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FARMINGTON — The Zoning Board will consider two more zoning district changes and hold public hearings on those when they meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 11, at the Municipal Building.

Jon and Lois Bubier want to expand their business, Ron’s Market, and make some changes for parking, but without a zoning district change none of that can happen, Lois Bubier said Monday.

The area around the store is already a mix of businesses, including the market, Webber Oil and F.L. Butler Oil, but is currently zoned as village residential. The Bubiers are applying for a change to village business.

The businesses are grandfathered because they existed before zoning. Without a change, no expansion can be done, Bubier said.

Rezoning this area would “align the current retail business uses there with the appropriate zoning district, and allow future expansion of same within this district,” according to the application.

Along with a store expansion, the Bubiers would like to change the parking so that tractor-trailer trucks making deliveries to the store would unload on the back rather than the Franklin Avenue side, she said.

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Under the change, most of the block surrounded by Farmington Falls Road, Franklin Avenue and High Street would become a village business district, while village residential zones would remain to the north of the block on Maple Avenue and to the south below Franklin Avenue.

In a second application, Community Concepts proposes rezoning the district around Cascade Leisure Park from village residential to residential to more accurately reflect the use of the zone and to allow for any future development to the east of the park.

The zone includes the existing mobile home housing development known as Cascade Leisure Park. While the trailer park is grandfathered, it is within a zone, village residential, where trailers or mobile homes are not allowed.

The change to residential would make the trailer park conforming to the zone and allow for additional mobile home installations to the side and north of the existing park, according to the application.

While rezoning the districts allows for potential expansions, any proposed expansion is subject to approval by the town’s Planning Board.

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