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<br />provided a certain stability that many owners would not. She also <br />stated that due to the development of the downtown, this would <br />lend itself to a high priority use. Joel Beebe agreed with this. <br />Randy Haymaker, the Town's Economic Development Director, <br />then addressed the Board. Mr. Haymaker stated that one of the <br />prime needs and goals of the redevelopment of the downtown area is <br />to provide more parking. He felt that the bank was taking a major <br />step towards this by moving the parking of its employees away from <br />the center of town to help assist the parking problems in the <br />immediate downtown area. He stated that since this structure is <br /> <br />on a corner, the Board needs to make a decision as to whether or <br /> <br />not the property should mimick Indiana Street or Washington Street <br />and felt like in this case Washington Street would be the logical <br />choice. <br />Chairman Kimmel then opened this matter up to the Board. <br />Steve Edwards moved that the rezoning be recommended to the Town <br />Board of Trustees from Residential to Local Business. This was <br />seconded by Dave Barry and passed by a vote of seven in favor and <br /> <br />one opposed. <br /> <br />The next item on the agenda was the unsafe building ordinance <br />at 2 West Main. Mr. Beikman advised that there had been little <br />progress since the last meeting but that some painting had been <br />done. <br /> <br />The next item on the agenda was the buffer zone map report. <br />Signe Nicholson advised of the progress in the past two meetings <br />and further that the next meeting would cover the last of the <br />---- <br />business portion of the ordinance redraft and the industrial <br /> <br />-3- <br />