Members of the Austintown Township Board of Trustees met on Monday to discuss the possibility of rezoning three parcels that originally housed a bar in the township.
Board Chairman Bruce Shepas told 21 News that the board voted unanimously to rezone the three parcels along South Four Mile Run Road from a commercial B2 property to a business B1 property.
The change would mean that the former Zodiac Lounge & Grill property is now zoned for professional, non-retail services as a B1 property, instead of a general retail space where customers could purchase goods and services under a commercial B2 property.
Shepas says that this would effectively remove the property as a site for a bar, for example.
The rezoning of the Zodiac Lounge & Grill had been debated since December 2024, when trustee

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