July 20 meeting
KEY ACTION Rezoning of land along South Baney Road, which is behind the Ashland County Fairgrounds, will be heard by the planning commission at the Sept. 7 council meeting.
DISCUSSION The request comes from a want to transfer the property to a high business district instead of a residential district, Mayor Matt Miller said. If the property is rezoned to a high business district, this will allow the future site to be used for the Homeward Bound Dog Shelter, an estimated 6,000-square-foot project.
The shelter would house dogs and serve as a kennel as well as having a retail aspect to it. Miller assured the audience and council that there still would be parking available for the fair and the entire rezoned property would not be used for the dog shelter.
Ashland Times Gazette
ASHLAND Mayor Matt Miller has had a vision of a redefined downtown since he first ran for mayor in 2017.
Miller had a plan put in place called the Targeted Action Plan. This would encompass a four-step program to help the city improve, with Main Street Plaza being a tentpole step.
A five-year plan in the making, Main Street Plaza on 80 E. Main St. will open June 12. [We] spent so much time in the planning stage, Miller said. It usually takes years to put together and finalize those resources.
The four-step program starts off with a downtown plaza, something the city lacked; a town square area where the community could gather for events. The project was called Main Street Plaza.