The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-06-26
Amendment TO
Zoning Ordinance
Is Approved
If Passed by Council
Will Permit ClYmer
To Complete Motel

An amendment to the coming
ordinance changing the area be-
tween the Delaware and Column
bus roads and east of Cherry st.
to a class two residential zone
was approved by the Village Zon-
ing Commission at a special meet
ing Saturday night.
Under this amendment such
business as apartment houses,
motels, trailer camps for not
longer than a period of 80 days,
and other similar commercial re-
sidential enterprises r allowed.
This would make it possible for
the motel erected by L. L.. Clymer
at Five Points to go into opera
ton following the approval of
this amendment by the Council.
A petition to change a tract of
land at Five Points from the re-
sidential to the commercial zone
was unanimously rejected by the
Marysville Village Council dur
ing its regular meeting in the
city building Thursday night. APP
proximately 80 citizens from the
Five Points area were present at
the meeting, most of them being
opposed to the plan.
L. L. Clymer, owner of the
West jefferson Sand and Gravel
Company, the Ready-Mix Cement
plant, and other local business in
terests, has presented the petition
after constructing a modern mo-
tel between the Delaware and
Watkins I'd.
Feared Other Types
The motel itself would have
been an improvement in the
neighborhood but residents fear
ed that another type of business
might be installed there in the
future after the zoning change
was enacted.
Mr. Clymer had invested con-
siderable money in the motel
project before presenting his pc
tition to the council and was now
faced with the prospect of con-
verting it into an apartment
house which would be in line
with the residential coming Or
dinance.
The Council disclosed that it
was considering a change in the
coming ordinance that would per-
NIT certain more desirable types
of business to be constructed in a
given place with others being ex-
Guided.
The proposed amendment
would set up two types of changes
from the residential to CONNER
cial zone. One would include the
establishment of a business such
as a motels, stores, funeral homes,
etc. Such business as saloons,
dance halls, and places serving
beer and liquor would be barred.
Want Electrical Code
Under this change Mr.. Clymer
would be allowed to operate the
motel as he proposes to do and
there would be no danger of an
other undesirable type of busin-
ess moving in on the lot in the
future.
Fire Chief Kelvin Payne and a
group of local electricians were
present and discussed the posi-
bility of setting up a regulated
system of electrical work here.
The Council also moved to ad-
vertise for bids on the proposed
S. Plum st. bridge. Cost of the
projects was placed at an esti-
mated $4,000 by the council.
Routine matters passed on in
cluded the purchasing of six
trash cans to be placed in the
business district of the village,
the placing of curbs on the Fourth
and Fifth st. sides of the Legion
Park entrance to the Boulevard,
and moving of weeds on vacent
lots by city workers. In the latter
case, the property owners would
be billed for the work. Eleventh
St., near the hospital site, will al
so be improved