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$2.00 RETAIL SATURDAY, 10.22.16IIBUCYRUS, OHIOIIBUCYRUSTELEGRAPHFORUM.COMII Telegraph-Forum BUCYRUS The Bucyrus Planning Commission decided Friday that it supports the concept of allowing outdoor dining on city sidewalks. Despite that support, the measure remains far from complete. vote of approval means the Bucyrus Platting Committee must take up the matter to determine whether the full city council should vote to send the idea to the board of zoning appeals. The largest hurdle preventing Bucyrus businesses from either providing outdoor dining or setting up outdoor sales areas is a federal law the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that regulates the width and slope of a sidewalks. John Rostash, the code-enforcement officer, said every sidewalk must provide at least a 5-foot-wide area for pedestrians, 3 feet of which much have less than a 2-percent grade.

Rostash said the sidewalks in downtown Bucyrus are 13 feet wide, but most of them are sloped by more than two degrees. Since those sidewalks were built before the ADA was updated, the city is exempt from adjusting them. Any new construction atop those sidewalks would require the project to find a way to provide aflatter area for pedestrians. Temporary structures, Rostash said, would not require the slope of the sidewalks to be corrected. The majority of those present for the meeting spoke in favor of allowing the downtown businesses to use the walkways, and questioned Rostash on various aspects of the rule.

They learned that ADA laws are broken rather frequently throughout the city. the First Friday we had was illegal, is that Councilman Mark Makeever asked city Law Director Rob Ratliff. is Ratliff responded. Rostash said it will be the zoning responsibility to work out specific details of the measure. our job as the planning commission is just to keep the ball asked Mayor Jeff Reser.

Rostash confirmed, saying a simple vote in favor of allowing the sidewalks to be used was necessary. have to do Reser said. have to make this a destination for people in our community and people from out of Dennis Teynor moved that the commission allow city council to take steps to allow conditional use of the sidewalks. The measure passed unanimously. 419-563-9225 Twitter: SIDEWALK DINING GETS SUPPORT ZACH TUGGLE REPORTER CRESTLINE After a lifetime of service to his hometown, Crestline fire Chief Mike Weisman has decided time to hang up his helmet.

Weisman announced he will retire Nov. 19 after 32 years with the fire department. But in a sense, been a part of the department much longer than that. I was a younger kid, my uncle was on here as a firefighter in the Weisman said. started coming over here then and I got to know the guys.

when I knew I was interested in He graduated from Crestline High School in 1981, and took a position in a local factory. By 1984, there was an opening at the department for a volunteer firefighter. Weisman took the position. like the aspect of trying to make a difference for Weisman said. good when able to help somebody help our Weisman stayed with the department as a part- time firefighter until 1988, when he was promoted to afull-time position.

He quit his job at the factory, and looked back since. Each of 16 firefighters is cross-trained as paramedics, and others as EMTs. Weisman himself became an EMT in 1984, and a paramedic in 2002. was one of the best things I did was getting my Weisman said. really made a Weisman was promoted to the rank of captain in 2006, and chief in 2010.

Over the years, Weisman has enjoyed spending time in the department with his many firefighters. Together, they made a lifetime of memories that Weisman cherishes. Some of those memories include actions that allowed other people to create more of their own happy memories. have been times where saved Weisman said. were other times where go in and knock a fire down before it gets ZACH Crestline fire Chief Mike Weisman is retiring Nov.

19 after serving the department for 32 years. CRESTLINE FIRE CHIEF WEISMAN RETIRING 32 years of service to his hometown will end on Nov. 19 ZACH TUGGLE REPORTER CLEVELAND Hillary Clinton told Ohio voters that Donald Trump is threatening democracy by not promising to accept the results of the presidential election. know, in our country, the difference between leadership and dictatorship. And the peaceful transition of power is something that sets us Clinton told a crowd of about 1,600 at the Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland.

In the final debate, Trump said he would keep everyone on whether he would accept the results of the presidential election. He is reserving the right to challenge the outcome if he loses and feels the election was will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential Trump said in Delaware Thursday. I This week, both Clinton and Trump reached out to their core Ohio voters: Clinton in Cuya- Clinton: Trump not accepting results JESSIE BALMERT AP Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets members of the audience after speaking at a rally at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland Friday. CHILLICOTHE Ohio's prison overcrowding issue has prompted officials to move death row for the second time in less than five years. Ohio's death row will be moved from the Chillicothe Correctional Institution to the Toledo Correctional Institution in the "near future," said JoEllen Smith, spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections.

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