country Store
The public hearing will be held at 6 p.m. today at City Hall.
Milton City Council will decide the fate of the former Hardeman country store that its new owners want to reopen at their 6 p.m. meeting today. The council is meeting on a Wednesday because Monday was Washington's Birthday, a holiday. Staff's recommendation is to allow the rezoning, but to require the applicant to go through normal procedures for sign approval. The applicant wants to paint a large sign on the side of the store. The applicants want the slightly more than half-acre site rezoned to historic district so that they can use the existing 1,179 square foot building as a country store.The applicant said in a revised letter of intent that, “Beginning in the late 1940’s to the early 1950’s, the store building at thenortheast corner …
