A Springfield alderman is upset that the owner of one of the city’s most troubled properties has received a city permit to build a new business nearby.
Alderman Cory Jobe tells the State Journal-Register that the permit should not have been issued to the owner of the Bel-Aire Motel, who was hit last year with hundreds of code violations on that property and slapped with $141,000 in fines.
But city officials say that original order was overturned on appeal, leaving the city with no basis to turn down the permit request.
The Bel-Aire’s owner plans to build a resale shop just north of the residential motel.
