Menards asks City of Decorah to temporarily table action on its application

Menards real estate representative Tyler Edwards has asked City of Decorah officials to temporarily halt review of the company's plan to build a 209,000 square foot store on property along Old Stage Road.

City Administrator Chad Bird says Edwards contacted him Friday afternoon to announce Menards plans to work on a new site plan that would place the development closer to Old Stage Road, which would have a lesser impact on the floodplain.

Bird says any revised proposal from Menards would require a restart of the city's review of the proposal.  That would mean the new site plan and rezoning would be sent back to the city's Planning & Zoning Commission--which previously voted 4-3 against Menards' request for the property to be rezoned from floodplain to C-4 Shopping Center Commercial.

"It's his call as to what the next step will be," said Bird of Edwards' announcement that Menards is considering a revised proposal.