The appearance of residential areas in Belleville are improving.
After getting off to a rocky, contentious start the North Central Regional Planning Commission as the determining agency for nuisance abatement in Republic County’s largest city has turned in a “thumbs up” assessment.
“If you have not driven around you really need to,” Carol Torkelson of the NCRPC told members of the Belleville City Council last week. “You will see amazing thing. People really do have pride in their properties.”

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