Summer Avenue rezoning process for church preservation gets started
City Council member Chase Carlisle, seen here in 2019, proposed the resolution and the 180-day demolition moratorium for the stretches of Summer involved. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian file)
The resolution approved Tuesday by the Memphis City Council for two areas along Summer is designed to make it more difficult to demolish a set of four churches for other kinds of development. It’s similar to a recent rezoning of part of Lamar Avenue but with a slightly different motivation.
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