MADISON COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) – Madison County Supervisor Gerald Steen, District 3, announced the Board of Supervisors will appeal the decision handed down last week by the Circuit Court regarding 350 acres of property near the future Reunion Parkway interchange. The property is owned by the Bozeman Family Limited Partnership.

In 2023, the petition to rezone the property from SU-1 special use district to C-2 commercial district came in front of the Board of Supervisors twice where both sides of the issue were heard and ultimately the petition was approved.

In addition, the rezoning was approved by the Madison County Planning and Zoning Commission in February 2023.

In its opinion, the Circuit Court said the rezoning amounted to “contract zoning.”

“I have read the Opinion & Order and I attended the hearing on the appeal  where our attorney and the Bozeman Family attorney fully explained—in open court and on the record–that there was never any deal to rezone the property in exchange for land,” said Steen. “The Bozeman family’s petition went through all of the proper channels for rezoning, and this Board made a decision based on the petition and nothing else – that is what the Board Minutes show. There is nothing in the Board’s minutes that would indicate there was ever any promise to rezone the Bozeman family’s property. We are looking forward to moving this matter through the appeals process.”