ETNA GREEN – Etna Green Town Council Tuesday gave their blessing for a property on Walnut Street to be zoned commercial.
Jesse Bubb said he is interested in purchasing 107 Walnut St. and turning it into a laundromat. There currently is rental space in part of the building. On tax forms, the building is classified as residential. He would like to classify the building as commercial in everything.
He said he is planning on updating the building to get it where it needs to be.
Council President Keith Claassen said he believes the downstairs of the building used to be a laundromat.
Councilman Jason Hanes said he likes the idea but has heard of power issues business owners in that area have had. Bubb said he won’t be using the same type of power type as those businesses, but will upgrade everything to what the laundromat needs.
The council gave their OK for the business to be classified as commercial.
Hanes said Bubb will still have to go through the county to get the business rezoned as the town does not have a zoning board of its own and defers to the county’s decisions. The council simply gave Bubb their blessing Tuesday.
Clerk-Treasurer Patti Cook said she’ll send a letter to the county about it today.
In other business, the council:
• Learned from town attorney Nick Jacobs a lawsuit has been filed earlier this week against a parent whose children allegedly breaking into Heritage Park’s concession stand and destroying flowers at Remembrance Park.
• Learned the opioid settlement money of $1,810.73 the town received is now in the hands of the Etna Township Fire Department to use for things like equipment.
• Decided to look into possibly doing leaf pickup