On Tuesday, Moultrie City Council fielded two calls for rezoning. Both passed, one with no opposition and the other with a split vote of the short-handed council.

Attorney Billy Fallin — representing Earl F. Tucker, Tracy R. Tucker and Lyndasu B. Crowe — came before the council, seeking the rezoning of 1401 S. Main St.

The land is currently occupied by Uniform Outlet and Gift Gallery and was zoned R-2 (Two-Family Residential District). The owners wanted to change that to C1R (Neighborhood Business District).

The “R” in C1R stands for “restricted” because the Planning Commission recommended two restrictions be placed on future use of the land: It may be used only for office or retail businesses, and the size of the building may not be increased.

The property has been a retail business since 1962, when it was a drug store, according to Daniel Parrish of the city Planning Office, but for some reason it was zoned residential when zoning was put in place 10 years later.

Fallin told council the property’s zoning would make it hard to sell. Any business that bought it would have to get a special use permit to go in there, no matter what it was.

William McCarthy, who lives across the street, spoke against the rezoning, citing concerns with traffic and with changes to the character of a neighborhood that is primarily residential.

At that point, McCarthy said, Main Street is two lanes going north and one going south. The inside north-bound lane continues through a nearby traffic light while the outside lane must turn right. He said he is already concerned when he must turn left from that inside lane into his driveway because a hill limits view of approaching cars, and if a business at that location increases traffic the danger will be even greater.

Fallin said the restrictions approved by the Planning Commission would address those concerns, especially by limiting the size of the building to its current “footprint.”

City Councilwoman Lisa Clark Hill moved to table the request since presentation equipment wasn’t available to show exactly where the land was, but the motion died for lack of a second.

Councilman Cecil Barber then moved to accept the Planning Commission’s recommendation. He was seconded by Councilman Ron Wilson. Barber, Wilson and Councilwoman Susie Magwood-Thomas voted in favor while Hill voted against the move. Councilmen Daniel Dunn and Angela Castellow did not attend the meeting.

In the other zoning decision, the council rezoned 310 Port St. S.E. from R-2 (Two-Family Residential) to C-1 (Neighborhood Business District) without opposition.

In other action, the council accepted the low bid to repair the roof of the Municipal Annex, a bid of $31,428 from Albany Sheet Metal Inc. of Albany.