City council denies funeral home application

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. The long-running effort by local businesswoman Evelyn Hagan to get a property on North Jefferson Street rezoned and its designation changed on the comprehensive plan in order to build a funeral home on the site came to a conclusion on Tuesday evening, Jan. 6. Or at least it came to a conclusion for the time being. After months of back-and-forth on the issue and several changes to the plan by the applicant in order to address some of the concerns voiced by s