The Benton Courier

City Council to discuss mini storage moratorium, golf carts

By Destin Davis ddavis@bentoncourier.com

The Benton City Council will consider an ordinance to allow the use of golf carts on certain city streets when it meets on Monday.

The ordinance states that golf carts can be operated on any city street where speed limits are equal to or less than 25 miles per hour. The vehicles will not be allowed on city streets which are also designated as federal or state highways.

Golf carts are defined in the ordinance as any self-propelled vehicle that is designed for the transportation of players or maintaining equipment on a golf course, has a minimum of four wheels and is designed to carry not more than four people, including the driver.

The proposed law requires that operators of the carts are licensed and age 16 or older.

The discussions about allowing golf carts on city streets began late last year in the community service committee.

During a meeting in December, Alderman Steve Brown said the issue came up because there have been complaints of people using golf carts for deliveries in Downtown Benton.

The proposed law states that “for a period of one year from the passage of this ordinance, the City of Benton shall not accept, review or process any application, site plan or any other official action having the effect of allowing or permitting the construction of additional self-storage facilities.”

It also requires the Planning Commission, the city administration and the city attorney to bring the city council’s proposed regulations that would require storage units to be approved by conditional use, which means to construct new storage units, they would have to be approved by the city council.

Currently, storage units are allowed to be built in certain zones with just the approval of the planning commission.

The meeting starts at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall,

114 South East Street. It will also be live-streamed from the city’s official Facebook page.

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