By Rusty Nixon Correspondent
PLYMOUTH — The city of Plymouth will have a new zoning ordinance.
Final details were hammered out in a marathon session of the Plymouth Common Council with the council accepting nearly all the suggestions of the Plymouth Plan Commission who put together the document.
In the end, the council took the suggestions of the Plan Commission in all areas of dispute except one. Residents will be able to place two cars with “For Sale” signs on their property, instead of just one.

The most debated item on the list was enforcement of code violations within the two mile zoning boundary. The Plan Commission requested that the city take over enforcement in the area and a compromise solution for the Commission was to suggest taking out language involving weeds and grass, but leaving in language regarding trash and debris.
Councilman Don Gardner brought a motion to have the enforcement language struck from the document all together.
“I don’t believe the city should be involved in code enforcement in the two mile zone,” said Gardner in making the motion. “I’ve never believed it was the city’s responsibility it’s the county’s.”
Plan Commission Presi-dent Doug Feece said that he felt that even though the residents of the area don’t pay taxes, it was in the best interest of the town for the city to be involved with code enforcement in the area.
“We’re the first thing that people see when they come into the city,” said Feece of the area of which he is a resident. “The two-mile zone is the future of the city.”
Councilman Mike Delp said that he didn’t understand “…how we can have any say so in the two mile zone without taking that responsibility.”
Gardner and Wayne Smith were the dissenters on the vote that replaced the language that makes the city responsible for enforcement in the two mile zoning boundary.
Overlay districts were also a major area of disagreement. The Commission felt that the districts were necessary to have specific control of downtown areas to insure that the right mix of residential to commercial maintained their vitality.
Originally against the districts, the council voted for them this time around.
While the city accepted the ordinance, the Plan Commission will continue to work on the new zoning map.