CRESTLINE ― A zoning issue is holding up the sale of a Crestline property and John Sharp came to the Crestline Village Council meeting Monday evening to try to resolve the issue.
According to Sharp, he and his sister are trying to sell their late brother’s property.
“The property is zoned business which means if something happens to the house, it cannot be rebuilt on the property,” Sharp said.
Sharp said he has been in contact with Village Administrator John Rostash but the closing of the sale of the property had been scheduled for May 10.
“We are researching to see how the property is zoned. It had been annexed into the city, but we are not sure if the zoning was changed or not. It appears that is zoned business,” Rostash said of the property located on Middletown Road.
Council member Gene Toy said that there may be a provision that when a property is annexed, it can stay under the zoning it had been previously.
“We need to resolve this as soon as possible for them,” Toy said.
Sharp said the only business that ever existed on the property was a beauty shop his mom operated in the 1980s.
The real estate agent involved in the sale of the property said the other issue is that there are two street numbers for the property but one parcel.
Rostash said he is doing everything he can to resolve the situation.
The council passed a resolution as an emergency to allow Rostash to advertise for bids for the first phase of the Main Street Waterline Project.
The council meetings will be held once per month throughout the summer and will begin at 6:30 p.m. on June 17, July 15 and Aug. 19.