July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Request to re-zone property moves forward (05/05/06)
Jay/Portland Building and Planning Commission
By By RACHELLE HAUGHN-
There could be one more place to shop near downtown Portland this summer.
A local board voted Thursday evening to recommend that a property on South Meridian Street be re-zoned, potentially making way for a new business. The change will go to the Portland City Council for final approval.
Cindy VanSkyock asked for a lot located at 403 S. Meridian St. to be rezoned to highway service from neighborhood business so she could open a shop in a renovated house.
She and daughters Missy Puterbaugh and Courtney Paro plan to open Remember When on Aug. 18.
“We’re going to have rugs, lights, lamps and lots of neat things,” VanSkyock said. They also plan to offer scrapbooking supplies, antiques and home decor items.
VanSkyock could have requested a special exception in a neighborhood business district, said commission president Vicki Tague.
The rezoning request was made instead because the area near the house is currently mixed and Jay/Portland Building and Planning administrator Bill Milligan is trying to get the area all rezoned as highway service to eliminate spot zoning, she said.
Before the commission voted, Milligan said he all of the adjacent property owners were notified of the map change request and none objected.
Also Thursday, commission members recommended another property be rezoned, making way for the Dunkirk Fire Department to hold bingo.
Maurice W. Alsip, owner of the Jay Garment Antique Mall, 500 S. Meridian St., requested the property be rezoned to highway service from industrial. The fire department wants to hold bingo tournaments in the rear of the building.
Milligan said the lot has been zoned industrial since Jay Garment was in the building. Bingo is not permitted in an industrial district, he said.
No objections from adjacent property owners were received, he said.
In other business, Milligan said he hopes to have the new zoning map — which shows how all properties in the city and two miles out of the city limits are zoned — ready for the commission to review by the next meeting.
Milligan and two commission members have been working on the map for about two months.[[In-content Ad]]
A local board voted Thursday evening to recommend that a property on South Meridian Street be re-zoned, potentially making way for a new business. The change will go to the Portland City Council for final approval.
Cindy VanSkyock asked for a lot located at 403 S. Meridian St. to be rezoned to highway service from neighborhood business so she could open a shop in a renovated house.
She and daughters Missy Puterbaugh and Courtney Paro plan to open Remember When on Aug. 18.
“We’re going to have rugs, lights, lamps and lots of neat things,” VanSkyock said. They also plan to offer scrapbooking supplies, antiques and home decor items.
VanSkyock could have requested a special exception in a neighborhood business district, said commission president Vicki Tague.
The rezoning request was made instead because the area near the house is currently mixed and Jay/Portland Building and Planning administrator Bill Milligan is trying to get the area all rezoned as highway service to eliminate spot zoning, she said.
Before the commission voted, Milligan said he all of the adjacent property owners were notified of the map change request and none objected.
Also Thursday, commission members recommended another property be rezoned, making way for the Dunkirk Fire Department to hold bingo.
Maurice W. Alsip, owner of the Jay Garment Antique Mall, 500 S. Meridian St., requested the property be rezoned to highway service from industrial. The fire department wants to hold bingo tournaments in the rear of the building.
Milligan said the lot has been zoned industrial since Jay Garment was in the building. Bingo is not permitted in an industrial district, he said.
No objections from adjacent property owners were received, he said.
In other business, Milligan said he hopes to have the new zoning map — which shows how all properties in the city and two miles out of the city limits are zoned — ready for the commission to review by the next meeting.
Milligan and two commission members have been working on the map for about two months.[[In-content Ad]]
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