HUBBARD TOWNSHIP Zoning panel offers 3 proposals

A proposal would prohibit dangerous or nuisance animals within the township.
By TIM YOVICH
VINDICATOR TRUMBULL STAFF
HUBBARD -- The township zoning commission is proposing three additions to the regulations.
Township trustees will have a public hearing at noon Saturday at the township administration building to discuss them.
Trustee Fred Hanley said Wednesday that he and trustees Jonathan Dowell and Joseph Gleydura will then have 20 days to deny, accept or modify them.
This will probably be done at the February trustees' meeting.
Details of proposals
One of the proposals deals with dangerous or nuisance animals and another with transient vendors. The third proposal simply makes the community's land-use map part of the regulations.
Hanley said the nuisance proposal most likely stems from a case in which a woman allowed her hybrid wolves loose at night to hunt. There haven't been any recent problems with animals, he added.
The commission's recommendation would outlaw animals, reptiles, fish, birds or insects that bites, claw, injects venom, strangles or constricts prey, which could cause serious injury or death to humans.
It also applies to animals, birds and reptiles which emit offensive noises or odors. It also prohibits those that may over produce and ruin the ecology.
Another recommendation would require transients to get a vendor's permit before setting up a sales area or soliciting door to door.
Vendor problems
Hanley explained that the proposal comes as the result of a vendor selling furniture out of a truck at Truck World off Interstate 80.
The truck stop owner, the trustee said, had problems removing the vendor from his property.
Hanley said the proposal protects local businesses from being undercut because vendors don't have the overhead of businesses, such as insurance and utility costs.
The third proposal places the land-use map developed by the Trumbull County Planning Commission physically in the zoning regulations.
A picture rather than words can better explain the type of zoning in specific township areas, Hanley said.
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