New bank in town? Well, sort of …

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

On Mon­day, Jan­u­ary 28, Sylvia Weber, Weber Archi­tec­ture, approached mem­bers of the Vil­lage of Sun­bury Plan­ning & Zon­ing Com­mis­sion and received zoning’s nod of approval to place a free­stand­ing Fifth/Third Bank ATM in the Sun­bury Mills Plaza park­ing lot.

“Bank­ing cen­ters are becom­ing smaller,” Weber said. “Peo­ple are bank­ing on the Inter­net and with cell phones. ATM’s are the wave of the future.”

Weber said Fifth/Third Bank has an agree­ment with plaza owner Vince Romanelli to place the ATM in the park­ing lot.

Mem­bers of the zon­ing com­mis­sion approved the request, send­ing it along to Sun­bury Vil­lage Coun­cil where the request appeared as Ordi­nance 2013-04 and is sub­ject to three read­ings and a 30-day statu­tory wait­ing period until, if approved, the ordi­nance would become effective.

The other Weber in the Weber Archi­tec­ture part­ner­ship, Jerry Weber, rep­re­sented Fifth/Third Bank at coun­cil dur­ing the first read­ing of 2013-04. He noted that the near­est full serve Fifth/Third Bank is eight miles away in Westerville.

“The ATM would take up six park­ing spaces in the area of the park­ing lot that’s the last to fill up,” Jerry Weber said. “It sits on a 4-foot by 12-foot con­crete pad, is bolted down with high-strength steel, and is sur­rounded by mul­ti­ple bollard’s.”

He said the upright ATM unit has a pre-engineered canopy built for high wind loads; there are secu­rity lights in the canopy, and no land­scap­ing that would pose a secu­rity risk.

Sunbury’s con­sult­ing engi­neer Wes Hall, CT Con­sul­tants, said he reviewed the con­struc­tion draw­ings and the ATM’s con­struc­tion, lane width and curb­ing all look fine; that he would issue a let­ter not­ing engi­neer­ing approval.

In other busi­ness, Hall also noted that the town hall roof inspec­tion is com­plete and he asked about a pos­si­ble com­bined meet­ing of the Ser­vices Com­mit­tee and the Parks & Safety Com­mit­tee to dis­cuss town hall roof­ing options.

It was also reported that three tem­po­rary speed bumps would soon be installed on Fair­land Drive to slow traf­fic in the neigh­bor­hood lead­ing into Big Wal­nut Mid­dle School.

Coun­cil mem­bers also reap­pointed Tim Gose to another three-year term on the zon­ing commission.

Sunbury’s web­site is located at < sunburyvillage.com >.
 
Sun­bury Vil­lage Coun­cil meets the first and third Wednes­day of every month at 7:30 p.m., third floor coun­cil cham­bers, Sun­bury Town Hall. Coun­cil com­mit­tees meet one hour before reg­u­larly sched­uled coun­cil ses­sions. All vil­lage coun­cil and coun­cil com­mit­tee meet­ings are open to the public.

Posted by Gary Henery on Feb 6 2013. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.